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Test Con Europe 2026 is one of Europe's largest software testing and QA conferences: 60+ talks, 8+ hands-on workshops and 4 parallel tracks on October 20–23, 2026, in Vilnius, Lithuania and online, with 800+ attendees from 35+ countries. Workshops take place on October 20 at SIMBIOCITY Nova, and the main conference runs October 21–23 at Forum Cinemas Vingis and online.
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TestCon Europe 2026 Workshops
Eight or more hands-on software testing and quality assurance workshops taking place as part of TestCon Europe 2026.
Deploying and Testing Ephemeral Environments
Merging code that hasn’t been fully tested is one of the biggest reasons teams experience missed release dates and flaky test suites. Deploying to and testing ephemeral environments gives your team the ability to know for certain that new features are implemented correctly before committing those features to the release and before other developers start depending on the new code. This workshop focuses on the underlying patterns and principles that make ephemeral environment workflows effective,
Accessibility In the AI Era: A Practical Approach for Creating and testing Accessible Web Applications
The importance of creating accessible web applications is undebatable, but it can be very complex to implement and test. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll equip you with the tools and techniques you need to test and create accessible web applications. We’ll explore the principles of inclusive design and learn how to test our websites using assistive technology to ensure that they work for everyone. You’ll gain hands-on experience using the latest techniques and tools for inclusive design and test
TestCon Europe 2026 Conference
The main TestCon Europe 2026 conference featuring 60+ talks across 4 parallel tracks, available onsite in Vilnius and online.
Adapting QA for the AI-Driven SDLC
Adam Sandman will discuss the latest advances in agentic AI, including the move from the digital intern to the digital team, where software development activities are moving from an agile team working in squads to a digital factory. Agentic AI technologies are fundamentally reshaping how software is ideated, designed, developed, and tested. He will provide practical examples of how QA and testing professionals can make sure these new AI systems are fit for purpose, safe, and have the necessary q
Cost of Quality: Where QA Ethics Meets Economics
After a nasty incident, nobody asks, “Why didn’t we invest in training, pairing, or design reviews?” but rather, “Why didn’t QA catch it?” Suddenly, the company is spending large amounts of money on mitigation, hotfixes, support, and reputation repair: the most expensive kind of quality work. In this talk, Vitaly Sharovatov will show how cost of quality helps reframe the conversation. Instead of asking QA to prove the ROI of preventive measures, the discussion compares three costs for the same r
Romeo & JIRA: How I fell in love with Test Task Management
Administration. Documentation. Estimation. For many, working with a task manager is the worst part of the job. But what if Rick Tracy were to tell attendees that they may have been ignoring what could be the love of their lives? In this talk, Rick will bring attendees along on his experience of falling in love with test task managers and how they have helped boost his testing substantially on multiple levels. Attendees will learn how to make every task count, make every box in any task manager a
Digital Quality & Trust: The Quality Tree Framework for Responsible AI & Software
Serge Baumberger explores how modern software systems increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence and hyper-automation, which can amplify both innovation and risk. The Quality Tree Framework is a pragmatic model that maps essential quality domains into a structured tree and provides a roadmap for continuous improvement. Attendees will learn how to adapt the Quality Tree to their own projects, integrate it into CI/CD pipelines, align it with DevOps and SRE practices, and ensure that AI-drive
Capturing the Mythical Green Build
For years, achieving 100% green end-to-end (E2E) test runs has felt like chasing a unicorn. In fact, many teams still do not believe it is feasible. Chris Harbert challenges this conventional wisdom, demonstrating how high-performing teams consistently and reliably achieve 100% green end-to-end test runs through practical strategies such as ephemeral environments, parallel testing, disciplined test code management, and cross-team collaboration. Organizations do not need to abandon their current
Stress Testing Your Feelings, Needs, and Values For Psychological Growth and Well-Being
The presentation discusses the importance of becoming aware of and managing one’s feelings, needs, and values for performance, career development, and overall well-being through the lens of software testing. Drawing on his professional background in IT recruitment, research in technology organizations, and counseling for IT professionals, Povilas Godliauskas conceptualizes the relationship between a therapist and a client as a form of pair testing, where the therapist provides the client - as th
The Death of Anonymization: Scaling with Test Data as Service
In the era of distributed microservices, traditional approaches - such as anonymising production data - have reached their breaking point. This talk introduces Test Data as a Service, an architectural shift where each domain team exposes supported APIs to create and evolve its own data, strictly following real business logic and call order. The key opportunity lies in composition. By orchestrating and chaining data-creation APIs across services, teams can build complex, end-to-end scenarios on d
We Ship Faster Than We Learn: a New Reality For QA
Software teams have become very good at shipping quickly, but in many teams, confidence is not growing at the same pace. More change means more assumptions, more test maintenance, more rushed checks, and less time to really understand risk. This talk looks at the hidden tax of speed through the lens of everyday QA work, focusing on the practical challenges testers and quality engineers face today, and on the skills and habits that matter more in this environment: risk thinking, sharper collabora
Going Beyond “Have You Tried To Restart” Line
While many people have heard support suggest over the phone, “try restarting it,” Vaidas Kavaliūnas uses that familiar moment to illustrate that real solutions matter more than half-measures. In this talk, he highlights how meaningful progress often comes from moving forward, failing, and learning along the way, rather than relying on superficial fixes. This session is for anyone who wants to move beyond basic troubleshooting and develop a more proactive, growth-oriented approach to problem-solv
Synthetic Testdata on The Fly? Solved!
If organizations are looking for fresh ideas for bringing synthetic test data into development, testing, and automation workflows without losing human understanding and control, this session offers a practical perspective. Dag Nygaard and Erik Rogstad share how they approached test data generation in a large-scale microservice environment and how they made usable, consistent synthetic data available across the organization. They built a domain-specific language (DSL) for specifying test data, wh
When Functional Tests Become Security Evidence
During functional testing - automated or manual - testers routinely exercise some of the most security-relevant behaviors of an application. Yet, once a test passes, we tend to focus solely on functional outcomes and disregard the security signals generated during execution. This talk argues that ignoring these signals is a testing decision, not a technical limitation. From a tester’s perspective, Daniel Horn explores how runtime observation techniques such as Interactive Application Security Te
Trust Issues at Work: Why QA Can’t Deliver Quality Without Trust
When reporting a bug, how often do people feel they have to fight for it to be fixed? Veronika Ilina shows that trust consists of three components: competence, integrity, and benevolence, all of which can—and should - be intentionally developed. Drawing on real cases from over 10 years of experience building trust between tech teams, she shares practical frameworks for strengthening trust and repairing it at the interpersonal, team, and organizational levels. Attendees will leave this talk with
How We Captured Implicit System Knowledge Before Our Regression Expert Retired
What if a team maintains a long-lived legacy system, where critical system knowledge is implicit, embedded in manual regression tests and in the heads of a few experienced team members, some of whom are approaching retirement? This talk explains how Arthur van Leeuwen and his team captured implicit system knowledge from their 25-year-old legacy application before their regression testing expert retired, using Gherkin as a collaborative language to make that implicit knowledge explicit and access
TestCon Europe 2026 Workshops
Eight or more hands-on software testing and quality assurance workshops taking place as part of TestCon Europe 2026.