All talks since 2009
Talks, keynotes, workshops, moderation, panels and podcasts. German titles are kept in German.
2027
- DeveloPairing: two people, one driver – magic?
2026
- Tests! Dashboards! Monitoring! I don’t care what it’s called as long as you can show it works
- Dirigent werden oder zweite Geige spielen? Wandlung, Chancen und Risiken mit KI
- Souverän in Komplexität: Experimente statt Best Practices mit KI
- DeveloPairing: two people, one driver – magic?
- Open Space (moderation)
- The Pruggern Paper (panel)
2025
- Open Space (moderation)
- Tests! Dashboards! Monitoring! I don’t care what it’s called as long as you can show it works
- Cultivating the explorer’s mindset to succeed in holistic teams
- Holistic Testing: Strategies for Agile Teams (tutorial)
- Darf es auch einfach sein? Pragmatische Ansätze zu Software Entscheidungen
- Transformation, disruptive thinking and mindset
- Leadership observability: explaining our workings for ourselves and others
2024
- Help, I jedi-d too hard and became a leader!
- Leadership Observability
- Do we really need an app for that?
- Predicting the Future of Quality, Testing and Teams
2023
- Open Space (moderation)
- A Fighting Chance – Learning the Art of Conflict Resolution
- Minimalistic development: testing hypotheses by shipping and observing
- Maximales Lernen durch minimale Programmierung: Erfolge, Fehler und Lessons Learned
- What’s going to happen? (Potentially wrong) predictions about the future of quality, testing and teams
- Unit Testing and TDD from the tester perspective
- Experience Test Driven Development for Testers! (workshop)
- Lean Coffee (moderation)
- Exploratory Testing for Everyone (workshop)
- Appreciation and Feedback
2022
- Looking into the future: The shape of testing, teams and the world
- Quality from the CEO Perspective
- A Journey to Sustainability
- Open Space (moderation)
- Exploratory Testing for Everyone (workshop)
- Comb shaping for developers, testers and everyone
- Drawing Lines Around the Fog: The Shape of Testers, Teams, and the World
- Software investigation and exploration (workshop)
- Question Askers
- Supercharge your exploratory testing (workshop)
- Lean Coffee (moderation)
2021
- Quality Archaeology: Learning From The Past To Understand The Present and The Future
- Unit Testing and TDD from the tester perspective: how to learn, practice and even contribute
- Open Space (moderation)
- Quality Archaeology: Learning From The Past To Understand The Present and The Future
- Event moderation
- Agile Mindset
- Quality Archaeology: Learning From The Past To Understand The Present and The Future
- Becoming an Agile People Manager
- Mentale Gesundheit für agile Teams und Organisationen
- Agile Führung: Fürsorge, Fordern und Fördern für sich selbst und andere
- The role of testers in AI projects
- Unit Testing and TDD from the tester perspective: how to learn, practice and even contribute
- Geht’s auch kleiner? Mikroheuristiken im explorativen Testen (Best Talk Award)
- Ask Me Anything on Exploratory Testing
- Agiles Testmanagement: Gibt es das überhaupt und wenn ja, wie?
- The future of women in agile
- Alles ist verbunden, alles ist kaputt: Wege aus dem Qualitätsdefizit bei vernetzten Systemen unter Berücksichtigung des IT-Grundschutzes
- Whole team holistic quality: for product, processes and people
- Wird schon schiefgehen: Qualitätssicherung und die Rolle von Testern im IoT
- Enabling Whole Team Quality as a Tester in an Agile Team (workshop)
- Becoming an Agile People Manager
2020
- Agile Leadership
- Badgile: the gameshow
- There may be trouble ahead: the future of quality in a networked world
- Unit Testing und TDD für Tester (workshop)
- Geht’s auch kleiner? Mikroheuristiken im Explorativen Testen
- Experiencing the Highs and Lows of Unit Testing and Test Driven Development (workshop)
- Learning through Exploration
- Whole Team Quality: Product, Process, People
- There may be trouble ahead: Die Zukunft von Qualitätssicherung in der vernetzten Welt
- Agile Führung: Wie geht das für Manager und Mitarbeiter?
