EuroSTAR Conference
The EuroSTAR Conference is the premier and largest gathering of European software testing professionals. EuroSTAR Conference 2016 will take place in Stockholm, Sweden from November 31 October to November 03, 2016.
History of EuroSTAR
The first EuroSTAR conference took place in London in 1993, and both the conference and community have been busy growing ever since.
EuroSTAR stands for European Software Testing Analysis & Review.
EuroSTAR is a pan-European software testing conference, and takes place in a different European city each year. Cities visited so far include London (1993, 1995) Brussels (1994, 1997) Amsterdam (1996, 2003, 2012), Edinburgh (1997, 2002), Munich (1998), Barcelona (1999), Copenhagen (2000, 2005, 2010), Manchester (2006, 2011), Stockholm (2001, 2007, 2009), Cologne (2004), The Hague (2008), Dublin (2014) and Maastricht (2015).
In recent years The UK, Scandinavia and The Netherlands have emerged as real activity areas for Software Testing in Europe, making these geographies the easy and obvious choice for the conference organisers. Conferences are planned about 18 months in advance, and many years the 'next' location is not announced until that year's conference has begun.
EuroSTAR is a sister conference (though not financially connected) to STAREAST and STARWEST testing conferences in the USA, and was brought to Europe by Bill Hetzel, who ran the first London conference in 1993 in conjunction with the British Computer Society.