Do you have a revolutionary new testing idea? Do you have a novel or interesting concept that could help improve the way we test? Do you have a breakthrough plan for using new technologies in testing? Consider applying for the EuroSTAR 2025 RisingSTAR Award! Applications close on May 5th, 2025.

What is the EuroSTAR 2025 RisingSTAR Award?

The RisingSTAR Award is designed to stimulate innovation in the software testing and quality assurance industry. It was created to encourage the development of new ideas, support the growth of the community through mentorship and bring new innovators to the fore.

Learn more from Bart Van Raemdonck, our 2024 RisingSTAR Award winner:

How to participate?

Nominate that colleague that is changing the way we approach software testing. After the nominations are received, the 2025 finalists will be confirmed and will be publicly posted as RisingSTAR Finalists on EuroSTARHuddle.com. The projects will be received and analyzed by “The Supporters”, a select group of many of the most high profile and influential testers in the global community. (Meet our current RisingSTAR Supporters & Mentors.)

Each of these mentors are respected testing experts, teachers and innovators who have committed to helping the winner of the EuroSTAR 2025 RisingSTAR Award to develop their idea through mentorship and connections.

How to nominate and apply?

The RisingSTAR Award supports individual innovators through mentorship to develop new ideas and contribute to the future of testing. Please note this is not a corporate award and may not be entered as a company. Entries for 2025 have closed. Thanks for your participation!

What does the RisingSTAR Award winner receive?

• Mentorship & Support – half day from each of the Supporters/Mentors
• Invitation to showcase your winning idea at EuroSTAR
• Recognition & Publicity
• A prize bursary of €1,000
• Ongoing exposure to the wider testing community via the online EuroSTAR Huddle Community.

One of the huge benefits of winning the RisingSTAR Award is that winner will receive invaluable mentorship & support from many of the most high profile and influential testers in the global community known as ‘The Supporters’ of the RisingSTAR Award. Meet our current RisingSTAR Supporters & Mentors.

Each of these mentors are respected testing experts, teachers and innovators who have committed to helping the winner of the RisingSTAR Award to develop their idea through mentorship and connections.

The 2024 RisingSTAR Award winner is Bart Van Raemdonck (Belgium), for his idea of creating a Quality Evolution Tracker. See more about Bart’s idea and all the 2024 finalists.

See 2024 Finalists

Joonas Palomäki was the EuroSTAR 2023 RisingSTAR winner, for his idea to use AI to make manual test cases 50% faster. See the finalists of the 2023 RisingSTAR Award.

The 2022 RisingSTAR winner was Kimberly Snoyl, for her idea to create a HeuriChecker to automate the usability heuristics. See the 2022 RisingSTAR Finalists and check out Kimberly’s talk description for the updates on her idea.

See updates from the RisingSTAR Award Winners.

Brendan Connolly won the 2019 RisingSTAR Award for his idea of Inclusive Automation and took to the virtual stage at EuroSTAR 2020 to present his idea and the progress he had made with the assistance of the RisingSTAR Mentors. See the 2019 Finalists for an example of shortlisted ideas.

The 2018 RisingSTAR winner was Sanne Visser, of NS Stations, Netherlands! Sanne was awarded the inaugural RisingSTAR Award for her idea to adapt and/or develop a testing framework for Blockchain-based applications to positively shape the adoption and development of blockchain technology.  See the 2018 RisingSTAR Award finalists.

See updates from the RisingSTAR Award Winners.