Presentations on software testing, agility and teamwork

You’ll most often find me sharing experience that I’ve had in our projects, or that I’ve gained working with customers. I like to talk about agile processes, testing, test automation, design for test automation, usability and communication. I focus on how we’ve dealt with conditions that aren’t always ideal and I like to present pragmatic approaches.

2025

• OOP, “Leadership observability: explaining our workings for ourselves and others” [Leadership, Communication]

2024

• Agile Testing Days, “Help, I jedi-d too hard and became a leader!” with Huib Schoots [Leadership, Quality, Agile]
• HUSTEF, “Leadership Observability” [Keynote, Leadership]
• Hamburg Business Club, “Do we really need an app for that?” [Agile, Minimalism]
• OOP, “Predicting the Future of Quality, Testing and Teams” [Quality]

2023

• Agile Testing Days Germany, Open Space Moderation
• Agile Testing Days Germany, “A Fighting Chance – Learning the Art of Conflict Resolution” with Sophie Küster [Keynote, Communication]
• Agile Testing Days Germany, “Minimalistic development: testing hypotheses by shipping and observing” with Tim Winselmann [Agile, Minimalism, Development]
• Java Forum Nord “Maximales Lernen durch minimale Programmierung: Erfolge, Fehler und Lessons Learned” with Tim Winselmann [Agile, Minimalism, Development]
• GreaTEST Quality Convention, “What’s going to happen? (Potentially wrong) predictions about the future of quality, testing and teams” [Quality]
• Agile Testing Days Open Air “Unit Testing and TDD from the tester perspective” [Testing, Unit Testing]
• Agile Testing Days Open Air “Experience Test Driven Development for Testers!” with Oliver Bangert [Workshop, Testing, Unit Testing]
• Agile Testing Days Open Air, Lean Coffee Moderation, with Janet Gregory
• OOP, “Exploratory Testing for Everyone” [Workshop, Testing, Exploratory Testing]
• Customer workshop, “Appreciation and Feedback” [Keynote, Leadership, Agile, Communication]

2022

• SeaStar Conference, “Looking into the future: The shape of testing, teams and the world” [Quality]
• Agile Testing Days, “Quality from the CEO Perspective” with Michael Mlynarski [Quality, Leadership]
• Agile Testing Days, “A Journey to Sustainability” [Sustainability]
• Agile Testing Days, Open Space Moderator
• HUSTEF, “Exploratory Testing for Everyone” [Workshop, Exploratory Testing]
• HUSTEF, “Comb shaping for developers, testers and everyone” [Keynote, Quality, Teamwork]
• Eurostar, “Drawing Lines Around the Fog: The Shape of Testers, Teams, and the World” [Keynote, Quality]
• Agile Testing Days USA, “Software investigation and exploration” with Huib Schoots [Workshop, Exploratory Testing]
• Agile Testing Days Open Air, “Question Askers” [Keynote, Communication, Personal Development, Leadership]
• Agile Testing Days Open Air, “Supercharge your exploratory testing” with Huib Schoots [Workshop, Exploratory Testing]
• Agile Testing Days Open Air, Lean Coffee Moderator

2021

• BCS Edinburgh, “Quality Archaeology, Quality Archaeology: Learning From The Past To Understand The Present and The Future” [Testing, Quality]
• Agile Testing Days, “Unit Testing and TDD from the tester perspective: how to learn, practice and even contribute” [Testing, Unit Testing]
• Agile Testing Days, Open Space Moderator
• Test Istanbul, “Quality Archaeology, Quality Archaeology: Learning From The Past To Understand The Present and The Future” [Keynote, Testing, Quality]
• TACON, Event Moderation
• Customer impulse talk “Agile Mindset” [Keynote, Agile]
• Java Forum Nord, “Quality Archaeology, Quality Archaeology: Learning From The Past To Understand The Present and The Future” [Keynote, Testing, Quality]
• Ministry of Testing Meetup, “Becoming an Agile People Manager” [Leadership, Agile, Management, Communication]
• Agile Leader Day, “Mentale Gesundheit für agile Teams und Organisationen” [Agile, Teamwork, Value, Health, Management]
• Zukunft und Führung Meetup “Agile Führung: Fürsorge, Fordern und Fördern für sich selbst und andere”, [Agile, Management, Leadership, Communication]
• ASQF Meetup, “The role of testers in AI projects” [Testing, AI]
• Ministry of Testing Meetup, “Unit Testing and TDD from the tester perspective: how to learn, practice and even contribute” [Testing, Unit Testing]
• German Testing Days “Geht’s auch kleiner? Mikroheuristiken im explorativen Testen” [Exploratory Testing, Microheuristics] (Best Talk Award at the Conference)
• Ministry of Testing Exploratory Testing Week, Ask Me Anything on Exploratory Testing
• ASQF Net week, “Agiles Testmanagement: Gibt es das überhaupt und wenn ja, wie?” [Testing, Agile]
• The future of women in agile panel discussion. Video here.
• BSI Grundschutztag, “Alles ist verbunden, alles ist kaputt: Wege aus dem Qualitätsdefizit bei vernetzten Systemen unter Berücksichtigung des IT-Grundschutzes” [Testing, IoT, IT-Security, Information Security] Video here (from 1h15m)
• Breakpoint, “Whole team holistic quality: for product, processes and people” [Agile, Testing, Teamwork]
• OOP, “Wird schon schiefgehen: Qualitätssicherung und die Rolle von Testern im IoT” [Testing, IoT]
• OOP, “Enabling Whole Team Quality as a Tester in an Agile Team” [Communication, Teamwork, Workshop]
• OOP, “Becoming an Agile People Manager” [Leadership, Agile, Management, Communication]

