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Track Talk, W11

If I Could Turn Back Time, Testing Differences I Would Make

Lloyd Roden

15:30 - 16:15 CEST , Wednesday 17th June

I have been in the test industry for over 40 years and have learnt many valuable lessons. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and if I had my time again, I would do many things differently both as a tester and test manager. Aspects such as: 

* Test Estimation 

As a Test Manager, I had always found estimating testing difficult and once I had created and presented the estimate to my management, found myself in endless arguments trying to defend my estimate. I would now do things very differently. 

* Release Decisions 

One of the worst moves of my career was to demand that I made the release decision. The release decision should never reside with the testers/test manager. I explore how we can become a signpost pointing stakeholders in the right direction. 

* Test Plans 

Is the written test plan really that important? Does anyone read these documents? I produced test plans on many projects throughout my career and now I question their validity and if we can create something different and more powerful. 

* Test Reports 

I have reported to many different levels of management and can honestly say that the higher the management the less information they want. As test managers we need to ask them what they want in terms of information and I will explore how we can use trend analysis to predict what is going to happen. 

* More manual testing 

I am a firm believer in test automation and am convinced that we need it more than ever in today’s IT environment. However, I have seen a trend that seems to be to do more automation and less manual testing. Test automation is not the best at finding the failures of the software. I will explain how we can provide more manual testing throughout the project. 

What you will learn

  1. Learn from my mistakes
  2. Simple lessons to learn to improve your effectiveness
  3. Fundamental differences that will change your outlook on testing

Session Details

  • Intermediate
  • 45 minutes
  • Includes 15 mins Q&A
  • Efficiencies and new capabilities
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Check out this video from Lloyd Roden to hear more about his talk on If I Could Turn Back Time, Testing Differences I Would Make.

We look forward to welcoming you to EuroSTAR 2026.

Session Speakers

Lloyd Roden

Lloyd Roden Consultancy Ltd, United Kingdom

With more than forty years in the software industry, I have worked as a Developer, Test Analyst and Test Manager for a

variety of different organisations. I am a director of Lloyd Roden Consultancy which specialises in training and consultancy in software testing.

My passion is to enthuse, excite and inspire people in the area of software testing. I believe that any work that I do must be relevant, practical and must make a difference to both the individual and the company they work for.

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