EuroSTAR 2023 Programme | Software Testing Conference Europe

EuroSTAR 2022 Programme

The 2023 EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference will take place at Flanders Convention Centre, next to Antwerp Zoo in Belgium. The theme of EuroSTAR 2023 is ‘Software Development is a Social Activity‘.

Our 2023 Call for Submissions closed in September, the submissions have been reviewed by our community reviewers and our Programme Committee are currently finalising their selection of talks.

The 2023 Programe will soon be released. In the meantime, to see the quality talks at EuroSTAR – download our 2022 programme. Talks listed below are from EuroSTAR 2022.

Day	Time	Session	Topic	Title	Learn More
Tuesday	TUESDAY 7TH JUNE CEST
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial A	Agile Testing, DevOps	Shaping Testing – A Simulation in Scrum (Full Day) Fran O'Hara Inspire Quality Services, Ireland	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial B	People/Skills, Coaching & Skills	Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Testers (Full Day) Andrew Brown Expleo, UK	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial C	Test Management, Approaches & Techniques	Test Design with Data Combination Testing and Classification Trees (Full Day) Rik Marselis Sogeti, Netherlands	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial D	A.I., Test Automation, Approaches & Techniques	Automate BDD scenarios with SpecFlow (Full Day) Gáspár Nagy Spec Solutions, Hungary	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial E	Test Management, People/Skills, Approaches & Techniques	Questions, Questions (Half Day) James Lyndsay Workroom Productions, UK	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial F	Test Automation, Agile Testing, DevOps	From Business Workflows to Automated Tests (Half Day) Anne Kramer Global CSM, France	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial G	Approaches & Techniques, Functional testing	Exploring Context Driven Testing & Exploratory Testing (Half Day) Nancy Kelln Unimagined Testing, Canada	More
Tuesday	12:30^CEST	Lunchtime		Meet & Mingle with your Community
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial H	Test Automation, Non-Functional testing, Approaches & Techniques	SOLD OUT - Automatic Accessibility Testing for All (Half Day) Cecilie Haugstvedt SOCO, Norway	More
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial I	Approaches & Techniques, People/Skills, Measuring & Delivering Value	Simplicity: Distilling and Refining Test Communication (Half Day) Rick Tracy Hapalion Consultancy, Netherlands	More
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial J	Approaches & Techniques, People/Skills, Teams & Culture	The Good, The Bad, and The Biased (Half Day) Emma Lilliestam & Hanna Schlander Devoteam Creative Tech, Sweden	More
Wednesday	WEDNESDAY 8TH JUNE CEST
Wednesday	09:00^WED	Welcome		Opening Remarks from the EuroSTAR Programme Chair 2022 Graham Freeburn Programme Chair, UK
Wednesday	09:15^WED	Keynote	People/Skills, Coaching & Skills	My Essence of Testing: Understanding Relations Rikard Edgren Nordic Medtest, Sweden	More
Wednesday	10:15^WED	Break		Morning Break – Visit The Test Tools EXPO
Wednesday	11:00^WED	W1	People/Skills, Teams & Culture	The Story of a Tester: Shaped by Testing; Shaping Testing Dorothy Graham Independent, UK	More
Wednesday	11:00^WED	W2	Test Management, Approaches & Techniques	Defects Don't Kill You; They Make You Stronger Rawad Mansour Murex Systems, Lebanon	More