2020

• Agile Testing Days Germany, “Agile Leadership” with Ashley Hunsberger [Agile, Leadership, Management, Communication]
• Agile Testing Days Germany, “Badgile: the gameshow” Keynote with Huib Schoots and Bart Knaack[Agile, Testing, Keynote]
• IoT Meetup Hessen, “There may be trouble ahead: the future of quality in a networked world” [Testing, IoT]
• German Testing Days “Unit Testing und TDD für Tester” Workshop with Zeb Ford-Reitz [Testing, Workshop]
• German Testing Days “Geht’s auch kleiner? Mikroheuristiken im Explorativen Testen” [Exploratory Testing, Microheuristics]
• Testbash Netherlands “Experiencing the Highs and Lows of Unit Testing and Test Driven Development (for Testers and Developers)” Workshop with Zeb Ford-Reitz [Testing, Workshop]
• Testbash Netherlands “Learning through Exploration” Talk with Zeb Ford-Reitz [Testing, Exploratory Testing]
• Breakpoint, “Whole Team Quality: Product, Process, People” [Agile, Testing, Teamwork]
• Forum Digitale Transformation, “There may be trouble ahead: Die Zukunft von Qualitätssicherung in der vernetzten Welt” [Testing, IoT]
• Agile Center of Excellence, “Agile Führung: Wie geht das für Manager und Mitarbeiter?” [Leadership, Agile, Management, Communication]
• Online Testing Conference, “Nurturing a Healthy Culture” Panelist with Lena Wiberg, Lisa Crispin and Gitte Klitgaard [Leadership]
• Java User Group Hamburg “Wird schon schiefgehen: Qualitätssicherung und die Rolle von Testern in IoT” [Testing, IoT]
• Building IoT “Wird schon schiefgehen: Qualitätssicherung und die Rolle von Testern in IoT” Keynote [Testing, IoT, Keynote]

2019

• Agile Center of Excellence “Ab vom Hamsterrad: Stress und mentale Last in agilen Teams und Organisationen” [Agile, Testing, Teamwork, Value, Health]
• Java User Group Ostfalen “Whole Team Quality: Gemeinsam gewinnen oder gemeinsam scheitern?” [Agile, Testing, Teamwork]
• Agile Testing Days Germany “Becoming an agile people manager” [Agile, Management, Leadership, Communication]
• Agile Testing Days Germany “Agile Mindset Workshop” Workshop with Thomas Garus [Agile, Workshop]
• Eurostar webinar series “Jedi Mind Tricks for Testers” with Huib Schoots [Agile, Testing, Teamwork]
• ASQF Net Week “Vom Herumklicken zum Expertentester: die Macht des Explorativen Testens” Webinar [Exploratory Testing, Microheuristics]
• Java Forum Nord “Whole Team Quality: Gemeinsam gewinnen oder gemeinsam scheitern?” [Agile, Testing, Teamwork]
• Dual Career Network, Niedersachsen “Agile Organisations and Open Space” [Agile, Testing, Teamwork]
• Ministry of Testing Masterclass “Exploratory Testing: What are Microheuristics and how can you find and use them?
  Webinar [Exploratory Testing, Microheuristics]
• Agile Testing Days USA “Bad-gile: the gameshow” Keynote with Huib Schoots and Bart Knaack [Agile, Testing, Keynote]
• Agile Testing Days USA “Software investigation & exploration – Supercharging your value” Workshop with Huib Schoots [Exploratory Testing, Workshop]
• Romanian Testing Conference “The power of exploration” [Exploratory Testing, Keynote]
• Romanian Testing Conference “Exploratory Testing Tutorial: From basics to heuristics” [Exploratory Testing, Workshop]
• Romanian Testing Conference “Learn to become a public speaker” Workshop with Ard Kramer, Jim Holmes, Dan Ashby and Petra Bouskova [Workshop, Public Speaking]
• Nordic Testing Days “Explicit exploring using testopsies and microheuristics” [Exploratory Testing, Microheuristics, Workshop]
• Nordic Testing Days “Why should exploratory testing even be the subject of a keynote?” Keynote [Exploratory Testing, Microheuristics, Keynote]
• Cucumber Podcast May 2019
• Empathetic Management, Podcast with CTO Coffee March 2019
• CraftConf “Heuristics and hunches in Exploratory Testing” [Exploratory Testing, Microheuristics, Live Exploratory Testing]
• NewCrafts, Paris “Exploratory Testing for Everyone” with Thomas Garus [Exploratory Testing]
• ASQF Quality Day NRW  “Wie sehen die Tester der Zukunft aus?” [Testing, IoT, Keynote]
• CukenFest “Whole Team Quality: In the same boat or up the creek?” Keynote [Agile, Testing, Teamwork, Keynote]
• European Testing Conference “Heuristics and hunches in Exploratory Testing” [Exploratory Testing, Microheuristics, Live Exploratory Testing]
• Test Talks Podcast “How to listen to your tests” [Testing, Podcast]
  • Podcast link
• OOP “Exploratory Testing for Everyone” Workshop [Exploratory Testing, Workshop]

