Testing Assembly 2025 Tutorial
Holistic Testing: Strategies for Agile Teams
Friday 21.11.2025, 9.00 – 16.00, Original Sokos Hotel Presidentti
Content
Many teams trying to use agile ways of working struggle to deliver good-enough software frequently and consistently. They’re bogged down by production bugs, stuck on test automation, and lack time for critical activities like exploratory testing. Observability feels out of reach, and continuous delivery or DevOps cultures seem like impossible goals.
If this resonates, join me to explore how a holistic approach to testing can help your team tackle these challenges. We’ll dive into automating effectively, collaborating in cross-functional teams, and building what your customer truly needs. Through a case study and hands-on exercises, we’ll explore practices like guiding development with business-facing tests, exploratory testing techniques, and mitigating risks by focusing on the right quality attributes. You’ll also learn how to integrate human-centric testing and automation into your pipeline and use tools to visualize your strategy. We’ll wrap up by designing experiments to help your team continuously improve. By the end, you’ll leave with a testing toolbox and actionable steps to build quality software with confidence.
Tutorial is facilitated by Alexandra Schladebeck.
Target group
This is a workshop for Software testing & QA professionals.
Prerequisites
The participants should bring a laptop, tablet, or mobile with a web browser and Internet access.
Registration
Click here to register for this tutorial
Trainer
Alex Schladebeck, Bredex
Alex Schladebeck is one of the managing directors at Bredex GmbH in Braunschweig, Germany with 7 years of managing experience, and 4 years of managing managers. An effervescent addition to any situation, Alex uses her unique style to her advantage in the corporate world of negotiating contracts and keeping a medium-sized company afloat amidst bigger players.
Next to her leadership and strategic activities, Alex still works with customers in workshops about quality, agile and communication topics. She has won the award for “Most Influential Agile Testing Professional”, is a member of the ASQF Steering Committee and has been an active speaker since 2009 and international keynote speaker since 2016.
Alex’s current career grew from her years of expertise as an exploratory tester. Her presentations on the topic, with her contribution to the field through microheuristics, brought her to the realisation that the same skills of systematically exploring and categorising give her the best tools she could have to both succeed as a manager of managers, and teach others to do the same.