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Nordic Testing Days 2026: From Software Testing to AI Confidence

June 8th, 2026

Nordic Testing Days 2026 in Tallinn, Estonia was a timely reminder that the testing profession is not standing still. As artificial intelligence becomes embedded into products, workflows, chatbots, agents, and decision-support systems, the role of testers is expanding beyond traditional verification. We are increasingly being asked to provide something broader and more valuable: confidence.

The conference, held June 3-5, 2026, brought together testers, quality engineers, developers, AI practitioners, and technology leaders under the banner of a community event “by testers for testers.” The 2026 speaker lineup included practitioners from across the testing and quality ecosystem, including Kristel Kruustük, Nicole van Gijn, Jonathon Wright, and myself representing Inflectra.

For me, the experience started even before the conference opened. Tallinn itself provided a fitting backdrop for the conversations that followed. The city is a striking blend of old and new: medieval streets, Soviet-era structures, modern digital infrastructure, and a strong sense of technological identity. That contrast felt highly relevant to where software quality is today. We are taking decades of testing discipline and applying it to a new generation of systems that are probabilistic, adaptive, and often difficult to evaluate using traditional methods alone.

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