- Nurturing a Healthy Culture (panel)
- Wird schon schiefgehen: Qualitätssicherung und die Rolle von Testern in IoT
- Wird schon schiefgehen: Qualitätssicherung und die Rolle von Testern in IoT
2019
- Ab vom Hamsterrad: Stress und mentale Last in agilen Teams und Organisationen
- Whole Team Quality: Gemeinsam gewinnen oder gemeinsam scheitern?
- Becoming an agile people manager
- Agile Mindset Workshop
- Jedi Mind Tricks for Testers
- Vom Herumklicken zum Expertentester: die Macht des Explorativen Testens (webinar)
- Whole Team Quality: Gemeinsam gewinnen oder gemeinsam scheitern?
- Agile Organisations and Open Space
- Exploratory Testing: What are Microheuristics and how can you find and use them? (webinar)
- Bad-gile: the gameshow
- Software investigation & exploration – Supercharging your value (workshop)
- The power of exploration
- Exploratory Testing Tutorial: From basics to heuristics
- Learn to become a public speaker (workshop)
- Explicit exploring using testopsies and microheuristics (workshop)
- Why should exploratory testing even be the subject of a keynote?
- Alex Schladebeck on testing
- Empathic management
- Heuristics and hunches in Exploratory Testing
- Exploratory Testing for Everyone
- Wie sehen die Tester der Zukunft aus?
- Whole Team Quality: In the same boat or up the creek?
- Heuristics and hunches in Exploratory Testing
- How to listen to your tests
- Exploratory Testing for Everyone (workshop)
2018
- Wie sehen die Tester der Zukunft aus?
- Whole Team Quality: In the same boat or up the creek?
- Leadership for testers in agile teams (workshop)
- Get off the hamster wheel and start adding value!
- Exploratory Testing Challenge
- Time to Lead – Communication and Enablement for Testers in an Agile Team (workshop)
- What do the testers of the future look like?
- Jedi Mind Tricks for Testers
- Wie sehen die Tester der Zukunft aus?
- Get off the hamster wheel and start adding value!
- Storytelling for agile (testing) professionals (workshop)
- Dear future me…
- Let’s stop talking about Testing, let’s start thinking about value
- Wie kann „Quality From The Beginning“ in agilen Projekten erreicht werden?
- Testopsy – dissecting your testing (workshop)
- Let’s stop talking about Testing, let’s start thinking about value
- Dear future me…
- Time to Lead – Communication and Enablement for Testers in an Agile Team (workshop)
- What agile teams can learn from World of Warcraft
- Exploratory Testing in Action
- How to stop hating your UI tests
2017
- Testopsy – dissecting your testing
- UI test automation using the Jubula API: the why, the how and the what (tutorial)
- How to stop hating your UI tests
- Whole Team Quality: In the same boat or up the creek?
- Dear future me… a letter to myself about testing, the universe and everything
- What teams can learn from World of Warcraft
- Episode 1
- Quality from the product owner perspective
- How to stop hating your UI tests
- Once Upon a Time…
- Storytelling for agile (testing) professionals (workshop)
- How to stop hating UI tests
- How to stop hating UI tests
- Will your tests stand the test of time? Patterns for automated UI tests
- Sharing the quality responsibility in agile teams
- Quality from the PO perspective – from 6 weeks to one-day release phases
2016
- Once Upon a Time…
- Storytelling for agile (testing) professionals (workshop)
- Growing a Company Test Community: Roles and Paths for Testers
- Automated UI Testing with Jubula
- Qualität aus der Perspektive eines Product Owners
- Once Upon a Time…
- Werden Sie Testheld mit Explorativem Testen und Session Based Test Management! (workshop)
- From Potentials to Slayers – Empowering Teams to Better Quality
- Mythbusters
2015
- Where words fail, music speaks
- Jekyll and Hyde with Jubula
- Test Automation Patterns, workflows and requirement-linking; the next steps on the quality journey
- Eine Qualitätsreise – die wichtigsten Punkte auf dem Weg
- Jekyll and Hyde with Jubula
- Where words fail, music speaks
2014
- Qualitätssicherung für mobile Anwendungen – Fallstudien für GUI-Testautomatisierung
- Automating Tests with Jubula (tutorial)
- Exploratory Testing and Session Based Test Management
- Jubula Tutorial
- Gemeinsam zur Qualität: In der Firma und im Team
- Automating Tests with Jubula (tutorial)
- Improve your manual testing without getting bored!
