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

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.

What if the secrets to constructing a lasting, resilient home could be applied to building robust software systems? Just as a house stands firm on the knowledge passed down through generations, our approach to software testing can benefit from timeless principles. In my journey as a woman navigating both construction sites and the IT world, I’ve discovered remarkable parallels between these seemingly disparate fields.

Join me for an enlightening session that will take you through the captivating realm of design patterns from the perspective of a QA Architect. I’ll dive deep into practical patterns like Singleton, Builder, and Decorator, sharing insights on their strengths and pitfalls based on my real-world experiences. Forget the usual discussions on KISS or DRY; instead, we’ll explore how fundamental programming principles can transform the way we create maintainable tests.

Drawing from my experience in technical recruitment and test design, I aim to equip you with actionable knowledge to seamlessly integrate these patterns into your projects. Let’s uncover how laying a solid foundation can lead to exceptional outcomes, not only in constructing homes but also in crafting outstanding software solutions.

Key Takeaways:

• Application of Design Patterns: can significantly improve the quality and maintainability of tests in IT projects.
• Fundamentals of Programming: Grasping fundamental programming principles and their impact on creating effective tests is crucial for success in QA.
• Integration of Experiences: Utilizing practical experiences from technical recruitment and test design to effectively implement design patterns in the daily practices of teams.

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.

Do you feel like there is an interesting topic to share? Some new idea or discovery? Got inspiration from some other talk and you want to share it?

Mark your topic on the registration board in the room, prepare a 5 minute talk and present.

Registration board available in the room from 12PM.

Bring your wits, because this is it! PowerPoint karaoke, also known as battledecks or battle decks, is an improvisational activity in which a participant must deliver a presentation based on a set of slides that they have never seen before. Slides may include actual slides seen at NTD.

Both topics and talks will be provided by all of us in the room. You pull a random title out of a hat, grab the remote and away we go!

Especially useful for Friday presenters to practice before the main event.