Dr. Baris Sarialioglu
Founder, Managing Partner, TesterYou & Codejust
BIO
Baris is an IT professional with 20+ years of experience as a Consultant and a Software Engineer for many different organizations. He has published a number of papers and books within the Software Testing profession and contribute to the field by regularly attending conferences as a public speaker.
Talk:
Testing Like Da Vinci: The Art, Science, and Chaos of Software Quality
Leonardo da Vinci was more than just an artist—he was an engineer, scientist, and relentless tester of ideas. If he were a software tester today, would he rely on automation, exploratory testing, or simply sketch bugs in his notebook?
In this keynote, Barış blends history, humor, and technology to explore what testing can learn from great thinkers like Da Vinci and Aristotle. From balancing empirical observation with structured methodology to striving for perfection in an imperfect world, he’ll uncover how a Renaissance mindset can help testers navigate automation, Agile processes, and AI-driven quality strategies. Because, let’s face it—testing is both an art and a science, and sometimes, it even feels like a masterpiece in the making!
Workshop:
The Tester’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence: From Myths to Metrics
Key topics:
Understanding AI: Human vs. Artificial Intelligence, History of AI, Symbolic & Sub-symbolic AI, Machine Learning algorithms.
Testing AI Systems: Challenges, AI model training, AI test environments, strategies for AI-based testing, key metrics.
AI in Software Testing: How AI is applied to testing tasks, automation, quality management, integration testing.
AI-Based Testing Metrics: Evaluating AI tools, ROI, test case efficiency, maintainability, and defect severity.