- QA cookbook, ingredients for a great recipe
2013
- Mobile Test Automation
- Designing software with users and testers in mind
- Testing a Scout Application with JUnit and Jubula
- Driving quality with test automation
- Quality assurance for mobile applications – case studies for GUI test automation
- Usability and testing – two unloved birds with one stone
- Testing mobile applications with Jubula
- Jubula Tutorial – specify, execute, analyse (tutorial)
- Jubula
2012
- Acceptance test driven development and continuous regression testing with Jubula
- The Jubula Tutorial: Round 3 (tutorial)
- Praktische Strategien für Agiles Planen und Schätzen
- Eclipse Jubula: Moving Away from Capture – Replay
- Why working on an agile team is like World of Warcraft
- What agile teams can learn from World of Warcraft
- How the Jubula team tests: Continuous Integration, Test Design, Process
- What’s new and nifty in Jubula
- Cutting the right corners: Achieving the balance between effort and payoff for GUI test automation
2011 (partly as Alex Imrie)
- A quest for quality
- Automatisierte Funktionstests
- Jubula Tutorial
- Jubula
- Offenheit im Entwicklungsprozess: Gnadenlose Transparenz
- Jubula Vorstellung
- Introduction to Jubula
- Preventing Defects from Escaping the Development Phase with Automated Functional Testing
2010 (as Alex Imrie)
- Agile Acceptance Testing: A Case Study
- Test Automation with Keywords: A Case Study
- Knowledge is power: do you know where your quality is tonight?
- Automated acceptance testing in Eclipse applications
- Error handling in automated acceptance tests
- Error Driven Development
2009 (as Alex Imrie)
- Usability in Eclipse Applications
- Usability in Eclipse Applications
- A checklist for automated testing
Writing and interviews
I’m more of a speaker than a writer, but every so often I write an article or give an interview.
- 2025Interview for InfoQ on Leadership Observability (OOP)
- 2023Interview for InfoQ on A Journey to Sustainability (Agile Testing Days)
- 2021Unit Testing und testgetriebene Entwicklung für Tester – ein Erfahrungsbericht, informatik-aktuell
- 2021Interview for OBJEKTspektrum 04/21
- 2019Interview for CukenFest London
- 2018All roads lead to exploratory testing, Women Testers Magazine
- 2018Blog for the ASQF on quality engineering in IoT (German)
- 2018Interview with OTIA about violin playing
- 2018Interview with Searchability about testing
- 2018Live blogging for TestBash Germany
- 2017Blog on the Women in Testing session at EuroSTAR
- 2017Column on UI testing, JAXenter (German)
- 2017New features in Jubula for Eclipse Oxygen, Eclipse Newsletter
- 2017Introduction article for the Romanian Testing Conference
- 2016The ghosts of tests yet to come, Eclipse Newsletter
- 2016Java for Testers, Automation and Whole Team Quality, EuroSTAR blog
- 2016Qualität aus der Perspektive eines Product Owners; ASQF Testing Day Niedersachsen, SQ Magazin
- 2016Project Quality Day Report; Jekyll and Hyde with Jubula, Eclipse Magazin
- 2015Some words about words, Women Testers
- 2015Writing Jubula tests in Java, Eclipse Newsletter
- 2015Schlaglichter auf Eclipse Mars, JAXenter, later in Eclipse Magazin
- 2014Automated Acceptance Tests for Mobile Applications: Thoughts on Test Strategy, Testing Experience, with Markus Tiede; Round-up of the Project Quality Day, Eclipse Magazin
- 2013Automatisierte Tests im mobilen Umfeld, Eclipse Magazin; Automatische Akzeptanztests für mobile Anwendungen, Testing Experience DE, both with Markus Tiede
- 2011Accepting and embracing change in automated acceptance tests with Jubula, Testing Experience; Jubula: Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft, SQ Magazin; Jubeln mit Jubula, Eclipse Magazin; Introducing Jubula, Java Tech Magazine (partly as Alex Imrie)
- 2010Usability in Eclipse Anwendungen (Teil 2), Eclipse Magazin, with Achim Lörke; Event Handling in Automated Acceptance Tests, Testing Experience, with Markus Tiede; The double-edged sword of feature-driven development, Agile Record (as Alex Imrie)
- 2009Automatisiertes Testen von RCP Anwendungen; Usability in Eclipse Anwendungen (Teil 1), with Achim Lörke, both Eclipse Magazin (as Alex Imrie)