2018

• ASQF Quality Night Hamburg “Wie sehen die Tester der Zukunft aus?” [Testing, IoT, Keynote]
• Testing Portugal “Whole Team Quality: In the same boat or up the creek?” Keynote [Agile, Testing, Teamwork, Keynote]
• Testing Portugal “Leadership for testers in agile teams” Workshop [Communication, Teamwork]
• Agile Testing Days Germany “Get off the hamster wheel and start adding value!”. Keynote with Huib Schoots [Agile, Testing, Teamwork, Value, Keynote]
• Agile Testing Days Germany “Exploratory Testing Challenge” [Agile, Testing, Live Exploratory Testing]
• Agile Testing Days Germany, “Time to Lead – Communication and Enablement for Testers in an Agile Team”. Workshop with Zeb Ford-Reitz [Communication, Teamwork]
• Eclipse Con Europe, “What do the testers of the future look like?” [Testing, IoT]
• Testbash Manchester “Jedi Mind Tricks for Testers” with Huib Schoots [Agile, Testing, Teamwork]
• ASQF Testing Day Niedersachsen “Wie sehen die Tester der Zukunft aus?” [Testing, IoT]
• Agile Testing Days USA “Get off the hamster wheel and start adding value!”. Keynote with Huib Schoots [Agile, Testing, Teamwork, Value, Keynote] 
• Agile Testing Days USA, “Storytelling for agile (testing) professionals.”. Workshop with Huib Schoots. [Agile Testing, Teamwork, Communication, Workshop] 
• German Testing Days “Dear future me…” [Testing, Passion, Growth, Career, Community, Keynote]
• Expo QA “Let’s stop talking about Testing, let’s start thinking about value” Keynote with Huib Schoots [Agile, Testing, Teamwork, Value, Keynote] 
• Guest on Quality Heros Podcast (German) “Wie kann „Quality From The Beginning“ in agilen Projekten erreicht werden?” May 18th 2018
• Testnet Netherlands, “Testopsy – dissecting your testing” Workshop with Huib Schoots [Testing, Agile Testing, Live Exploratory Testing]
• Testnet Netherlands, “Let’s stop talking about Testing, let’s start thinking about value” Keynote with Huib Schoots [Agile, Testing, Teamwork, Value, Keynote] 
• Romanian Testing Conference “Dear future me…” [Testing, Passion, Growth, Career, Community]
• Testbash Netherlands, “Time to Lead – Communication and Enablement for Testers in an Agile Team”. Workshop with Zeb Ford-Reitz [Communication, Teamwork]
• Landing Festival, “What agile teams can learn from World of Warcraft” [Agile, Teamwork].
• European Testing Conference, “Exploratory Testing in Action” [Testing, Live Exploratory Testing]
• OOP, “How to stop hating your UI tests”  [Automated Testing]

