Testival Meetup #80, Zagreb, Croatia

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Introduction

In April 2026 I have attended Testival meetup #80 (testival.eu, meetup.com).

It was a pretty big meetup, more than sixty people. Since there were so many people, the usual introduction at the beginning took about twenty minutes. A lot of people have very poor microphone skills. It was a big room with a lot of people. If you didn’t speak directly into the microphone, nobody could hear you.

There were three longer talks, a break and one lightning talk.

Talks

There were three talks. All by the people from the host company, Super. I’m not sure I have the correct titles of the talks. I should get slides from the talks soon, so I will update the post.

The host made a mistake of having three talks. One talk is usually enough. Two might work, if they are not too long. But with three talks, there was almost no time to socialize. That is an important part of in person meetups. When the talks were finished, the vast majority of the people left.

AI in QA

There was a lot of prompt engineering. I prefer more engineering, less prompts. To my surprise, there was a lively discussion after the talk. Several people asked questions. I might be one of the rare people not excited by prompt engineering.

AI augmented quality engineering

I’m not sure I even understood what the speaker was talking about. Except, there was plenty of prompt engineering. Again, there was a lively discussion after the talk. I might just be too old and too grumpy.

Load testing

Finally a talk with just engineering and very little prompts. It was about using k6 and Kubernetes. There was another lively discussion after the talk. Some people had questions for every speaker. That’s impressive.

Lightning talks

As the only lightning talk, when most of the people already left, I talked about vibe-composing. It’s an experiment in composing music with Claude Code. The part of the talk was me playing live on my guitar. I didn’t have the time to check how my guitar will sound in the room, so I’m not sure if anybody heard anything. Anyway, I’m glad I got a chance to play in front of a small and friendly audience. If I give a similar talk in the future, I’ll make sure to check the sound first. It’s an important part of the talk.

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