Wednesday	11:00^WED	W3	Approaches & Techniques, A.I., New Technologies & Challenges	Testing Self-Driving Cars in a Big Data World Johan Jonasson & Sofie Lindgren Arriver & Veoneer, Sweden	More
Wednesday	11:00^WED	W4	Test Management, Approaches & Techniques, Test Strategies	Testing Ponchos - One Size NEVER Fits All! Jackie McDougall Planisware, USA	More
Wednesday	11:00^WED	W5	Approaches & Techniques, Test Management, Coaching & Skills	Why Testing Should Make Its Models Explicit James Walker Curiosity Software, UK	More
Wednesday	12:00^WED	W6	People/Skills, Coaching & Skills	New & Old Work: Shaping your Post Pandemic Testing Career Ryan Volker Targobank, Germany	More
Wednesday	12:00^WED	W7	People/Skills, Diversity & Inclusion	You Don't Talk about THAT at Work Sophie Küster Cronn, Germany	More
Wednesday	12:00^WED	W8	Test Management, People/Skills, New Technologies & Challenges	Get Sensitive Data OUT of Testing Huw Price Curiosity Software, UK	More
Wednesday	12:00^WED	W9	People/Skills, Teams & Culture	Thanks, I Hate It: Being Grateful for Failure Dylan Lacey Sauce Labs, Australia	More
Wednesday	12:00^WED	W10	Approaches & Techniques, Functional testing, People/Skills, Teams & Culture	Error 404: Context Not Found Chris Armstrong Provar, UK	More
Wednesday	12:45^WED	Lunchtime		Join us in the EXPO for Lunch
Wednesday	13:45^WED	Keynote	People/Skills, A.I., New Technologies & Challenges	Testing, Engineering, Tools & Futures Paul Gerrard Gerrard Consulting, UK	More
Wednesday	14:45^WED	Break		Afternoon Break – Check out the Huddle Area in the EXPO
Wednesday	15:30^WED	W11	Approaches & Techniques, Test Automation, New Technologies & Challenges	Mama Said My Shape Was Okay Jihad Ghandour Murex, Lebanon	More
Wednesday	15:30^WED	W12	Non-Functional testing, Coaching & Skills	The Security Manifesto Keith Yorkston Quality Risk Management, UK	More
Wednesday	15:30^WED	W13	People/Skills, Test Management, Teams & Culture	Take Charge! Unbend Yourself Back into Action Brijesh Deb Infosys, Netherlands	More
Wednesday	15:30^WED	W14	Test Management, Test Strategies	Shaping a Test Team Paco Lorca ODILO, Spain	More
Wednesday	15:30^WED	W15	Non-Functional testing, New Technologies & Challenges	“OK Mobi, take me to exit East" Indoor Navi for Blind People Helmut Pichler Nagarro, Austria	More
Wednesday	16:30^WED	W16	Functional testing, People/Skills, Teams & Culture	Solving Problems by Applying 'Systems Thinking' to Ourselves Andrew Brown Expleo, UK	More
Wednesday	16:30^WED	W17	Functional testing, Approaches & Techniques	Drawing for Effective Testing and Learning Davrondzhon Gafurov Norsk Helsenett, Norway	More
Wednesday	16:30^WED	W18	Test Management, Test Strategies	Testing Unlocked - A Tale of Main and Side Quests Zoran Gjorgiev InnoGames, Germany	More
Wednesday	16:30^WED	W19	Agile Testing, Measuring & Delivering Value	UX Testing in Agile Teams Kimberly Snoyl Capgemini Netherlands	More
Wednesday	16:30^WED	W20	A.I., Measuring & Delivering Value	AI-based Testing will Keep You Relevant in Tomorrows Digital Evolution Ayal Cohen Micro Focus, Israel	More
Wednesday	17:15^WED	NETWORK		EXPO Community Networking Event An opportunity to catch up with friends & make new connections
Thursday	THURSDAY 9TH JUNE CEST
Thursday	09:00^THUR	Th1	Functional testing, Approaches & Techniques	A Square Peg in a Round Hole? Using Big Ideas to Shape a Small Team Katherine Haigh CoreFiling, UK	More
Thursday	09:00^THUR	Th2	Test Automation, Approaches & Techniques	Shaping Testing into Models for Automated Test Case Generation and Execution Minh Nguyen QualiTest, Norway	More
