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Talks & Presentations
Conferences, Podcasts, and Meetups.
Red Head Pod
When Nobody Owns Quality - Making Testing Responsibility Explicit in Open Source Projects.
Who Becomes Obsolete: The SDET or the Test
Most costly AI-assisted testing failures aren't caused by poor execution - they're caused by delegating the wrong decision. This talk introduces Silent Delegation, a four-question Decision Test, and the Delegation Matrix it produces to help teams decide whether a testing activity should be delegated, augmented, verified, or retained.
Finding What Your Tests Miss - Property Based Testing in Python
An introduction to property based testing in Python using Hypothesis - how defining invariants and mathematical properties catches edge cases that example based tests consistently miss, especially in numerical and scientific Python code.
From Ad-Hoc Prompting to Agentic Engineering: Latest Trends in AI
The first session of the Ministry of Testing AI Chapter, featuring Dragan Spiridonov and Oleksandr Romanov on the shift from ad-hoc prompting to agentic engineering, the building blocks of AI agents, and what quality means for non-deterministic AI systems.
AI Follows the Prompt. Community Expands Quality Thinking
How AI tools are changing test case generation and automation, and why testing communities - not tools - are what push testers from a test-case mindset toward thinking in risk, system behavior, and quality.
When Nobody Owns Quality: Making Testing Responsibility Explicit in Open Source Projects
Examining governance docs and contributor guidelines from Linux kernel, Kubernetes, Apache and OpenStack, this talk argues that investing in CI alone doesn't clarify who owns test health - and offers four practical steps for making testing ownership explicit.
Test Analytics Without Decision Is Just Reporting
A lightning talk about how test analytics should drive decisions instead of becoming passive reporting dashboards.