Nordic Testing Days 2025

When we’re inundated with choices and unclear priorities, our minds become overloaded with unprocessed thoughts and unanswered questions. This overload creates a cycle of overthinking, draining our energy, reducing productivity, and stifling creativity.

In this state, poor decisions become inevitable. The root of this struggle lies in our over-reliance on logic. Science tells us that logic accounts for only 5% of our cognitive activity, yet we often attempt to solve complex problems, navigate uncertainty, and predict the unpredictable—all while operating at just a fraction of our potential.

This approach leads to exhaustion, confusion, missed opportunities, misaligned choices, and a dysregulated nervous system.

While logic has its value, it’s not enough—especially when we’re facing uncertainty, unpredictable outcomes, or decisions involving people and life goals. Logic operates within a limited framework, and to truly expand our decision-making capacity, we must learn to go beyond it.

In my interactive and practical talk, 'How to Break Free from Overthinking and Trust Your Inner Voice to Lead You to Success', I will take audiences through a transformative journey of self-discovery where they will:

• Understand how to break free from the exhausting cycle of overthinking
• Learn the profound role emotions play in decision-making—and how to navigate them effectively
• Discover how to activate their inner guidance system to gain clarity and confidence
• Build trust in themselves to make aligned decisions, even in the face of uncertainty

This practical and interactive session is designed for leaders, managers, directors, and professionals at all levels who want to improve their decision-making skills, enhance their creativity, and cultivate a deeper sense of self-trust.

Key Takeaways:

• Understand how to break free from the exhausting cycle of overthinking
• Learn the profound role emotions play in decision-making—and how to navigate them effectively
• Discover how to activate their inner guidance system to gain clarity and confidence
• Build trust in themselves to make aligned decisions, even in the face of uncertainty

There's a reason people in tech are notorious for answering questions with questions like "what do you mean by X?" or "that depends".

Human language is kinda vague and sloppy, but context usually fills in the blanks, and we're used to be able to clarify on the spot, but that doesn't work when we try to tell machines what to do, or when when we're putting words in documents that other people in other contexts are supposed to understand. This is, in my experience, where bugs usually occur – in the assumed understanding of constructs - the conceptual "things" we use in language, like "hour", "border", "flower", "write", "red" and "sound". In other words, things go wrong when we think that everyone must mean the same thing, when we think something is clarified enough.

The first step in uncovering these bug-generating mistakes is becoming aware of them and getting creative about alternative meanings, and that's part of why it's so much fun being a tester.

In this talk I will present some of my "favourite" constructs to challenge, and some useful cues to help you notice that a construct you're using should be investigated closer.

Key Takeaways:

• A structured way of using construct validity as an attack vector for finding bugs, even without looking under the hood, like you had x-ray vision.
• A list of very common problematic constructs, and why they keep tripping people up, again and again.
• Some phrases you may choose, to come across as less annoying, when you actually care about what others dismissively refer to as "just semantics" .

In today's world, we have the privilege of witnessing the beginning of the rise of robots. More and more companies are dealing with robotics or autonomous systems, and articles predicting the future, like from the legendary movie Terminator, arrive in my inbox almost weekly. Given the hype and the lack of practical experiences, it is easy to think that testing robots is entirely different, but is it as it seems, and are there any techniques from the good old world of software that we can apply to robots and autonomous systems?

In this story, I will tell you about my experiences and lessons learned from a year of hanging out with different robots. I will share how to test autonomous systems using contemporary exploratory testing practices. We will learn what robots have in common and the techniques we apply to train them. You will see that testing the autonomous systems is still good old testing but with different flavors of danger and predictability. How do you cope with these flavors after working exclusively in software applications? I believe this question will pop into our minds more and more, so if this raises your curiosity, then this talk is a place to be.

Key Takeaways:

• How to test robots using contemporary exploratory testing.
•  How to "translate" our "software skills" and apply them to domains such as robotics.
• Hear the real experience and how it was to work daily with a 4,5-ton heavy autonomous vehicle.

In a world where over 1 billion people live with disabilities, accessibility is no longer optional — it’s essential. The European Accessibility Act (EAA), coming into full effect in June 2025, sets a legal framework that requires businesses to provide accessible digital goods and services. This creates both a compliance mandate and an opportunity to unlock new markets, improve user experiences, and foster innovation.

We’ll explore the current challenges in accessibility testing, such as the limitations of automated tools, the importance of real-user feedback, and the complexities of testing emerging technologies like AR/VR. Learn from real-world examples, including how Accenture has partnered with clients to integrate accessibility into their digital ecosystems by integrating it into their design and development pipelines.

The talk will also introduce cutting-edge trends, such as AI-powered accessibility tools, inclusive design thinking, and the integration of accessibility into CI/CD workflows. Practical steps will be shared, including how to involve diverse users in testing and the critical role of an accessibility statement in building trust and driving continuous improvement.

Attendees will leave inspired to champion accessibility as a mindset and practice, equipped with actionable insights to create inclusive, user-friendly digital experiences that benefit everyone. Whether you’re a tester, developer, or decision-maker, this talk will show you how accessibility can be a catalyst for innovation and inclusion in your projects.

Key Takeaways:

• Accessibility Drives Innovation and Opportunity: Embrace accessibility to unlock new markets, improve user experiences, and future-proof your business.
• Think Beyond Compliance: Leverage cutting-edge tools and inclusive design to create meaningful, barrier-free digital experiences.
• Commit to Inclusivity: An accessibility statement isn’t just a policy—it’s a promise to your users and a tool for continuous improvement.

Private browsing modes, such as Chrome's incognito mode and Firefox's private mode and containers, serve the common purpose of ensuring privacy during browsing. Although the underlying implementations differ, they share key features such as not storing browsing history and cookies, hence enhancing user privacy. While this feature is useful for regular users, it's a powerhouse for automation engineers and testers. WebDriver BiDi offers a browser-agnostic method to utilize private browsing through User Contexts, cultivating a 'browserpooling' approach. This approach allows multiple tests to share a single browser instance and WebDriver session, facilitating parallel test execution. Like carpooling, where multiple passengers share a single ride to different destinations, WebDriver BiDi's user contexts enable parallel tests to utilize a single browser instance without sharing data. This provides performance gains by eliminating the time-consuming process of spinning up and shutting down multiple browser instances. Join this session to explore how user contexts operate, how to manage isolated tests and cookies across multiple tabs and gain insights with a live code demo on leveraging this technique in Selenium.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn how to optimize testing environments by using a single browser instance.
• Practical knowledge of using WebDriver BiDi's user context with code examples.
• Understand real-world use cases where this method can lead to performance gains and reduce the total runtime of automation tests.