TUTORIAL DAY

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

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FULL DAY TUTORIALS
9:00-16:30 Ard KRAMER & Szilárd SZÉLL: The change game of quality
9:00-16:30 Dawid PACIA: API testing journey through web protocols using Postman
9:00-16:30 Tomasz KLEPACKI: Automated Testing in CI/CD with Jenkins & GitHub Actions
9:00-16:30 Lia MOREIRA: Playwright – Walkthrough guide
9:00-16:30 Martijn GOOSSENS: Fix your Shift Left using BDD
9:00-16:30 Mike JARRED & Hannah REYNOLDS: Navigating the Job Market – Career Clinic workshop
9:00-16:30 Leandro MELENDEZ: Ramping up modern performance
HALF DAY TUTORIALS
9:00-12:30 René van VELDHUIJZEN: Brik by Brik – Basic principles of Automation in Testing
9:00-12:30 Tariq KING: A Quality Engineering Introduction to AI and Machine Learning
9:00-12:30 Thiago Ferreira MACHADO: Automated Tests with Cypress: From Zero to Hero

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CONFERENCE DAY 1

Wednesday, 15 October 2025

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08:30-9:00 Registration
Plenary Session
9:00-9:15 Grand Opening with Attila FEKETE, Programme Chair of HUSTEF 2025 & Tibor CSÖNDES, Head of HUSTEF
9:15-9:25 Diamond Partner Speech by Hungarian Testing Board
9:25-10:10 KEYNOTE – Tariq KING: Human Experience Testing: Redefining Quality Engineering in the Age of AI
10:10-10:20
Platinum Partner Speech of X-ray
10:20-10:50 Coffee Break
  Track 1 Track 2 Track 3
10:50-11:20 Szilárd SZÉLL – Building Trust in AI Agents Dawid PACIA – API testing journey through web protocols Michal BUCZKO – Framework for Thriving Remote Leadership
5-minute-break to select session
11:25-11:55 Laveena RAMCHANDANI – Beyond Code: The Power of Thought Leadership in Engineering Maryia TULEIKA Securing LLMs: Insights into OWASP top 10 Irja STRAUS How to train your robot?
5-minute-break to select session
12:00-12:30 Bryan JONES – Testing and Assuring AI-Based Systems Richard SEIDL Quality as an attitude – From Testing to Quality Engineering to…what? Giuseppe DONATI Beyond A/B: Test automation approaches for web variants from A to Z
12:30-13:40 Networking Lunch & CAREER CLINIC
Plenary Session
13:40-14:25 Raising Star KEYNOTE –  Sowmya SRIDHARAMURTHY – Scaling testing & test automation without losing control
  Track 1 Track 2 Track 3
14:30-15:00  Steve WATSON – Critical Thinking for Testers in the age of AI Brijesh DEB – AI in Testing: Magic Wand or Pandora’s Box? Ernest Marza CLIMENT – Enhancing Performance Test Results with ML and LLMs: Communication Beyond the Numbers
5-minute-break to select session
15:05-15:35 Vitaly SHAROVATOVValue, Money, and Costs: The Ultimate Common Language for the Testing Strategy Mesut DURUKAL – Zen of Testing Sonja Nešić – Get a grip on your quality by using Quality Views
5-minute-break to select session
15:40-16:10 Linda van de VOOREN A Comedy of Errors Craig RISI – Contracts for Hire Péter ILLÉS – Stop Sabotaging Yourself: Break Mental Blocks to Actually Use What You Learn
16:10-16:40 Coffee Break  
Plenary Session
16:40-16:45
Gold Partner Speech of Ericcson & EPAM
16:45-17:30 KEYNOTE – Rob Lambert: Talk about value, not testing – how to bring about rapid change
17:30-17:40 Closing the First Day
17:40-22:00 HUSTEFest – 15th Birthday Party!

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CONFERENCE DAY 2

Thursday, 16 October 2025

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08:00-9:00 Registration & Lean Coffee with Gáspár NAGY, our former keynote speaker!
Plenary Session
9:00-9:10 Opening of the Day
9:10-9:20 Platinum Partner Speech of Nokia
9:20-10:05 KEYNOTE – Gojko ADZIC – Lizard Optimization
10:05-10:10 GOLD Partner Speeches of SiliconLab & Inflectra
10:10-10:15 SILVER Partner Speeches
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
  Track 1  Track 2 Track 3
10:45-11:15 Martijn GOOSSENS Talk: Putting the Q in DevEx Attila BULENDA – From generic to specific test automation architecture with Playwright József KREISZ – How to train your AI?
5-minute-break to select session
11:20-11:50 Katja OBRING – Metrics Prashant HEGDE – A Tester’s UX Diaries: Lessons Learned from Frustrating User Experiences Camilla ELLYTON – Unlocking Inclusion, How to Get Started With A11y Testing
5-minute-break to select session
11:55-12:25 Rob LAMBERT – 8 insightful ways to climb YOUR career ladder Davy KENIS – The Feedback Loop from Hell Magdalena LISTWAN – Eureka! I Won’t Be an Automation Tester
12:25-13:35 Networking Lunch + CAREER CLINIC
Plenary Session
13:35-14:20 Keynote – Gitte OTTOSEN: 30 years in testing – Battles won and battles lost
  Track 1 Track 2 Track 3
14:25-14:55 Marta FIRLEJ – Behind the Scenes: A Software Tester’s Journey in Understanding the Business Leandro MELENDEZEvolving performance assurance Fernando TEIXEIRA – Testing Cloud Applications Without Breaking the Bank: Testcontainers and LocalStack
5-minute-break to select session
15:00-15:30 Chris ARMSTRONG – When Life Gives You Lemons… Are You Counting Them or Making Lemonade? Hugh McCAMPHILL From Resistance to Results: Navigating a Test Automation Tool Shift Michal VANEK and Michal VELJACIK – When UFO Lands! Analyzing User Feedback During a Massive Customer Migration
5-minute-break to select session
15:35-16:05 Ard Kramer – AI is not a god that we can trust Andrew Brown – Taming your Dragon: Addressing your technical debt beast Andreea Cosariu – Leading QA Initiatives for Strategic Business Impact
16:05-16:30 Coffee Break
Plenary Session
16:30-17:15 KEYNOTE – Simon STEWART – Using AI, statistics, and set theory to know what to test
17:15-17:30 Drawing, Closing the Conference

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