A4Q Global Testing Summit 2025

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09:00

Introduction by the A4Q Testing Summit Team

09:05

Erik van Veenendaal
Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi): Test Maturity in the Financial Domain

Leanne Howard & Tafline Ramos
Evolving from Testing to Continuous Quality Engineering

Nishan Portoyan
When AI Becomes Your Testing Colleague: Agentic AI in QA

Gitte Ottosen
Quality coaching – a true Swiss army knife

Erhardt Wunderlich
Qualität ist wichtig – aber was brauchen wir in Zukunft dafür?

10:00

Lilia Gargouri
Driving Quality in Enterprise Software:
The Power of Model-Based Automation

Maryna Didkovska
Testing by Developers in AI-enabled SDLC

Iosif Itkin
Test Oracles for AI-driven Testing:
Using AI to Develop Digital Twins

Clara Ramos González
Management is a Two-Way Street: Navigating Without Crashes

Alexander Frenzel
Das Testfall-Monster im Griff: Konzept zur Erstellung von KI-generierten Tests

11:00

Olivier Denoo
Life in Plastic

Anna Miazek
Internal Audit with TMMi:
Diagnosing the Issues or Driving Out the Demons?

Mesut Durukal
A Practical Demonstration of Human-AI Collaboration in Bug Analysis

Florin Manolescu
What is your testing mindset?

Mario Winter
Softwaretest in sequentiellen, hybriden, agilen oder “eigenen” Vorgehensmodellen: Wo stehen wir heute?

12:00

Anne Kramer
Reduce testing debt? Yes, but not like this!

Jan Sabak
Simulating DDOS attacks

Goce Simonovski
Integrating AI with A/B testing

Stephen Paul Platten
Stoicism & Software Testing
(Ancient Philosophy Meets Modern Methods)

Jürgen Beniermann
KI-generierter Code – Fluch oder Segen?

13:00

Julian Cambridge
Software Testing: Sequential vs Iterative

Hiral Dave
Industrial Revolutions – What, When, Where and How it impacts Software Development Life Cycle?

Mehmet Engin Saçan
Harnessing AI Agents with REST Assured for Next-Level Test Automation

Alexander Bremer
How the Whole Team approach from ISTQB aligns with the DevOps teams approach

Carsten Weise
Effizient Testen durch Automatisierung: Der neue TAE 2.0

14:00

Wim Decoutere
What’s your Test Design Debt? Avoid the Inevitable!

Martijn Goosens
Shifting Left using BDD

Matthias Hamburg & Adam Roman
The Future of Black-Box Testing

Richard Seidl
From Software Tester to Quality Wizard – Mastering the Art of Software Quality

Marius Dreier
Sicherheitsanalysen im Lebenszyklus der Funktionalen Sicherheit nach ISO 26262 – Synergien mit Cybersecurity nach ISO/SAE 21434

15:00

Michaël Pilaeten
The awkward truth of software quality

Fabian Streitel
Everyone wants to shift left, but our tests are just too slow!

John Kurowski
Balancing Act: The Dual Impact of AI and Automation on Sustainability

Ecaterina Irina Manole
Beyond the Code: Empowering Developers with Testing Essentials

16:00

Bogdan Rakočević
Synergizing TMMi and CI/CD: Continuous Test Process Improvement in the DevOps Lifecycle

Dmitrij Nikolajev
Codeless vs Code-Based Approaches in Test Automation: Benefits, Challenges, and Practical Applications

Marcel Veselka
AI-powered Test Automation: Building Bots in Playwright

Fran O’Hara
Leveraging LLMs for Agile Test Management

Matthias Hamburg
Die Zukunft des Black-Box-Tests

17:00

Rik Marselis
Celebrating 30 years of TMAP

Jeroen Mengerink & Michiel Keij
Living architecture: A quality view

Elena Treshcheva
AI Testing Explainability: Enhancing ‘AI for Testing’ with ‘AI for Mapping’

Arnika Hryszko
Quality is Not a Department, It’s a Responsibility – Shift Left in Team Practice

18:00

Sammy Kolluru
Shaping the Future of Software Testing Innovation and its Impact

Jean-François Riverin
Software Bioengineer: Crafting and Cultivating Living Software

Bruno Legeard
AI Agents in Testing: The Future is Here, But Can We Trust It?

Siddhant Sunil Wadhwani
The Era of Intelligent Testing – Transforming Testers into Skilled SDETs

19:00

Ecaterina Irina Manole
Ctrl + Alt + Adapt: Debugging Change Resistance in QA with PQ strategies

Valentina Biankini with Tihana Horvat Milković
I did it my Agile way

Brynley Scully
Testing AI for Bias: Because Even Robots Can Be Racist, Sexist and Full of Prejudice

Prapasri Kajorndech, Kunlanan Peetijade & Natkritta Chokhiranchat
KBTG: Leading-Edge of Testing: KBTG Quality’s AI

20:00

René Rohner
Keyword-Driven Testing with Robot Framework and Playwright

Mariam Abdellatif
The Ugly Truth about Selenium; Risks, Challenges and Unrealistic Expectations

Joel Oliveira
Yes, AI will take YOUR job!

21:00

Conclusion by the A4Q Testing Summit Team

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