BrowserStack Software Testing and QA meetup - July

-- Update -
Hello Munich,

​We’re excited to share an update about our upcoming meetup!
​One more inspiring speaker has joined our lineup:
​Evgenii Kozyrev, Senior Quality Manager, casavi GmbH.
​Evgenii will give a talk "Prevent, Don’t Patch: The Power of Early Bug Detection".
​We’ll explore shift-left testing as more than just a phase in the delivery pipeline. Real prevention starts long before test execution: with clear requirements, shared understanding, thoughtful design, solid development practices, early feedback, and continuous collaboration between QA/QE, developers, product, and design.
​This session will focus on practical ways teams can reduce ambiguity, catch risks earlier, and build quality into the work instead of inspecting it at the end. We’ll also briefly touch on the role of AI tools and automation as powerful accelerators—but not substitutes for critical thinking and team ownership.
​Attendees will leave with concrete ideas they can apply to make quality a shared responsibility and prevent more bugs before they reach testing, production, or users.
You will learn:

✅ Prevention beats detection, and detection beats correction: The cheapest bug is the one that never gets written.
✅ Shift-left is a mindset, not a milestone: It works best when quality starts in requirements, design, and development—not only in testing.
✅ Quality is a shared responsibility: QA/QE plays a key role, but effective bug prevention depends on collaboration across the whole team.

Hello Munich,

We are excited to announce the next BrowserStack Community Meetup, where you'll have the opportunity to connect with fellow QA professionals, software engineers, and testing enthusiasts from across the city.
Whether you're just starting your testing journey or have years of experience, this session will offer valuable insights to help strengthen your testing strategies.
This time, we're hosting an experienced software engineer and testing expert who will introduce us to Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST), a powerful approach for uncovering and reproducing some of the most challenging bugs in distributed systems.
Distributed systems are notorious for producing race conditions, cascading failures, and other issues that only appear under rare combinations of timing and faults. DST makes these failures reproducible, allowing teams to replay and investigate problems that would otherwise be nearly impossible to debug.
Whether you're a QA engineer, software developer, SRE, or architect working on distributed systems, this talk will provide practical insights into a testing approach that can dramatically increase confidence in complex systems.
Join us for an introduction to one of the most powerful techniques for finding bugs before they reach production.

1. Reproducibility changes debugging. A seed, build, and test configuration can replay rare failures deterministically. “Could not reproduce” becomes much less common.
2. Exploration scales with compute, not manual effort. QA defines invariants; the simulator checks them across thousands of randomly generated execution paths and fault combinations. More CPU hours, more interleavings explored.
3. Rust has a particularly strong ecosystem for in-house DST. No GC, explicit async, and trait-based I/O substitution make simulator integration practical. Tools like MadSim and Turmoil cover many core DST needs for async Rust systems. For other stacks, Antithesis offers a language-agnostic, container-level alternative.

Agenda:
18:00: Opening & Pizza's
18:45: Talk "Deterministic Simulation Testing" by Ludwig Weinzierl
20:00 Quiz - How well do you know BrowserStack technology?
20:15 Networking

Main Prize of the Quiz: Extended BrowserStack subscription

Take advantage of this exceptional opportunity to network with industry experts, exchange ideas, and explore cutting-edge developments in the QA field.

Few notes:
This will be an In-person event
Mark your calendars and reserve your spot now!
We can't wait to see you there!