As it is the beginning of the year, we can still allow ourselves some time to look back on 2014. Since the very successful EuroSTAR Conference in November, there has been a number of software testing blogers who have written about the event. Today we are gathering a number of them for you in one place. If you attended EuroSTAR this year, it’s a way to reminisce about the event, a reminder to the great sessions (and social events) that took place. For those who missed out on the Conference, it gives you a great idea of what went on.
First off Stephen Janaway wrote not just one, not two but three review blog posts on EuroSTAR. He reviewed a number of sessions that he attended including Isabel Evans “Restore to Factory Settings”, Declan O’Riordan ‘Stylish Mobile Testing’ with Dan Ashby and Nehir Yelkovan. He includes some great pictures of his very stylish not taking too.
Simon Knight, a tester from the U.K. also attended the Conference week. He had a number of personal highlights from the talks he attended including Shmuel Gershon “Six Secrets for Exploring Non-Graphical Systems”, Alex Rotaru’s “Changing Mindsets – Learn, Test, Lead by Example, Ashfaq Ahmed’s “Fostering Your Innovators DNA” and others. Simon has also done some nice pdf mind map notes from the talks too. You can read his summary here.
Zeger Van Hese also wrote about his experiences of giving a talk at EuroSTAR 2014. He presented the closing Keynote titled “Everything is connected – exploring diversity, innovation, leadership”. It was the first and last presentation of this talk where Zeger cleverly managed to unify all the themes of this year’s event. You can read the slides here.
Neil Studd was TEST Huddles resident blogger at EuroSTAR this year.He summarises all his experiences including the Guinness Storehouse and a round-up of the blog posts he completed for the Conference here.
Thomas Mantsch described his first EuroSTAR experience in a blog post published on his blog. He mentions a few of the talks that got his attention including Amy Philips talk on working as a testing in the start-up world and Rob Lambert talking about “Continuous Delivery and DevOps: Moving from Staged to Pervasisve Testing”. He also got to attend the TEST Lab where he managed to collect a few stickers for his badge too.
Rob Lambert was a speaker at this year’s Conference. After attending the event and in the run up to Christmas, he decided to do themed-blog posts based around those he met at the Conference. The EuroSTAR STAR featured a number of speakers from EuroSTAR 2014. Included in his EuroSTAR STAR series was Paul Gerrard (the Conference Chair), Declan O’Riordan (who won best Conference paper at this year’s conference), Stephen Janaway, Alex Schladebeck, Amy Philips, James Christie, Fiona Charles, Adam Knight, Mary Walshe and Kristoffer Nordström. Each post is a lovely little brief introduction for a great list of speakers and attendees and worth reading.
Finally Jokin Aspiazu specifically themed his review on what lessons he took away from the various EuroSTAR talks he attended. This included the keynote talk by Andy Standford-Clark on “The Internet of Things”, Michael Bolton’s “Every Tester has a price” and Isabel Evans talk: “Restore to Factory Settings”.
And if you would like more reading about the Conference, don’t forget the TEST Huddle Press Pass winners. These are the folk who got to go to EuroSTAR this year as reporters for their fellow testers. Neil Studd, Kim Knup and Nick Shaw has written review blog posts on the event. As all three were first time attendees at the Conference, the blog posts give a great synopsis of the week’s long events for those experiencing it for the first time. Click to read Neil’s, Kim’s and Nick’s posts.
So there is a brief summary of different people’s perspectives of EuroSTAR 2014. One great aspect of seeing these different posts is that you can see how different attendees have approached the Conference and what talks hit home for them. It always great to see attendees take so many different takeaways from the Conference.
If you have written a review of EuroSTAR, please feel free to comment below and include the link to it.
