Testing, Automation, and AI
Test automation is a hot topic — and a challenging one. Programmers often see it as a coding problem, while testers face growing pressure to automate. Done well, automation can be powerful and valuable, but it also brings complexity.
This three-day class helps you tackle those challenges using the Rapid Software Testing (RST) approach. We start from the idea that testing is about learning — through experience, exploration, and experimentation.
You’ll learn how to apply tools thoughtfully in testing, understand which parts can and can't be automated, and explore creative, low-cost ways to support testing beyond GUI and API checks. We’ll help you assess value, avoid common traps, and work effectively whether or not you write code.
We’ll also examine AI — both how to test it, and how it might (or might not) support your work. As AI becomes a buzzword and black box, testers must learn how to evaluate its risks and behavior responsibly.
This class is tool-agnostic and vendor-independent. We'll use tools, but we don’t promote any. Instead, we focus on building your critical thinking, so you can choose and use tools wisely — in the real world of testing.
Who Should Take This Training
Testers, Automation, and AI is for you if...
- you are a developer or a tester who is comfortable with writing code. We will help you see many ways of applying your coding skills to testing.
- you are a tester who does not code. We will help you understand possibilities and challenges of creating automation, and help you to learn to ask for what you need.
- you are a tester, developer, or manager responsible for testing an AI-based product. We will help you develop approaches to test capably and efficiently, with a focus on problems and business risk.
- you are a tester or developer under pressure to use AI in your work. We will help you to evaluate and apply AI-based tools in responsible ways.
- you are a quality coach or manager who is responsible for bringing in automation. We will help you create a strategy that avoids the common traps.
- you are from an organization that is struggling with existing automation. We will help you understand your situation and form a plan to improve the situation.
- you are a supporter of skilled, responsible testing, and you feel that you are under attack by technologists who think they can automate everything. We will help you defend your team and your work.
Goals of Testers, Automation, and AI
The primary goal of this class is to teach you how to plan and administer an effective strategy for applying automation and tools to software testing.
A secondary goal is to help you avoid common traps that cause automation to be inefffective, or to suck the life and value out of testing.
Main Topics Covered
This class is taught Socratically, with exercises, discussions and illustrations of automation within the RST methodology. Class discussions and debate address students’ questions and specific needs. We all learn from the unique perspective that each student brings to the class.
How This Class Compares To Our Other RST Classes
We talk a lot about test strategy and a little about automation in each of our classes. This class focuses on incorporating tools and automation into your test strategy. However, this class does not attempt to teach you the mechanics of how to code or how to test.
Prices (incl VAT)
Regular ticket 22 000 kr
Early bird ticket 19 500 kr (until sep 8 2025)
Group ticket, minimum 5 people 19 800 kr
Early bird group ticket, minimum 5 people 17 550 kr (until sep 8 2025)