Thursday	09:00^THUR	Th3	DevOps, Coaching & Skills	DevOps Testing, How to Get into T-shape Gerard van Engelen Testpeople, Netherlands	More
Thursday	09:00^THUR	Th4	People/Skills, Test Management, Delivering Requirements	The 7Ps rule; Proper Planning & Preparation, Prevents P... Poor Performance Søren Wassard TestHuset , Denmark	More
Thursday	09:00^THUR	Th5	DevOps, Engineering, Craftsmanship, Methods & Life-cycles	Chaos Engineering with Docker Compose Richard Rostad Promis Qualify, Norway	More
Thursday	10:00^THUR	Th6	People/Skills, Coaching & Skills , Teams & Culture	Nudging the Quality Martin Pihl Memmo, Sweden	More
Thursday	10:00^THUR	Th7	Test Automation, Engineering, Craftsmanship, Methods & Life-cycles	Put Your TestOps Shoes On! Dawid Pacia Docplanner, Poland	More
Thursday	10:00^THUR	Th8	People/Skills, Test Management, Coaching & Skills	Test Manager, Orchestrator or Quality Coach? Gitte Ottosen Key2Quality, Denmark	More
Thursday	10:00^THUR	Th9	People/Skills, Diversity & Inclusion	The Data Bias Michaël Pilaeten CTG, Belgium	More
Thursday	10:00^THUR	Th10	Non-Functional testing, Organising, Performing & Exploring	What is Information Assurance? Declan O'Riordan Cabinet Office, UK	More
Thursday	10:45^THUR	Break		Morning Break – Connect with your fellow Attendees
Thursday	11:30^THUR	Keynote	Test Automation, New Technologies & Challenges	Lost in Transformation Michael Bolton DevelopSense, Canada	More
Thursday	12:30^THUR	Lunchtime		Join us for Lunch in the EXPO Hall
Thursday	13:30^THUR	7 Talks	Test Automation, Agile Testing	Supersonic Stage 7 EuroSTAR Programme Chairs – 99 seconds each Join us for 7 Different Stories
Thursday	13:45^THUR	Keynote	People/Skills	Drawing Lines Around the Fog: The Shape of Testers, Teams and the World Alex Schladebeck Bredex, Germany	More
Thursday	14:45^THUR	Break		Afternoon Break – Check out the Huddle Area in the EXPO
Thursday	15:30^THUR	Th11	Test Automation, Agile Testing, People/Skills, Teams & Culture	Waterfall Testing to Agile QA - Successfully Transforming a Bank's Setup Pia Wiedermayer Zuehlke, Switzerland	More
Thursday	15:30^THUR	Th12	Test Management, Measuring & Delivering Value	How a Confidence Monitor Supports Decision Making in your Organization Ard Kramer OrangeCrest, Netherlands	More
Thursday	15:30^THUR	Th13	Non-Functional testing, Approaches & Techniques	A Practical Approach to Continuous Application Security Testing Leela A. Putten Qualiblaze, South Africa	More
Thursday	15:30^THUR	Th14	Non-Functional testing, Engineering, Craftsmanship, Methods & Life-cycles	Accelerating Quality with Tree-shaped Testing Lalitkumar Bhamare Accenture Interactive, Germany	More
Thursday	15:30^THUR	Th15	Test Automation, Coaching & Skills	Toolsmithing - A Live Coding Session Crafting Test Tools on Stage (Workshop) Kristoffer Nordström Northern Test Consulting, Sweden	More
Thursday	16:30^THUR	Th16	Agile Testing, Approaches & Techniques	Remote Ensemble Testing - From Experiment to Common Practice Andrea Jensen NCVS, Germany	More
Thursday	16:30^THUR	Th17	Test Management, People/Skills, Test Strategies	Shaping a Fast Growing Team like a Bonsai Seema Prabhu MotorK, UK	More
Thursday	16:30^THUR	Th18	Test Automation, DevOps, Pipelines & Continuous Testing	How testing is evolving in DevOps Szilard Szell DevOps Lead – Eficode Oy, Finland	More
Thursday	16:30^THUR	Th19	A.I., New Technologies & Challenges	Machine Learning: The Problems We Don't Speak Of! Martin Karsberg & Elias Sonnsjö Infotiv, Sweden	More
Thursday	16:30^THUR	Th15	Test Automation, Coaching & Skills	Toolsmithing - Crafting Test Tools on Stage (Contd) Kristoffer Nordström Northern Test Consulting, Sweden	More
