2025 | EuroSTAR Conference

EuroSTAR 2025 Programme

The 2025 EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference took place in Edinburgh – the theme was ‘AI on Trial’.

Thank you to our 2025 Programme Chair, Tanja Vos, and committee Nele van Asch, Anais Van Asselt, Bart Knaack, and Linda Van de Vooren, for selecting each of the talks below. Thank you to everyone submitted and also our community reviewers for taking time to read each of the submissions – your feedback helps shape the programme each year.

We look forward to welcoming all of our speakers, attendees and partners to
EuroSTAR 2026, 15-18 June in Oslo.

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Day	Time	Session	Topic	Title	Learn More
Tuesday	TUESDAY 3rd JUNE BST				Half Day Tutorials
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial A	Non functional testing	Ramping up Modern Performance Testing Leandro Melendez Señor Performo, Mexico	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial B	AI	Don’t Say Hello To LLM: Dive Into The System Under Test. Maryna Didkovska EPAM, Ukraine	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial C	AI	Conquering Code Everest: Let AI Be Your Sherpa Adam Matłacz Space to Grow, Poland	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial D	AI	Let's Test an LLM ^{Booked Out} Michael Bolton DevelopSense, Canada	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial E	Human skills	From Zero to Hero : Testing with INGenious Playwright Studio Ashish Ghosh ING, Netherlands	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial F	Human skills	Quality Coaching Toolbox with a GenAI Twist Emna Ayadi & Eveline Moolenaars Sogeti, France & Netherlands	More
Tuesday	09:00^TUE	Tutorial G	Human skills	Do you have a Testing Toolkit? Let's Build One Rahul Parwal ifm engineering, India	More
Tuesday	12:30^TUE	Lunch		Meet & Mingle with your Community
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial H	Non functional testing	Make a fearless start with security testing Sander van Beek Bartosz ICT, Netherlands	More
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial I	AI	Enhancing Agile Testing with LLMs: A Guide for Testers ^{Booked Out} Fran O'Hara Inspire, Ireland	More
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial J	AI	Testus Patronus: No Magic, Just AI with Your Company Context ^{Booked Out} Paula Bassagañas Boehringer Ingelheim, Spain	More
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial K	AI	Risk Analysis for Testers and Teams ^{Booked Out} Michael Bolton DevelopSense, Canada	More
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial L	Human skills	Training Software Professionals Using Simulations Andrew Brown Independent, UK	More
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial M	Human skills	Emotional Intelligence at Work Tatiana Pastukhova Mind Twist Consulting, Netherlands	More
Tuesday	13:30^TUE	Tutorial N	Human skills	Who will guard the guards themselves? Bas Dijkstra On Test Automation, Netherlands	More
Wednesday	WEDNESDAY 4TH JUNE BST
Wednesday	08:55^WED	Welcome		Opening Remarks from the EuroSTAR Programme Chair Tanja Vos Programme Chair
Wednesday	09:00^WED	Keynote	Human skills	Breaking Test Stereotypes: Who Is Testing and Why It Matters Isabel Evans Independent, UK	More
Wednesday	10:00^WED	Break		Morning Break – Visit the Test Tools & Services EXPO
Wednesday	10:30^WED	W1	Human skills	Skills, Mindset & Collaberation Tanja Vos, Bart Knaack, Huib Schoots Open University, Professional Testing, Sogeti, Netherlands	More
Wednesday	10:30^WED	W2	AI, Addressing biases	Dead Internet Theory: Fiction, or Future? Darren Richardson Eficode, Finland	More
Wednesday	10:30^WED	W3	AI	DocuMentor: Enhancing Test Documentation with AI Feedback Richard Bishop & Liam Patience Lloyds Bank, UK	More
