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Before You Prompt ...

180-minute Workshop

The output is only as good as the question behind it.

Timetable

1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Tuesday 17th

Room

Room D1+D2 - Track 6: Workshops

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Collaboration & Communication Testability

Audience

QA professionals, test leads, and technical consultants evaluating AI tools

Key-Learnings

  • A reusable template for turning any vague AI hope into a specific, testable question, ready to apply to your own work the following week
  • A three-part prompt structure (scope, context, brainstorming ask) built from a clear question rather than guesswork
  • Hands-on practice evaluating AI-generated scenarios against explicit criteria, so the judgement process is concrete rather than theoretical

The problem with your AI output started before you typed a word

Every team I work with has the same complaint about AI: the output is generic. They try better prompts, more context, a different model. Sometimes it helps. But the problem usually started earlier, at the moment they decided what to ask the AI, without first being clear on what a useful answer would look like.

This workshop works through that moment in two passes, using a shared fictional feature as the working material throughout. In the first, you will take a vague hope about AI and turn it into a specific, testable question for that feature. What would success look like? What would make the output unsafe? Could you run this evaluation by Friday? Most teams skip this step entirely, which is why their evaluations end inconclusively.

In the second pass, you will take that now-specific question and use it to construct a better prompt: narrower, more contextual, asking for brainstorming material rather than finished work. You will see how clarity before the prompt changes what comes back.

The final exercise gives you the actual AI output that prompt produced, printed on cards. No laptops, no wifi. Your job is to evaluate those scenarios against the question you developed in the first pass.

You will leave with a template for building both: the question that makes evaluation possible, and the prompt that makes AI output worth having.

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