2017

• Agile Testing Days, “Testopsy – dissecting your testing” With Huib Schoots [Testing, Agile Testing]
• Eclipse Con Europe, “UI test automation using the Jubula API: the why, the how and the what”  (Tutorial) With Markus Tiede [Automated Testing, Tool Presentation]
• Eclipse Con Europe, “How to stop hating your UI tests” [Automated Testing]
• Agile and Automation Days Poland, “Whole Team Quality: In the same boat or up the creek?” Keynote. [Agile, Testing, Teamwork, Keynote] 
• Testbash Munich “Dear future me… a letter to myself about testing, the universe and everything” [Testing, Passion, Growth, Career, Community]
• As a part of agile consulting at a Scottish University, “What teams can learn from World of Warcraft” [Agile, Teamwork, Testing].
• Guest on Testers’ Island Discs, Episode 1, September 2017. Podcast Link
• Otto QConf, “Quality from the product owner perspective”  [Agile Testing, Teamwork, Communication, Product Owner]
• XP 2017 “How to stop hating your UI tests” [Automated Testing]
• Romanian Testing Conference “Once Upon a Time…”. Keynote with Huib Schoots. [Agile Testing, Teamwork, Communication, Keynote]
• Romanian Testing Conference “Storytelling for agile (testing) professionals.”. Workshop with Huib Schoots. [Agile Testing, Teamwork, Communication, Workshop]
• XPConf “How to stop hating UI tests” [Automated Testing]
• AgileTD Mondays “How to stop hating UI tests” [Automated Testing]
• European Testing Conference, “Will your tests stand the test of time? Patterns for automated UI tests” [Automated Testing]
• OOP, “Sharing the quality responsibility in agile teams”. [Agile Testing, Teamwork, Communication]
• OOP, “Quality from the PO perspective – from 6 weeks to one-day release phases” [Agile Testing, Teamwork, Communication, Product Owner]

2016

• Agile Testing Days Germany, “Once Upon a Time…”. Keynote with Huib Schoots. [Agile Testing, Teamwork, Communication, Keynote]
• Agile Testing Days Germany, “Storytelling for agile (testing) professionals.”. Workshop with Huib Schoots. [Agile Testing, Teamwork, Communication, Workshop]
• Eurostar, “Growing a Company Test Community: Roles and Paths for Testers”.  [Testing, Teamwork, Communication, Training]
  • Webinar from 23.11.2016 on the same topic
• Eclipse Con Europe, “Automated UI Testing with Jubula”. [Automated Testing, Tool Presentation]
• Storytelling for agile (testing) professionals. Workshop with Huib Schoots. [Agile Testing, Teamwork, Communication, Workshop]
• ASQF Testing Day Niedersachsen, “Qualität aus der Perspektive eines Product Owners“. [Agile Testing, Teamwork, Communication, Product Owner]
• Agile Testing Days Sweden, “Once Upon a Time…”. Keynote with Huib Schoots. [Agile Testing, Teamwork, Communication, Keynote]
• Iqnite Germany, “Werden Sie Testheld mit Explorativem Testen und Session Based Test Management!“. Workshop. [Testing]
• Agile Alliance Technical Conference, “From Potentials to Slayers – Empowering Teams to Better Quality” [Agile, Testing, Teamwork]
  • Video podcast interview about the talk with Solutions IQ
• Agile Testing Days Netherlands, “Mythbusters”. Keynote with Huib Schoots. [Agile Testing, Teamwork, Communication, Keynote]

2015

• Agile Testing Days, Germany, “Where words fail, music speaks“. Keynote with Huib Schoots. [Agile Testing, Teamwork, Communication, Keynote]
  • Video of the keynote on vimeo. Password: WolfgangAmadeusMozart
• Eclipse Con Europe, “Jekyll and Hyde with Jubula“. With Markus Tiede. [Automated Testing, Tool Presentation]
  
• Test Automation Day NL, “Test Automation Patterns, workflows and requirement-linking; the next steps on the quality journey”. [Automated Testing, Testing]
• Iqnite Germany, “Eine Qualitätsreise – die wichtigsten Punkte auf dem Weg“. With Alexander Preuk. [Automated Testing, Agile, Testing]
• Eclipse Con North America, “Jekyll and Hyde with Jubula“. With Markus Tiede. [Automated Testing, Tool Presentation]
  • Video  of the presentation
• Agile Testing Days Netherlands, “Where words fail, music speaks“. Keynote with Huib Schoots. [Agile Testing, Teamwork, Communication, Keynote]

