What we’re about
Welcome to TestLab in Copenhagen (DK)
Purpose
Our purpose it to organize great meetups about context-driven testing (CDT) in the Copenhagen area.
Members and Participation
Our meetup group is for software testers, QA professionals, test engineers, managers and leaders interested in meetups where topics related to context-driven testing (CDT) are promoted, debated and challenged.
We encourage you to participate as a presenter to share some of your CDT war-stories with the context-driven testing community.
Goal
The goal of this meetup group is to build and strengthen a solid community of professional testers and QA professionals in and around Copenhagen (DK), where we share our experiences and hacks as well as learn new stuff from peers and/or industry leaders.
Setting up a meetup
· It's free for all members to organize a meetup promoting context-driven testing
· If you have an idea for a meetup and would like to get some help in the arrangements, please get in touch with one of the organizers.
CDT principles
The Seven Basic Principles of the Context-Driven School:
1. The value of any practice depends on its context
2. There are good practices in context, but there are no best practices
3. People, working together, are the most important part of any project’s context
4. Projects unfold over time in ways that are often not predictable
5. The product is a solution. If the problem isn’t solved, the product doesn’t work
6. Good software testing is a challenging intellectual process
7. Only through judgment and skill, exercised cooperatively throughout the entire project, are we able to do the right things at the right times to effectively test our products
…developed by James Bach, Brian Marick, Bret Pettichord and Cem Kaner - see http://context-driven-testing.com
Context-driven testing
If you want to know more about context-driven testing, feel free to checkout the CDT forum at:
· http://copenhagencontext.com/resources
· http://copenhagencontext.com/topics
Policy
· TestLab is open and free to join
· TestLab is based on the CDT principles (see above)
· TestLab is sponsored and is run by private professionals
· Events are as a principle free to attend, but there can be exceptions if agreed with the organizers
· Promotional offers are great, but only if communicated through one of the organizers. This includes if you want to push invitations from other organizations
· We reserve the right to moderate. You are welcome to contact the organizers before setting up a meetup or with any other matter if you are in doubt about the policy
· You are always welcome to challenge the policy - please do so before breaking it.
Promoting TestLab
Please help us promote the meetups and the group to your friends and colleagues by using
- www.meetup.com/TestLab
- #TestLabDK
See you at a meetup soon!
Morten Hougaard - Organizer
M: moho@pgt.dk
T: (+45) 31 63 02 01
Upcoming events (1)
See all- "We Have AI! Why Do We Need Testers?"Nine A/S, København K
Michael Bolton is in Copenhagen because he is teaching two Rapid Software Test classes in week 40. Read more about the classes here. There are still available spots and if you use the following Testlab promo code "RST2025TESTLAB", you get a 25% discount on the classes!
Agenda:
- 17:00: Doors open
- 17:30 Welcome
- 17:45: Michael Bolton delivers a talk called "We Have AI! Why Do We Need Testers?"
- 18:30: Q&A
- 18:45 - 20:00: Snacks, beverages and networking
Read more about the session and Michael below:
"We Have AI! Why Do We Need Testers?"
Technology can reduce work, make people’s lives easier, and eliminate human error. Or it can disempower us, mislead us, and destroy our data. Which is it? How will things go? We may have our hopes and fears for the products we build, but we don’t have to settle for unwarranted beliefs and assumptions – we can get facts and hard evidence.That’s what testers are for. Science helps us learn about the way things work in the physical and social worlds, and testing does the same for software. Testing is to technology what science is to the wider world: a set of beliefs, principles, and practices by which we learn from experiencing, exploring, and experimenting to help us get to truths about things.
But now that we've got LLMs and GPTs and agentic AI, do we really need testers? Yes, and more than ever! Machine learning models are generated and selected, not developed by conscious, intentional thought. As such, they're even more vulnerable to inaccuracy and misalignment than software has ever been. As powerful as AI might be, and reliable as it might become, it cannot replace testers because it can't experience software as a socially competent human actor.
Michael Bolton identifies why dedicated testers, with perspectives at a distance from those of the builders and the business, are helpful in finding trouble that matters. That role is important, because finding trouble is the first step towards making things better.
Read more about Michael Bolton here
