Hustef 2018 – Sketchnotes and Recap~ 3 min.

In the end of October the Hustef 2018 took place in Budapest, Hungary. It is a conference about software testing that has been founded by the Hungarian Testing Board (HTB). It was my first time at this conference and I was quite overwhelmed by its beautiful venue (Várkert Bazár) and its location. Just beneath the Budapest Castle, few minutes walking from the Chain Bridge. Plus the weather was just amazing – it was almost November and you could still walk around in a t-shirt.

There were about 660 attendees from more than 24 countries which made it a very diverse crowd. Although a huge part was from the local community. What I find really interesting, is, that, apart from some well-known speakers like Tariq King, Rob Lambert, Isabel Evans (who also has been the program chair), Gáspár Nagy, Gwen Stewart or Corina Pip, I didn’t know most of the speakers. I find this awesome. Lots of the speakers were from Hungary and the surrounding countries and I not only got to know new people but also heard talks from people I have never seen presenting a talk before.

The first day was the tutorial day – you could choose between six tutorials and attend two of them. The second and third day were the actual conference days with all the keynotes and talks. I attended the two tutorials about communication, held by Rob Lambert and during the conference I mainly listened to the keynotes and the talks in session 1. If you are interested in getting more information on what the talks were about, here are my sketchnotes of the Hustef 2018 talks I attended:

Tutorial: Embracing the diversity of communication styles

Rob Lambert

Tutorial: Non-verbal communication – a superpower in the world of work

Rob Lambert

Keynote: Rise of the Machines: Can Artificial Intelligence Terminate Manual Testing?

Tariq King

Keynote: Give me back my quality!

Gwen Stewart

Seven proven ways to ruin your Test Automation

Seretta Gamba

7 deadlier sins of quality

Tomasz Dubikowski

Testing Techniques for Critical Deep Learning Applications

András Vörös

In the world full of bugs explore like Bear Grylls

Joanna Jeziorska

A testing journey in the age of smart assistants

Geoff Meyer

Digital Transformation of the World – New Challenges in Testing

Levente Erös and Balázs Supola

Hack My House! DIY home automation testing

Levente Németh

Yet again an upside-down test pyramid – what can we do about it?

János Gór

Keynote: Risk – our friend or our foe?

Isabel Evans

Metric-driven software testing

Attila Fekete

Collective intelligence in test and scrum teams

Ewa Marchewka

Are you releasing the right product

Rohit Singhal

Just doing scrums won‘t win the game

Stina Leijonhufvud

Keynote: How I became a tester! Breaking silos within cross-functional teams

Almudena Rodriguez Pardo

Keynote: Devices and desires: How do humans experience software

Isabel Evans

I hope that you enjoy my sketchnotes and that you can get some information out of it. Otherwise just contact the speakers to get more info or the slides. If you have been at Hustef 2018 as well, feel free to leave your comments or additions. I’m happy to receive some feedback.