TestCon Europe 2026
October 20-23
Vilnius & Online
Chris Harbert
About
Chris Harbert is an industry executive, international conference speaker, host of the Developers Who Test podcast, an MBA graduate and Founder & CEO of Testery.
His passion for software test automation began nearly twenty years ago when he was a developer practicing test-driven development at a company that was an early adopter of Agile practices.
Today, he shares this knowledge and experience with others to help teams ship higher-quality software faster — and have more fun doing it.
https://chrisharbert.com/speaking
Chris Harbert | Capturing the Mythical Green Build
For years, achieving 100% green end-to-end (E2E) test runs has felt like chasing a unicorn. In fact, many teams still do not believe it is feasible. Instead, they spend time each sprint reviewing failed tests, drastically scale back their testing scope, or abandon end-to-end tests altogether in favor of unit tests. Unfortunately, each of these approaches has significant drawbacks.
At the same time, other teams are now consistently and reliably achieving 100% green end-to-end test runs. In this session, Chris Harbert challenges the conventional wisdom that 100% green end-to-end test runs are unattainable.
Through practical strategies such as ephemeral environments, parallel testing, disciplined test code management, and cross-team collaboration, he demonstrates how high-performing teams achieve 100% green end-to-end test runs - not as a fluke, but consistently and reliably.
The best part? Organizations do not need to abandon their current framework or rewrite everything from scratch.
Chris explores the root causes of flaky tests and provides actionable techniques that can be implemented incrementally.
Whether teams are overwhelmed by false failures or just getting started with E2E testing, they will leave with a roadmap to finally achieve a fully green build.