What if I told you that there is an entire world of lesser-known, underutilized testing tools, libraries, and features waiting to elevate your testing game? You will see live demonstrations of a plethora of these hidden gems, carefully curated to empower you in unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. This includes both tools for Java backends as well as JavaScript / TypeScript frontends and some technology-independent tools.

As you absorb the knowledge and sharpen your skills, you will accumulate an impressive set of tools in your testing toolbox. However, a word of caution: your toolbox may grow heavy with all these new additions. You will leave this talk armed with newfound knowledge, but make sure you can still lift your toolbox by the end of it!

I talked to Philip Riecks at a conference, I mentioned some testing tools that it turned out he didn't know before but found very interesting, upon which he suggested to me to do a tool-focused talk for testing tools, as I knew quite a lot of them and how to use them effectively that others could benefit knowing from. Additionally, I was inspired by the talk "Java's Hidden Gems: Tools and Libraries" by "Johan Janssen", which is usually quite well-visited and which I enjoyed a lot.