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# Test-reduction - Doing more with less


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 19, 2024
- **Time:** 09:40–10:10 (30 min)
- **Room:** STAGE 7 (500)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/977-test-reduction-doing-more-with-less)

## Description

Let's talk about the elephant in the room: testing in software development isn't always a crowd favorite. But what if it didn't have to be that way?

This session is all about cracking the code to make testing not just bearable but actually kinda cool. 

No, seriously. It's not just another snooze-inducing session on testing. We're unpacking practical tips and clever techniques (such as risk-based testing and property-based testing) to make testing more interesting, efficient and less of a time sink. 

Join us and learn about (test design) techniques that'll turn testing into a secret weapon in your software development toolkit. Finally you will know how to answer the question “What should I (not) test?!”…. 

It's time to be more effective and starting doing more with less—less time testing, more time building awesome stuff!

## Speaker

### [Ewald](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@ewald)

QA Automation Advocate


## Related talks at this congress

- [Test Intelligence for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/418-test-intelligence) — Elmar Jürgens
- [It's a (testing) trap! - Common testing pitfalls and how to solve them](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/384-it-s-a-testing-trap) — Ramona Schwering
- [Breaking the Bug Cycle: TDD for the Win](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/315-breaking-the-bug) — Nadeen Hussein
- [Real World TDD](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/9-real-world-tdd) — Andreas Kleinbichler