2014

• OOP, “Qualitätssicherung für mobile Anwendungen – Fallstudien für GUI-Testautomatisierung“. [Automated Testing, Mobile Testing]
• Eclipse Con North America “Automating Tests with Jubula” (Tutorial). [Automated Testing, Tool Presentation]
• Eclipse Con North America, “Exploratory Testing and Session Based Test Management“. [Testing]
• Iqnite Germany, “Jubula Tutorial”. [Automated Testing, Tool Presentation]
• SAGWAS Workshop “Gemeinsam zur Qualität: In der Firma und im Team“. [Teamwork, Testing, Teaching]
• Eclipse Con Europe “Automating Tests with Jubula” (Tutorial). [Automated Testing, Tool Presentation]
• Eclipse Con Europe, “Improve your manual testing without getting bored!“. [Testing]
• Eurostar, “QA cookbook, ingredients for a great recipe“. [Testing, Teamwork, Agile]

2013

• CeBIT, “Mobile Test Automation” [Automated Testing, Mobile Testing]
• Eclipse Con North America, “Designing software with users and testers in mind“. [Testing, Usability]
• Eclipse Con North America, “Testing a Scout Application with JUnit and Jubula“. With Jeremie Bresson. [Tool Presentation, Automated Testing]
• Agile Development Practices, “Driving quality with test automation”. [Agile, Testing, Automated Testing]
• Eclipse Testing Day, “Quality assurance for mobile applications – case studies for GUI test automation“. [Automated Testing, Agile, Testing]
• Eclipse Con Europe, “Usability and testing – two unloved birds with one stone“. [Testing, Usability]
• Eclipse Con Europe, “Testing mobile applications with Jubula“. With Markus Tiede.  [Automated Testing, Tool Presentation, Mobile Testing]
• Eclipse Con Europe, “Jubula Tutorial – specify, execute, analyse“.  [Tool Presentation, Automated Testing]
• Imbus QS Tag, “Jubula”.  [Tool Presentation, Automated Testing]

2012

• Eclipse Con North America, “Acceptance test driven development and continuous regression testing with Jubula“. [Agile, Tool Presentation, Automated Testing]
• Eclipse Con North America, “The Jubula Tutorial: Round 3“. [Tool Presentation, Automated Testing]
• Karlsruher Entwicklertag, “Praktische Strategien für Agiles Planen und Schätzen”. [Agile, Teamwork]
• Test Automation Day NL, “Eclipse Jubula: Moving Away from Capture – Replay”. [Tool Presentation, Automated Testing]
• Agile Testing Days, “Why working on an agile team is like world of warcraft”. [Agile, Teamwork, Testing]
• Eurostar, “What agile teams can learn from World of Warcraft“. [Agile, Teamwork, Testing]. Webinar Link
• Eclipse Con Europe, “How the Jubula team tests: Continuous Integration, Test Design, Process“ [Testing, Automated Testing, Agile]
• Eclipse Con Europe, “What’s new and nifty in Jubula” [Tool Presentation, Automated Testing]
• Eclipse Testing Day, “Cutting the right corners: Achieving the balance between effort and payoff for GUI test automation“. [Testing, Automated Testing, Agile]

2011 (partially as “Alex Imrie”)

• Software Quality Days, “A quest for quality” [Agile, Testing]
• ASQF meetup in Braunschweig, “Automatisierte Funktionstests” [Automated Testing, Testing]
• Eclipse Con North America, “Jubula Tutorial” [Automated Testing, Tool Presentation]
• JAX, “Jubula”. [Automated Testing, Tool Presentation]
• Software Engineering Essentials, “Offenheit im Entwicklungsprozess: Gnadenloser Transparenz”. [Agile, Testing]
• Stuttgarter Test Tage, “Jubula Vorstellung”. [Automated Testing, Tool Presentation]
• Agile Testing Days, “Introduction to Jubula”. [Automated Testing, Tool Presentation]
• Eurostar, “Preventing Defects from Escaping the Development Phase with Automated Functional Testing”. [Agile, Testing, Automated Testing]

2010  (as “Alex Imrie”)

• Agile Acceptance Testing Days, “Agile Acceptance Testing: A Case Study”. [Agile, Testing]
• Iqnite Germany, “Test Automation with Keywords: A Case Study” [Automated Testing]
• Testing and Finance, “Knowledge is power: do you know where your quality is tonight?”. With Achim Brede. [Automated Testing, Agile, Testing]
• Eclipse Testing Day, “Automated acceptance testing in Eclipse applications”. [Automated Testing]
• Starwest, “Error handling in automated acceptance tests”. [Automated Testing]
• Agile Testing Days, “Error Driven Development”. [Agile, Testing]

2009 (as “Alex Imrie”)

• Eclipse Con North America, “Usability in Eclipse Applications”. With Achim Lörke. [Usability]
• JAX, “Usability in Eclipse Applications”. With Achim Lörke. [Usability]
• Eclipse Summit Europe, “A checklist for automated testing”. [Automated Testing]