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World Congress 2025 • Aug 20, 2025 • Session details

Your Testing Strategy is broken - lets fix it!

Luise Freese

Are your green builds masking a broken testing strategy? Stop chasing vanity metrics and learn how example mapping and behavior-driven development can build true software confidence.

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#1 about 6 min

Reevaluating test coverage as a metric for software reliability

Treating test coverage as a performance metric creates a false sense of security that ignores real-world failure modes.

#2 about 3 min

Minimizing ineffective tests that only validate the happy path

Prioritizing the easy-to-simulate happy path creates dangerous gaps in application safety and masks underlying structural issues.

#3 about 4 min

Bridging the gap between fantasy testing and real-world conditions

Applications must be tested against realistic constraints like flaky APIs and mismatched data to unlock release speed and true confidence.

#4 about 3 min

Shifting left by integrating testing into requirements engineering

Integrating testing into requirements engineering prevents post-mortem validation by clarifying expected behavior before coding begins.

#5 about 4 min

Rethinking the testing pyramid and deleting risk-free tests

Focusing on core business flows and real-world vulnerabilities instead of rigid test pyramids reduces unnecessary validation busywork.

#6 about 2 min

Applying boundary analysis and decision tables to test design

Applying equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, and decision tables establishes which critical scenarios to test exhaustively.

#7 about 4 min

Aligning cross-functional teams through behavior driven development

Establishing a shared understanding of success metrics unites cross-functional teams to build and validate the right technical features.

#8 about 3 min

Converting vague user requirements into shared testable scenarios

Mapping concrete examples before writing code prevents late discovery bugs and builds clear execution contracts.

#9 about 3 min

Addressing blame culture and organizational trust in software teams

Replacing defensive coding habits with shared responsibility prevents extensive test suites from acting merely as a legal defense.

#10 about 2 min

Actionable steps to improve team testing strategies immediately

Deleting valueless tests and modeling explicit scenarios upfront creates rapid improvements in team quality standards.

Matching moments

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Advancing through unit testing maturity levels

Johannes Bergsmann Johannes Bergsmann +1 · WWC 2023

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Adopting a pragmatic approach to reasonable software engineering tests

Golo Roden · WWC 2021

4:22 min

Further resources for software testing patterns

Sascha Depold +1 · WWC 2021

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Implementing a shift-left accessibility testing strategy

Jörg Jakoby Jörg Jakoby · WWC Europe 2026

2:04 min

Shifting software testing from adversarial gatekeeping to enablement

Steve Upton Steve Upton · WWC 2024

4:05 min

Using test automation as a catalyst for team collaboration

Augustin Gottlieb Augustin Gottlieb · WWC 2025

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