Wednesday	10:30^WED	W4	Test Data Management, AI	AI-Generated Data: Guardians of Privacy or a Trojan Horse? Anastasia Simou Accenture, Germany	More
Wednesday	10:30^WED	DD1	AI	Test-driven Generation: A Hands-on Experience ^{(Deep Dive)} ^{Booked Out} James Lyndsay Workroom Productions, UK	More
Wednesday	11:30^WED	W5	Human skills, AI	Unmasking AI: Is Artificial Intelligence Truly Thinking? Benjamin Johnson Ward BJW Consulting, US	More
Wednesday	11:30^WED	W6	AI, Addressing biases, Learned experience	QA and (Gen)AI: It Is Not Just About Testing Bart Knaack Professional Testing B.V, Netherlands	More
Wednesday	11:30^WED	W7	AI	How Generative AI Works (a very rough guide) Jarsto van Santen DUO, Netherlands	More
Wednesday	11:30^WED	W8	Learned experience, Human skills	Cut The Cheese: Hidden Costs of Downsizing Software Teams Dermot Canniffe Inflectra, Ireland	More
Wednesday	12:15^WED	Lunch		Join us in the EXPO for Lunch & visit the Community Hub
Wednesday	13:15^WED	Keynote	AI, Learned experience	Five Reasons Why You Should NOT Use GenAI Rik Marselis & Wouter Ruigrok Sogeti, Netherlands	More
Wednesday	14:15^WED	Break		Afternoon Break – Check out the Community Hub in the EXPO
Wednesday	15:00^WED	W9	Human skills, AI	How to Stay Human in The Times of AI Bells Smętek Soflab, Poland	More
Wednesday	15:00^WED	W10	Human skills, Non functional testing	Taking Action to Lead Software Testing Kari Kakkonen & Marko Rytkönen Gofore Oy & Hidden Trail Oy, Finland	More
Wednesday	15:00^WED	W11	Addressing biases, Learned experience, AI	The Hidden Code: Bias Testing for Ethical AI in Healthtech Usha Kandala Firebucks, India	More
Wednesday	15:00^WED	W12	Learned experience, AI	The Anomalous Tester James Bornefelt Westfall Neatframe AS, Norway	More
Wednesday	15:00^WED	DD2	Human skills	Negotiation Skills for Software Testers ^{(Deep Dive)} ^{Booked Out} Mark Micallef University of Malta, Malta	More
Wednesday	15:45^WED	Break		Short Break – Check out the Community Hub in the EXPO
Wednesday	16:00^WED	W13	AI, Human skills	How AI Helps Test Managers Elevate Their Professional Impact Bo Dresler & Jan Riis Sørensen Testhuset, Denmark	More
Wednesday	16:00^WED	W14	Learned experience, AI	Innovative Testing Strategies and Continuous Improvement Elif Gurcuoglu Adesso, Turkey	More
Wednesday	16:00^WED	W15	Learned experience	Engage the Crowd, Strike First! The CrowdStrike Incident Ivan Merola & Cristian Merola Build 38 & Esneca, Spain	More
Wednesday	16:00^WED	W16	AI	Eye Spy with AI : Visual Testing with a Smart Twist! Geosley Andrades ACCELQ, India	More
Wednesday	17:00^WED	NETWORK		EXPO Drinks An opportunity to catch up with friends & make new connections over snacks and drinks.
Thursday	THURSDAY 5TH JUNE BST
Thursday	09:00^THUR	Keynote	AI	Assured LLM-Based Software Test Generation Mark Harman Meta, UK	More
Thursday	10:00^THUR	TALKS		Community Stage 5 Speakers 4 Minutes Each
Thursday	10:30^THUR	Break		Morning Break – Connect with your fellow Attendees
Thursday	11:00^THUR	Th1	Learned experience, Human skills	Behind the Scenes of QA in the Kotlin Team Liliia Abdulina JetBrains, France	More
Thursday	11:00^THUR	Th2	Addressing biases, AI	AI’s Hidden Bias: Spotting the Unseen Before It Strikes Brijesh Deb Infosys, Netherlands	More
Thursday	11:00^THUR	Th3	AI	RAG to Riches: Supercharging LLMs for Superior AI Testing Venkatesh & Anamika Mukhopadhyay Fiserv & Nagarro, Ireland & India	More
Thursday	11:00^THUR	Th4	Non functional testing	A Comedy of Errors Linda van de Vooren Bartosz, Netherlands	More
Thursday	11:00^THUR	DD3	Human skills	Leading and motivating highly technical QA Teams ^{(Deep Dive)} ^{Booked Out} Madhulika Mitra Runa, UK	More
Thursday	12:00^THUR	Th5	AI	Simplifying AI Testing with The Conceptual Duck Principle Mohit Gaur Red Hat, India	More
Thursday	12:00^THUR	Th6	Non functional testing	European Accessibility Act - Everything you need to know! Daniel Angelov JAKALA, Bulgaria	More
