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Enhancing Agile Testing with LLMs: A Guide for Testers

Fran O'Hara

13:30 - 17:00 CEST, Tuesday 3rd June

In today’s agile landscape, the integration of GenAI and specifically Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT presents new ways to improve testing practices across the software development lifecycle. This half-day tutorial is specifically designed for non-technical testers and quality professionals who want to deepen their agile testing skills while simultaneously learning how to enhance these testing practices using LLMs.

We’ll begin by exploring key agile testing practices, including test strategy development, test planning, user story refinement, product risk analysis, test design, test data generation and session-based exploratory testing. Alongside each topic, we’ll explore how LLMs can support and improve these activities by using examples and hands-on exercises.

While we will briefly discuss how LLMs can contribute to test automation, the session will primarily focus on areas that do not require coding or scripting experience. Special attention will be given to prompt engineering techniques and effective prompting strategies, enabling testers to extract the maximum value from these rapidly evolving AI tools.

A realistic product backlog case study will form the basis of our team-based exercises, allowing you to engage in hands-on experimentation will LLM-driven testing approaches.

As you explore these techniques, you’ll assess their relevance and effectiveness within your specific testing context. This practical, interactive approach fosters critical thinking about when and how to best integrate LLMs into your agile testing activities. You’ll also gain a deeper understanding of the potential risks and limitations of AI, ensuring that these tools are used to augment—rather than replace—your expertise in delivering high-quality software.

This session is ideal for testers looking to leverage LLMs to enhance their agile testing practices while staying grounded in human judgment and domain knowledge.

Attendees will need laptop with access to an LLM such as ChatGPT-4o.

What you will learn

  1. Practical GenAI Integration for Testers: Discover how to integrate LLMs into agile testing activities such as test planning, user story refinement, risk analysis, test design and exploratory testing.
  2. Master Prompt Engineering Techniques: Learn how to apply effective prompting strategies to get the most out of AI tools like ChatGPT, enhancing your test design and decision-making processes.
  3. Balanced AI Adoption: Gain insights into the strengths, limitations, and risks of using LLMs in agile testing, equipping you to make informed decisions on how to best use these tools while maintaining your critical role in ensuring software quality.

Session Details

  • Introductory
  • Half day
  • Interactive Tutorial
  • Implementing/integrating AI tools
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Check out this video from Fran O’Hara to hear more about her talk, ‘Enhancing Agile Testing with LLMs: A Guide for Testers.’

We look forward to welcoming you to EuroSTAR 2025.

Session Speaker

Fran O'Hara, EuroSTAR conference speaker

Fran O’Hara

Inspire, Ireland

Fran has over 35 years experience in the software industry having worked in development, test, management and now consulting. He co-founded Insight Test Services which was subsequently acquired by Sogeti. Fran now specialises in pragmatic approaches to lean/agile adoption, quality/testing, and associated practices. He works with a wide variety of clients helping to upskill teams and support improvements in their ways of working.

He is a regular speaker at international conferences and seminars. Fran is a Certified/Professional ScrumMaster, Professional Product Owner, an ISTQB testing tutor at advanced level, and previously a CMMI and TMMi lead assessor.

He co-organised Agile Tour Ireland and co-founded the Irish SIG in Software Testing – SoftTest. His tutorial ’Metamorphosis: Moving To Agile And Staying Agile’ won best tutorial at EuroSTAR Stockholm.

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