10th Polish Quality Retreat

24 Sep 2025

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In this moment: Piotr Wicherski
This weekend (19-21.09) marked the 10th Polish Quality Retreat πŸŽ‰

It's been over 6 years since our first Retreat on 22.03.2019

- 10 official Retreats
- 20 active members
- 30 days of inspiration
- 78 months of online discussions
- ~100 topics explored
- 76,851 messages on Slack

This is the essence of a conference for Quality Assurance experts.

Tracing past discussion notes, it's interesting to see how our focus, problems, challenges, and the whole market have changed over those years.

But you know what didn't change?
"If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything", Ronald Coase.
Piotr Wicherski
Lead Mobile QA at UEFA

Lead Mobile QA at UEFA.

17+ years of expertise in Mobile technologies.

Done more than 80 talks and workshops around Mobile QA.

Co-author of ISTQB MAT - Mobile Application Testing.

Simon Tomes
Wow! Bug congrats on those numbers. Impressive!

Rosie Sherry
This is very cool. To encourage others to do similar, how has this changed you for the better?

Piotr Wicherski
I must say, after 16 years in Mobile/IT, it's really hard to find a safe space to discuss important subjects with my peers. Conferences and meetups are great for knowledge sharing, exchanging experiences, challenging ideas etc. However, this feels like a mini think tank. It's a different kind of questions, ideas, and insights when you have a group of people that you can trust and know are your peers. Both Slack and offline meetings fill this gap in my mind, which I couldn't fill any other way

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