Pratibha SangamConferences are the best place to exchange your knowledge. When it comes to testing conferences it’s no less.
So, if you are looking to delve more into software testing world to gain major insights on what is going to happen this year you must move ahead and attend some of the best testing conferences.
If you are clueless which ones to attend, here are the top 15 conferences in software testing, analysis and quality assurance which you find interested to dip your toes in. Find your most suitable date and place and dive into the world of testing!
1. Nordic Testing Days
This international testing conference is held annually which largely focuses on software testers
Date: : June 6–8th
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Website: nordictestingdays.eu
Twitter: @nordictestdays
2. Better Software West
Date: June 3–8th
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Twitter: @TechWell
Website: bscwest.techwell.com/program/interests/software-quality-testing
3.Testing Guild
Date: June 20–22nd
Location: Online
Website: testingguild.com
Conducted by : Joe Colantonio
4. Agile Testing Days USA
This conference is primarily for Agile community. Anyone who is interested in development, testing and QA can attend
Date: June 25–27th
Location: Danvers, Massachusetts, USA
Website: agiletestingdays.us
Twitter: @AgileTDUSA
5. ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis
ISSTA is a research symposium on software testing and analysis and attracts academics, industrial experts and researchers, and practitioners to exchange new ideas, problems and experiences in their fields.
Date: July 16–21st
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Twitter: @issta_conf
Website: conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2018
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6. CAST (conference for the Automation of Software Testing) Held annually
It brings together developers, testers, researchers, and managers to exchange their ideas and experiences
Date: August 6–9th
Location: Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
Website: associationforsoftwaretesting.org/conference/cast-2018/
Twitter: @AST_News, #CAST2018
7. STeP-IN Forum
As the tagline of the summit goes ‘Connecting Machine Learning, AI, IoT, Blockchain and Big Data together’ it grabs the attention of industrial experts, test engineers and quality checking pioneers.
Attention Asians!. STeP-IN Forum is one of the largest testing conferences in Asia. Go grab the opportunity.
Date: August 31-September 1st
Location: Bengaluru (Bangalore), Karnataka, India
Website: stepinsummit.stepinforum.org
Twitter: @stepin_forum
8. Techwell’s STAR Software Testing Conference
It is the longest testing conference consisting of three different conferences viz STAREAST, STARWEST, and the STARCANADA taking place all throughout the year
Star East
Date : April 29 to May 4th
Location : Orlando, FL, USA
Twitter: @TechWell, #STAREAST
STAR West
Date : September 30-October 5th
Location: Anaheim, California, USA
Website: starwest.techwell.com
STAR Canada
Date: October 14 to 19th
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
Twitter: @TechWell, #STARCANADA
9. WeTest
Date: September 2018th
Location: Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand
Website: wetest.co.nz
Twitter: @WeTestNZ
10. EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference
The most famous European conferences, as called, would be celebrating 25 years of EuroSTAR conferences, with its 26th conference.
Date : November 12 to 15th
Location : Hague, Netherlands
Website : conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/
Twitter: @esconfs, #esconfs
11. KWSQA Targeting Quality 2018
Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association (KWSQA) deals with the professional development of software testing and QA
Date: September 24–25th
Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Web: kwsqa.org/tq2018/
Twitter: @KWSQA
12. American Software Testing Qualifications Board conference
Date: September 15th
Location: Irvine, California, USA
Twitter: @astqb / #ASTQB
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13. Atlassian Summit Europe
It is Atlassian’s annual user conference and features a wide variety of developer bootcamp.
Date: September 3–5th
Location : Sunny Barcelona
Website: atlassian.com/company/events/summit-europe/watch-sessions/2017/featured/keynote
14. CopenhagenContext
QA professionals, software testers, managers, directors, developers, engineers and anyone interested can attend this.
Date: September 17–21st
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Web: CopenhagenContext
Twitter: @CPHcontext
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15. Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC)
With its debut in 2016, the conference is primarily for software engineers and testers.
Date: Not yet released
Location: London, UK
Website : developers.google.com/google-test-automation-conference
Twitter: @googletesting
Hope you must have decided by now which conference you are going to attend this year. Don’t forget to let us know in the comments below which testing conference are you going to attend.
