Tesena Fest 2025, 24. - 25. 9., Prague

If you've heard about Quality Engineering and you're wondering how to actually get started, this practical, hands-on workshop is for you. 

Creating a Quality Engineering Strategy is a great first step to move beyond testing and start building quality into the way your team works. In this workshop, you'll learn how quality engineering differs from traditional testing, and how a QE strategy can help you prevent, detect, and correct quality issues — not just in your products, but also in the processes you use to build them. 

Through a mix of short talks, group exercises, and discussions, we'll explore the key ideas behind quality engineering — and you’ll start putting them into practice. 

What We'll Cover: 

• Session 1: What Does Quality Really Mean? 
  Understanding what quality is and how different customers and stakeholders see it.
   
• Session 2: Maximising Flow: 
  How to spot waste, add feedback loops, and find opportunities for continuous improvement in your team's process.
   
• Session 3: Quality Risks: 
  Identifying and prioritising risks that could affect product and process quality.
   
• Session 4: Bringing It All Together: 
  Creating a first draft of a Quality Engineering Strategy for your own context. 

Three Things You'll Take Away: 

• Quality is Everyone’s Responsibility: 
  How to get your whole team thinking about quality, not just testers.
   
• Continuous Improvement: 
  Improving products, processes, and teamwork — not just fixing bugs.
   
• Effective Risk Management: 
  Tools for spotting and tackling risks early, before they turn into expensive problems. 

Why This Workshop? 

You'll leave with the knowledge and confidence to start building your first Quality Engineering Strategy with your team. No previous experience with QE is needed — just your own testing experience and a willingness to think a bit differently about quality! 

About the Workshop 
 In a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, the ability to recognize AI-generated content is becoming a key professional and personal skill. This interactive workshop introduces participants to the fundamentals of AI detection through a blend of theoretical background, real-life examples, and hands-on exercises. The format includes presentation, short talks, collaborative discussions, and practical challenges designed to build critical thinking and AI literacy. Our focus spans both workplace and personal settings, empowering participants to navigate AI-driven content with confidence and responsibility. 

Key Topics 

• Introduction to AI Detection 
   Why AI recognition matters, where it shows up in our lives, and how to approach it with a critical mindset. 
  
  
• AI in the Workplace 
   Risks and implications of AI-generated content in documents, social media, and testing outputs – and how to detect it. 
  
  
• Testing & Test Automation Integration 
   How test analysts can verify the authenticity and purpose of generated outputs, anonymize sensitive data, and identify generalized patterns. 
  
  
• AI in Personal Life 
   Tools and techniques to spot AI-created images, texts, news, or videos – and how to stay informed and safe online. 
  
  
• Practical Exercises 
   Participants will generate and detect AI content in various formats, sharing and reviewing each other's outputs. 

Workshop Requirements 

A laptop or tablet is required for interactive tasks. No technical background is needed – the workshop is open to anyone interested in AI. Access to a paid version of an AI chatbot (e.g. ChatGPT Plus) is recommended for the best experience during some exercises.

Vedeš tým? Nenech si ujít! 
Přijď na praktický workshop s Quality Mind a získej nové nástroje pro řešení náročných týmových situací, zlepši svou komunikaci a objev naši novou službu, která tě podrží v roli lídra. 
Investuj jeden den do sebe — a získej náskok, který se ti mnohonásobně vrátí. 

Workshop s Quality Mind: Vedení týmů v náročných podmínkách 

Zveme vás na workshopový den s Quality Mind, který je určen především pro manažery, team leadery a všechny, kdo vedou týmy a denně čelí výzvám spojeným s lidským faktorem v práci. Vedení lidí je jednou z nejnáročnějších disciplín, a právě proto si zaslouží vaši plnou pozornost i podporu. 

Cítíte v týmu problémy v komunikaci a vzájemném pochopení? Vidíte potenciál, že by spolupráce mezi členy týmu mohla být lepší? Nebo procházíte agilní transformací a setkáváte se s odporem ke změnám? To vše jsou témata, kterým se budeme na našem workshopu věnovat.

V první části workshopu se zaměříme na mezilidskou komunikaci, vysvětlíme si její úskalí a naučíme se, jak se nenechat zatáhnout do nekonstruktivních her.

Druhá část dne bude věnovaná skupinovému zážitku Quality Mind. Budete mít prostor sdílet svoje zkušenosti a témata, se kterými se potýkáte. Zažijete facilitovanou skupinovou diskuzi, která vám přinese podporu, pomoc a odpovědi na vaše otázky. 

Workshop je pro vás, pokud: 

• cítíte velkou zodpovědnost a tlak při rozhodování,
   
• zažíváte osamělost při zásadních rozhodnutích, 
  
  
• hledáte zpětnou vazbu nebo potvrzení, že jdete správným směrem, 
  
  
• potřebujete podporu při řešení konkrétních situací — protože „víc hlav víc ví“, 
  
  
• rádi rozšiřujete svůj pohled na problémy a hledáte nové perspektivy, 
  
  
• řešíte úkoly, které vás vyčerpávají a berou vám energii, 
  
  
• narážíte na okolnosti, které nemůžete ovlivnit, 
  
  
• a záleží vám na vlastním rozvoji i na dopadu vaší práce na ostatní. 

V případě, že jste si alespoň na jednu věc odpověděli ano, máme připravenou třešničku na dortu: představíme vám naši novou, revoluční službu zaměřenou na kontinuální podporu lidí ve vedoucích rolích. Pomůže vám zvládat vaši roli s větší lehkostí a posunout svůj leadership na novou úroveň. 

About the Workshop

Forget slow, manual test scripts.

The future of testing is fast, smart, and powered by AI.

