Every year, we celebrate our incredible, inspirational community of testers who continuously strive to improve software testing for everyone. We invite you to help us highlight your testing heroes, the people who have forged new paths for testing, those who help mould and encourage our testers of the future and those that inspire you.
The winners are decided by the community. Whether you nominate your testing hero for the EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award, encourage a colleague to submit an idea for the RisingSTAR Award or vote for your favourite Tutorial at the EuroSTAR Conference, you can help make a difference!
Testing Excellence Award 2024
The 2024 EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award winner was Mark Fewster. This prestigious award recognises the people who have most influenced our testing careers – colleagues, mentors, coaches, and all those who help us achieve more.
This is a peer nominated award driven by the testing community. The 2025 Nominations will open again next February.
The EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award is the highest honour bestowed by our community. This is the longest running award in software testing and is the ultimate recognition for those that continually give to the testing community.
This award has been won by some of the most influential testers in the world including Gerald Weinberg (Jerry), Dorothy Graham, Martin Pol, Isabel Evans and Maaret Pyhäjärvi.
RisingSTAR Award
Bart van Raemdonck was the EuroSTAR 2024 RisingSTAR winner, for his idea of creating a Quality Evolution Tracker that revolutionizes quality measurement of a product.
The RisingSTAR Award was created in 2018 to stimulate innovation in the software testing industry. It aims to encourage testers to develop new ideas and provide support through mentorship.
EuroSTAR Conference Awards
In addition to the Testing Excellence Award and RisingSTAR Award, we also celebrate our EuroSTAR speakers. Each year more than fifty testing experts, trainers, teachers and leaders share their knowledge with the attendees of the EuroSTAR Conference. Every year, we welcome 60+ speakers, all sharing their experience, challenges and solutions so that our conference attendees can bring new ideas and new ways of improving their testing back to the workplace. To recognise their continual dedication, we award the Best Conference Tutorial every year.
Best Tutorial
The Best Tutorial award has been a feature of the EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference since 2003. This Award is presented to the tutorial speaker who receives the highest score from attending delegates based on the content of their talk and presentation ability. The Best Tutorial Award has been awarded to some of the most notable professionals in the world of software testing including James Whittaker, Erik van Veenendaal, Anne Colder & Jantien van de Meer amongst others. Rikard Edgren has been voted the 2024 EuroSTAR Best Tutorial for Think Like a Tester.