Conferences
Programme - At a Glance
The 2020 Conference Programme is announced on April
2014 EuroSTAR Conference - Past Programme
| 24th Nov | Monday Full Day Tutorials |
| 27th Nov | Thursday Conference |
| 25th Nov | Tuesday AM Tutorials |
| 25th Nov | Tuesday PM Conference |
| 26th Nov | Wednesday Conference |
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24th November– Monday Full Day Tutorials
Full Day Tutorials on Monday 24th November begin at 08:30hrs and finish at 17:00hrs.
- ATest Management in a Changing World
Bob van de Burgt, Professional Testing, Netherlands
Iris Pinkster - O'Riordain, Professional Testing, Netherlands - BAgile Testing: Advanced Topics
Janet Gregory, DragonFire Inc., Canada - CTest Strategy – Next Level
Rikard Edgren, LearningWell, Sweden - DInspiring Testing - Leadership Workshop
Fiona Charles, Quality Intelligence Inc., Canada - EKey Test Design Techniques
Lee Copeland, Software Quality, USA
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27th November– Thursday Conference
- 09:45I Love Testing So Much, It Inspires Me to Write Poetry
Ana-Alexandra Moga, LiveRail, Romania - 11:00Diversity in your team – embrace it or lose the best thing you have!
Julie Gardiner, Hitachi Consulting, UK - AW114:00
Active Workshop
Programming for Testers – It is Easy!
Graham Thomas, Independent Software Testing Consultant, United Kingdom
- AW214:00
- 08:30Hello from Programme Committee
Alexandra Casapu, Pusser Janvit, Mike Jarred, Henk van Merode and Paul Gerrard (Chair) - 08:45KEYNOTE 5: ǝnןɐʌ: Why we have it backwards
Shmuel Gershon, Intel, Israel - Th109:45
Test Management
How Do You Assess Your Test Manager?
Peter Morgan, Nicemove Ltd. / Nets A/S, Denmark
Fabian Scarano, Nets A/S, Denmark - Th309:45
- Th409:45
- 10:30
- Th511:00
- Th611:00
- Th811:00
Innovative Testing
Diversity in Action: Testing Future Products
Jurian van de Laar, Philips Healthcare, Netherlands
- 12:00KEYNOTE 6: Everything is Connected - Exploring Diversity, Innovation and Leadership
Zeger van Hese, Z-Sharp, Belgium - 12:45Closing Remarks & Summary
Programme Committee - 13:00
- AW314:00
- 14:00
Do-over Session
Declan O’Riordan, Testing IT, UK
- 14:45
- 15:15
Programming for Testers – It is Easy! Continued
- 15:15
Are You a Leader? Continued
- 15:15
Don’t Leave Until You Have All the Answers! Continued
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25th November– Tuesday AM Tutorials
- JAgile Testing - Preventing Defects over Finding Failures
Colm OhEocha, AgileInnovations, Ireland - FBDD Fundamentals
Aslak Hellesøy, Cucumber Ltd., UK - G
- HTest Automation Patterns
Seretta Gamba, Steria-Mummert ISS GmbH, Germany
Mark Fewster, Grove Consultants, UK - IWhat's The Problem? Delivering Solid Problem Reports
Michael Bolton, DevelopSense, Canada - KRobotic Testing
Anne-Marie Charrett - 2014, Testing Times, Australia
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25th November– Tuesday PM Conference
- 17:00KEYNOTE 2: Continuous Delivery and DevOps: Moving from Staged to Pervasive Testing
Rob Lambert, NewVoiceMedia, UK - 13:30Opening Remarks
Paul Gerrard, EuroSTAR 2014 Programme Chair - 13:45KEYNOTE 1: The Internet of Things - It's Coming!
Professor Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM Global Business Services, UK - 14:30
- T115:00
- T215:00
- T315:00
- T415:00
- T516:00
- T616:00
Team Building
QA Cookbook: Ingredients for a Great Recipe
Alexandra Schladebeck - 2014, BREDEX GmbH, Germany
- T716:00
- T816:00
Automation
Testing the New Web - Tackling HTML5 with Selenium
Andreas Faes, MIPS - Part of the CliniSys Group, Belgium
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26th November– Wednesday Conference
- 08:45KEYNOTE 3: Restore to Factory Settings: What to Do When a Change Programme Goes Wrong
Isabel Evans, Dolphin Computer Access, UK - 09:45Every Tester Has a PRICE: Sources of Product and Project Information
Michael Bolton, DevelopSense, Canada - W511:00
Leadership
How Diversity Challenged Me to Be Innovative as Test Team Leader
Nathalie van Delft, Turien & Co. Assuradeuren, Netherlands
- W611:00
Test Experiences
Gamification - How to Engage and Get Help from Users of a Test Framework
Kristoffer Nordström, Northern Test Consulting AB, Sweden
- W711:00
Agile
How We Transformed the Traditional Software QA by Getting Rid of the Central QA group
Frederic Mingot, Thomson Reuters, France
Hussein Jibaoui, Thomson Reuters, France
- 08:30Welcome from the Programme Committee
Alexandra Casapu, Pusser Janvit, Mike Jarred, Henk van Merode and Paul Gerrard (Chair) - W109:45
- W209:45
- W409:45
- 10:30
- 11:00Six Secrets for Exploring Non-Graphical Systems
Shmuel Gershon, Intel, Israel - W912:00
Leadership
Changing Mindsets - Learn, Test, Lead [by Example]
Alex Rotaru, Altom Consulting, Romania
- W1012:00
- W1112:00
Agile
Leading the Transition to Effective Testing in Your Agile Team
Fran O'Hara - 2015, Inspire Quality Services, Ireland
- W1212:00
Innovative Testing
Introducing Operational Intelligence into Testing
Albert Witteveen, Pluton IT, Netherlands
- 12:45
- W1313:45
- W1413:45
Test Strategy
From Managing to Leading Test Improvement
Ruud Teunissen - 2014, Polteq Test Services BV, Netherlands
- W1513:45
- W1613:45
- W1714:45
Personal Stories
Testing Off-Shore Equipment - from High Up in the Sky to Deep Below the Sea
Joep Lobee, Eclipse IT, Netherlands
Mark Burghout, Huisman Equipment, Netherlands - W1814:45
Test Strategy
Innovative Testing for Take-Off
Alexandra Sumper, Beratung GmbH, Austria
Christian Mastnak, ANECON Software Design & Beratung G.m.b.H., Austria - W1914:45
- W2014:45
Data
Decomplexifying Test Data
Robert Karlsson, Easit AB, Sweden
Fredrik Widen, Swedish Social Insurance Agency, Sweden
- 15:30
- W2116:00
- W2216:00
- W2316:00
Automation
Building a World-Class Test Toolsmiths Team
Kasper Amstrup Andersen, Unity Technologies, Denmark
- W2416:00
Security
What? Why? Who? How? Of Application Security Testing
Declan O'Riordan - 2014, Testing IT, UK
- 17:00KEYNOTE 4: Software Talks - Are You Listening?
Julian Harty -2014, Independent Consultant, UK