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll set up your real AI test agent from scratch. See how Playwright + Wopee.io can explore your app, map user flows, and write the tests for you. No more chasing flaky scripts. No more maintenance headaches.

Here’s what you’ll get:

• Live demos. Real apps. No theory - just practical work.
• Experiments you can use on Monday. Not “someday.”
• A simple, clear path from manual testing to AI-driven automation.

Build, run, and launch your own AI testing agent. Then see why this isn’t hype anymore, it’s the new standard.

What You’ll Learn

• How AI agents explore your app and write Playwright tests (live!)
• How to connect AI-powered test generation with your CI/CD
• Pro tips to debug and upgrade your new AI tests
• Visual assertions vs. AI-powered validations: what matters most?
• How to keep control, but let AI do the heavy lifting

Walk Away With

• Your own working AI test agent
• Practical ways to boost your test coverage
• A clear vision for the future of testing

Why Join?

Walk in with questions. Walk out with your first AI testing agent: running tests on a real app, plus a toolkit you can take back to your team.
Curious what AI can really do for QA? Want to get off the test automation hamster wheel? This workshop is your launchpad.

Don’t Take My Word for It

Hear what past attendees think - straight from the source:

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Whether you’re a developer, QA specialist, or product manager, this friendly, hands-on workshop will take you step-by-step from the basics to full confidence in using AI-driven autonomous testing, no heavy technical jargon, just practical skills you can put to work right away.

Fixing quality is not an easy task. It involves changing the culture, changing the processes being used, and sometimes even changing how software engineering is done. But how do you know whether any of the change agents you have used are actually successful?

In my experience, I went ahead and started measuring quality, but I did not get feedback in time. In retrospect, I realized that I had confused product and productivity metrics.

In this talk, I want to share the metrics I measured, how I measured them, and what feedback I started receiving. I will also share tips on how best to represent these metrics and how to get team buy-in for their usage.

Is reviewing pull requests as a tester really a thing? Yes, it is!
In fact, pull requests are my daily starting point for testing. In my team, we manage all our software development with pull requests.

In short, a pull request (also known as a merge request) is when a developer asks team members to review their code changes before adding them to the software project.
Pull requests provide a large amount of useful information. By reviewing and analysing them, I learn a lot about the developers' work. This knowledge drives my testing and helps me test these code changes more effectively.

And this is where the fun starts. In this session, I will look at a pull request from a tester's point of view. Yes, I will include source code. But do not worry, you do not need to be fluent in code to join a pull request review. There is much to explore beyond the code.

In this talk, I will explain the basics of reviewing a pull request. I will start with an introduction to pull requests, then walk through a full review from beginning to end. At each step, I will give examples and highlight interesting things to check, such as the repository policies and guidelines, and whether the changes meet agreed standards. I will also discuss how these findings support the team's testing.

Do not miss the opportunity to uncover valuable knowledge hidden in your team's source control system. Extend your knowledge and start diving into your team's pull requests today, the best time to start is now, and the rest will follow.

As of tomorrow, teams will not need QA engineers.

Sounds crazy? That is precisely what we are building at Canva.

AI changed the game overnight. Development teams were shipping faster than ever, and QA needed to adapt. We flipped the script. Instead of teams waiting for us, we empowered them to completely own quality through our self-service approach.

To achieve this, we built AI tools that support key parts of the QA process: test plans, test generation, a test parties assistant, and more. Teams gained what they needed without the wait, while quality signals and indicators ensure they remain relentless about quality standards.

But what about QAs? They no longer test. We shifted our focus to exploring new frontiers and enabling quality across the organization, thereby significantly increasing the impact of our work given the rapid pace of change.

I will walk you through our transformation journey: the practical tooling approaches we adopted, how we adapted our QA processes to facilitate this change, the key breakthrough moments that made it work, and why this shift is critical now.

The system is evolving, and so is your role in it.

This panel dives into the world of modern pipelines, DevOps, and the skills that blur the lines between testing, development, and operations. Are you ready to see how deep the rabbit hole goes?

I once started a new role where one of my key responsibilities was to move testing to the next level. The team had automation in place as part of their delivery process and had invested a lot into shifting testing left, which was great. As someone who has dealt with flaky and ineffective automation before, I thought this time it would be smooth sailing.

However, in reality, most days showed red reports. But worse, no one seemed to be concerned about it. My spider senses were tingling like crazy. There was a pattern, but I could not see it.

Arming myself with as much data as I could gather and putting all of my experience to use, I set out to find the truth and shift the team from constant firefighting to long-term continuous improvement.

We will explore how looking at trends, going beyond your own capabilities and limitations, and examining problems from different parts of an ecosystem can reveal hidden issues and help move systems out of the status quo. We will talk about the unexpected resistance I faced and how we managed to shift the mindset from blaming others to taking collective responsibility for improvement.

These principles are not limited to automation. You can apply them to any area of your work to promote continuous improvement and break free from the cycle of reactive problem-solving.

I have spent almost two decades with all kinds of automation, and I have noticed a pattern that repeats over and over again. The pattern is a lack of communicability, sustainability, and maintainability. Even though we now live in the age of DevOps and collaboration, test automation is too often something that QA specialists build for themselves, and only as a side activity or hobby. And too often, it is a separate system from the ones that developers are using.

In this talk, I will explain why automation is a team effort and how it should break the silos between people and processes, instead of enforcing them. Automation should be something that helps the team to communicate and collaborate together. But in order to succeed, test automation must be treated as software and must also get the attention that any software needs. For this reason, I have gathered the most common antipatterns of automation. I have also created my ten commandments for avoiding those antipatterns and gaining the sustainable and shared automation that we all want to have.