Thursday	19:00^THUR	NETWORK		Gala Awards Dinner Awards & Entertainment Celebrating 30 Years of EuroSTAR
Friday	FRIDAY 10TH JUNE CEST
Friday	09:00^FRI	F1	People/Skills, Teams & Culture	Phoenix Stories of Agile Error Culture Irina Malgina BDO Holding, Netherlands	More
Friday	09:00^FRI	F2	Test Management, Engineering, Craftsmanship, Methods & Life-cycles	What’s your Test Design Debt? Avoid the Inevitable! Wim Decoutere CTG, Belgium	More
Friday	09:00^FRI	F3	Test Management, Test Strategies	Good Enough Testing: Finding the Goldilocks Zone Sanne Visser Capgemini, Netherlands	More
Friday	09:00^FRI	F4	People/Skills, Coaching & Skills	Put your Mindset to Test: The One Asset you need to Shape your Testing Barry Ehigiator Verisure Innovation, Sweden	More
Friday	09:00^FRI	F5	People/Skills, Teams & Culture	Simple Words: Distilling the Essence of Testing Rick Tracy Hapalion Consultancy, Netherlands	More
Friday	10:00^FRI	F6	Test Automation, Test Strategies, Test Management	Forget Shift Left and Shift Right. Let’s Shift Back!! René van Veldhuijzen Testimist, Netherlands	More
Friday	10:00^FRI	F7	People/Skills, Agile Testing, DevOps	Ready for Test - A Symptom of a Poor Quality Culture Thomas Shipley GlobalLogic, UK	More
Friday	10:00^FRI	F8	People/Skills, Teams & Culture	Test with Purpose, Test to Win! Andy Glover Ideagen, UK	More
Friday	10:00^FRI	F9	Non-Functional testing, Approaches & Techniques	The Rollercoaster Ride of Load Testing an AV Platform with 350K Users Vimmi Walia & Yogesh Bawa Nagarro, India	More
Friday	10:00^FRI	F10	People/Skills, Coaching & Skills	How Aware Are We Of Our Biases in Testing Alexandru Cusmaru & Eduard Enoiu Siemens Mobility, Germany & Mälardalen University, Sweden	More
Friday	10:45^FRI	Break		Morning Break – Coffee & Chats with your Fellow Attendees
Friday	11:30^FRI	5 Talks		Community Stage 5 Speakers from the Community - 99 seconds each Join us for 5 Different Stories	More
Friday	11:40^FRI	Keynote	Functional testing, Approaches & Techniques	What the Hell Kind of Testing Is That? Nancy Kelln Unimagined Testing, Canada	More
Friday	12:40^FRI	Farewell		Conference Chair Closing Remarks Graham Freeburn 2023 Reveal
Friday	12:50^FRI	Lunchtime		Join us for Lunch in the EXPO Hall
Friday	14:00^FRI	F11	Test Management, Test Strategies	Shaping your own Test Brewery (Workshop) Jean-Paul Varwijk Arborosa, Netherlands	More
Friday	14:00^FRI	F12	People/Skills, Teams & Culture	21st Century Skills for a Tester (Workshop) Emna Ayadi & Ard Kramer Sogeti, France & OrangeCrest, Netherlands	More
Friday	14:00^FRI	F13	Test Automation	Lean Coffee - Implement Changes EuroSTAR 2022 Programme Committee More Detail Coming Soon	More
Friday	14:00^FRI	F14	Test Automation	Do-Over Session Delegates Choose the Speaker Vote for Your Favourite Track Talk
Friday	14:45^FRI	Break		Afternoon Break
Friday	15:00^FRI	F15	Test Management, People/Skills	I'm in Love with the Shape of QA Bart Van Raemdonck Axxes, Belgium	More
Friday	15:00^FRI	F11	Test Management, Test Strategies	Shaping your own Test Brewery (Continued) Jean-Paul Varwijk Arborosa, Netherlands	More
Friday	15:00^FRI	F12	People/Skills, Teams & Culture	21st Century Skills for a Tester (Continued) Emna Ayadi & Ard Kramer Sogeti, France & OrangeCrest, Netherlands	More
Friday	15:00^FRI	F13	Test Automation	Lean Coffee - Implement Changes (Continued) EuroSTAR 2022 Programme Committee More Detail Coming Soon	More
Friday	15:45^FRI	FINISH		Informal Farewell Mixer EuroSTAR 2022 Programme Committee Farewell chats with your fellow Attendees