Measuring quality requires many questions to be answered. The most obvious ones may be: “What is quality?”, but also “How can we measure it?”, “Which metrics are most accurate?”, “Which are most practical?”.

In this talk, I share some general motivations for measuring quality. I review commonly used metrics that claim to measure quality, I rate them with regards to how they may be helpful or harmful to achieve actual goals. I give some examples how the weaknesses of one metric might be…

UI testing is an essential part of software development. But the automation of UI tests is still considered too complex and flaky.
This talk will cover the "state of the art" of UI testing with an overview of tools and techniques. It will be shown which kind of representations are used by today's test tools and how the addressing of elements in the UI is done.
In addition, the role of artificial intelligence in the different approaches is shown and a prediction of testing tools of the future is…

At first glance, testing AI systems seems very different from testing “conventional” systems. However, many standard testing activities can be preserved as they are or only need small extensions.

In this talk, we give an overview of topics that will help you test AI systems: Attributes of training/testing/validation data, model performance metrics, and the statistical nature of AI systems. We will then relate these to testing tasks and show you how to integrate them.

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IT is always changing ... In this talk I'll do some crystal ball gazing from two perspectives. At heart, I’m a tester. For two years I’ve also been a CEO. I’ll look at what factors are at work and what kinds of effects will they have on how we work and the roles of testers and software professionals.

Alongside musings about the future, I’ll talk about concrete activities on an individual and company level to best prepare ourselves for this nebulous future.

Target Audience: Everyone
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Requirements engineering like testing require balance of value and risk. Agile requirements engineering and testing with test-driven requirements engineering (TDRE) balances project risks and cost. Clear advantage: Requirements are understandable, testable, and directly applicable as test case. Lead time and costs in testing are reduced by up to thirty percent.

This presentation at OOP 2023 will practically introduce to agile requirements engineering and test with TDRE. A case study…

As developers, our job is to deliver working software. With the shift to CI/CD and the move to the cloud, the need to have the right feedback at the right time only increases. There are many ways that testing can help us with that. Not only can testing help us verify our solution and prevent us from breaking things, it can also help us design our software, find flaws in our architecture and come up with better solutions. In this talk I will highlight some of the many ways that testing can help…

In this session I’ll examine some of the things that can go wrong when organisations jump headfirst into micro-service architectures without understanding the potential pitfalls.

I'll explain contract testing from the ground up. You'll learn how it can decouple micro-service dependencies during development, allowing your teams to work effectively. And I'll describe sophisticated, free, open-source tooling that helps integrate contract testing into your software lifecycle, giving you the…