Thursday	12:00^THUR	Th7	AI	Beyond the Wow – Lessons of LLM-aided Test Case Generation Theodor Hartmann OBJENTIS GmbH, Austria	More
Thursday	12:00^THUR	Th8	Human skills	Test Documentation: Why so Technical? Ana Duarte Xray by Xblend, Portugal	More
Thursday	12:45^THUR	Lunch		Enjoy Lunch, watch the EXPO Demos & Visit the Community Hub.
Thursday	13:45^THUR	Th9	Non functional testing	Green Testing: AI-Driven Strategies for SustainableTesting Samer Naqvi Global Logic, UK	More
Thursday	13:45^THUR	Th10	Programming, Human skills	Stuck in Detention: How Repetitive Tasks Punish Adults Elissa Tahech Murex, Lebanon	More
Thursday	13:45^THUR	Th11	AI	Future of Test Automation with Gen AI Jonathon Wright Eggplant, USA	More
Thursday	13:45^THUR	Th12	Human skills, AI	Team AI vs. Team Human Tugba Karakaya & Viviane Hennecke Accenture, Germany	More
Thursday	13:45^THUR	DD4	AI	AI on Trial ^{(Deep Dive)} ^{Booked Out} Elmar Jürgens CQSE, Germany	More
Thursday	14:45^THUR	Th13	Human skills, AI	FOMO SAPIENS: The Rise of The AI Empire René van Veldhuijzen Testimist, Netherlands	More
Thursday	14:45^THUR	Th14	AI, Addressing biases	Authentic Intelligence for Better Approximated Intelligence Lalitkumar Bhamare Accenture Song, Germany	More
Thursday	14:45^THUR	Th15	Learned experience, AI	LLM-empowered Scriptless GUI testing Tanja Vos Open University, Netherlands	More
Thursday	14:45^THUR	Th16	Learned experience, Human skills	Feedback Loop from Hell Davy Kenis AE, Belgium	More
Thursday	15:30^THUR	BREAK		Afternoon Break – Check out the Community Hub in the EXPO
Thursday	16:15^THUR	Keynote	Learned experience	Africa’s Tech Growth: The Role of QA and Women Leaders Abiola Rasaq The Bug Detective, Nigeria	More
Thursday	19:30^THUR	NETWORK		Awards Evening EuroSTAR at Night
Friday	FRIDAY 6TH JUNE BST
Friday	09:00^FRI	F1	Human skills, Learned experience	5 Surprising Things I Learned Helping 300 Techies to Use AI Shaun McGirr DevOn Software Services, UK	More
Friday	09:00^FRI	F2	AI	Building an AI Resilient Workforce Steve Jefferies WTW, UK	More
Friday	09:00^FRI	F3	Learned experience, Human skills	Cross-Dysfunctional Teams: Where The Magic Stops Phil Royston Tesena, Czech Republic	More
Friday	09:00^FRI	F4	Learned experience	Can We Measure Software Quality? ^RisingSTAR Bart Van Raemdonck Axxes IT Consutancy Belgium	More
Friday	10:00^FRI	F5	Learned experience, Human skills	The Pursuit of Failure Chris Armstrong Testing Peers, UK	More
Friday	10:00^FRI	F6	Addressing biases, Human skills, AI	What If I Let AI Write My EuroSTAR Submission Magnus Pettersson Didup, Sweden	More
Friday	10:00^FRI	F7	AI, Addressing biases, Human skills	Surviving and Thriving with AI in QA Maryia Tuleika Regent AB, Sweden	More
Friday	10:00^FRI	F8	Non functional testing	One Dataset to Rule Them All! René Tuinhout & Maikel Peters Dutch Vechicle Authority & DUO, Netherlands	More
Friday	10:45^FRI	BREAK		Morning Break – Visit the Test Tools & Services EXPO
Friday	11:15^FRI	SESSION	AI	Panel Session - AI on Trial Tanja Vos EuroSTAR 2025 Programme Chair
Friday	12:00^FRI	conclude		Closing Remarks Tanja Vos EuroSTAR 2025 Programme Chair
Friday	12:10^FRI	Reveal		The Big Reveal 2026 Programme Chair 2026 Location
Friday	12:15^FRI	Lunch		Lunch & Prize-Giving Bonanza in the Community Hub
Friday	13:45^FRI	LECTURE		Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Results ^{Legend's Lecture} Paul Gerrard Gerrard Consulting Ltd., U.K.
Friday	14:45^FRI	F9		Women in Testing - Diversity & Inclusion Fiona Østensvig & Tone Molyneux Gritera Quality & DNB, Norway
Friday	14:45^FRI	F10		Best of EuroSTAR as Voted by You Speaker To Be Announced
Friday	14:45^FRI	F11		Best of EuroSTAR as Voted by You Speaker To Be Announced
Friday	15:30^FRI	ENDS		Farewell Thank you for being part of EuroSTAR and see you next year!