Software Testing Conferences 2017: USA, Europe, UK, Canada, Australia, India, China, Germany, etc.

Agile Testing Days, Potsdam / Berlin, Germany, November 16-19 2026

Software Testing Magazine — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:00:04 +0000

The Agile Testing Days is an European conference focused on Agile software testing that takes place in Potsdam / Berlin, Germany. Some of the days of the Agile Testing Days are dedicated to tutorials. In the remaining days you will find workshops and presentations about doing software testing with Agile approaches. All presentations are in English. In the agenda of the Agile Testing Days conference you can find software testing topics like “Botium – next generation testing for chatbots”, “The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World”, “Product Owner Dancing Guide to Writing Acceptance Tests”, “Exploring Features and Stories”, “Test automation without the headache”, “Scaling without scale is possible!”, “Testing Your Emotions“, “Continuous Delivery Anti-Patterns”, “Testing Distributed Micro-Services”, “My Top 10 Mistakes Testing with Agile”, “Agile Testing 2.0 or Plastic Surgery for Dummies”, “Evolutionary Anatomy of Test Automation Code”, “Learning different ways of exploratory testing”, “Testable User Stories”, “Using Docker for Testing”, “Experimenting in Context for Exploratory Testing”, “A Happy Marriage between Context-Driven and Agile”, “How to include user experience driven testing (UEDT) into mobile test automation and agile practices”, “Performance testing with Gatling”, “Myths about Exploratory Testing”. Web site for the Agile Testing Days conference: https://agiletestingdays.com/

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QA&TEST Embedded, Bilbao, Spain, October 14-16 2026

Software Testing Magazine — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:00:57 +0000

QA&TEST is a three-day international conference on software quality assurance and software testing on embedded software and software systems. This event takes place every year in Bilbao, Spain. In the agenda of the QA&TEST conference you can find topics like “Agentic Quality Engineering for Embedded Systems: Quality Intelligence Across the Entire Delivery Lifecycle”, “Can We Trust AI Agents to Program and Test Safety-Critical Systems? Current Standards, Qualification Gaps and Emerging Solutions”, “Test Design and Specification Techniques: From Classical Methods to AI-Assisted Approaches”, “A Fresh Perspective on Testing”, “Testing road tunnels in the Netherlands, a complex infrastructural project”, “Agile Teams: Advocating Quality When Collaboration Becomes Groupthink”, “Internet of Things – Testing the Experience”, “Pros and Cons of Doing Performance Testing Along with Development Versus at the End of it”, “Jenkins Pipeline for automatic test runs on hardware”, “Best practices of multidisciplinary test and integration using emulation models”, “Getting value from structured testing in high-tech environments”, “CMMI statistically performance of process in SCRUM projects”, “Computer vision as a challenging technology to test”, “Validation team and testability commitment”, “Functional Testing: A Business Processing Model approach for Model Base Testing”, “Aligning Metrics with the Testing Goals”, “Assessing and Testing Risk for Safety-Critical Embedded Systems”. Website for QA&TEST conference: https://www.qatest.org/

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SoCraTes Belgium, La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium, October 22-25 2026

Software Testing Magazine — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:00:01 +0000

The SoCraTes Belgium conference is a four-day event that discusses programming and software testing though the software craftsmanship approach. SoCraTes is the acronym for the International Software Craftsmanship and Testing Conference. The SoCraTes Belgium conference follows the open space format for conferences. Open space is a simple methodology for self-organizing conference tracks. It relies on participation by people who have a passion for the topics to be discussed. There is no preplanned list of topics, only time slots and a space in the main meeting room where interested participants propose topics and pick time slots. Website for the SoCraTes Belgium conference: https://socratesbe.org/

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Softec Asia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 14-15 2026

Software Testing Magazine — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:00:03 +0000

Softec Asia is an event focused on software testing organized by the Malaysian Software Testing Board (MSTB) that takes place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The conference features local and international software testing and software quality assurance experts. In the agenda of the Softec Asia conference you can find software testing and software quality topics like “Advanced Data Management for Software Testers”, “Post Pandemic How Does TMMi Help Business Survive”, “Advanced Risk-Based Testing and the Comparative Value of Software Test Cases”, “Transforming to New Test and Assurance Approaches”, “The Next Generation Tester: Meeting the Challenges of a Changing IT World”, “Trends in Software QA – Adding Intelligence in Testing”, “Optimize Your Test Case Design”, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Agile Testing”, “Anti-patterns of Test Design”, “How are You Managing Your Test Data?”, “Measurement and Metrics for Test Managers”, “The Warrior Tester”, “Building a Robust Test Industry for the Future”, “Test Automation Pattern”, “The Emerging World of the IoT – What it is, and what it means for testing”, “Testing Business Mentoring”, “SQA, Testing and SCM – What are the differences”, “10 Common Attacks on the Test Manager”. Website for the Softec Asia conference: https://www.mstb.org/

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CAST Conference of the Association for Software Testing, Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA, August 3-5 2026

Software Testing Magazine — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:00:52 +0000

CAST is the software testing conference of the Association for Software Testing (AST). At the CAST conference, speakers share their stories and experiences surrounding software testing, whether bound by rules and laws of science and experimentation, or expressed through creativity, imagination, and artistry. The Association for Software Testing is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the understanding of the science and practice of software testing according to Context-Driven principles. In the agenda of the CAST Conference of the Association for Software Testing you can find topics like “Visual Validation for Test Automation”, “The Whole Team Approach to Testing in Continuous Delivery”, “Exploratory Testing on Computer Interfaces (APIs)”, “Just-in-Time Software Testing”, “Advanced Automation for Agile: UI, Web Services, and BDD”, “The Whole Team Approach to Testing in Continuous Delivery”, “Coaching Testing”, “Traditional Setup vs. Pairing vs. Mobbing – An Experiment for Testers and Developers”, “De-Mystifying Mobile Application Testing”, “A Day in the Life of a Test Architect”, “Augmenting the Agile Team – A Testing Success Story”, “Building Tests to Build Websites”, “Continuous Regression Performance Testing for Enduring in Market”, “What Catalyzes Testing? Testability!”, “Just-in-Time Software Testing – Powerful Tools for Fast-Changing Projects and Priorities”, “Let’s Take Automated Checking Beyond WebDriver”, “Testopsies — Dissecting Your Testing”, “Cooperating to Exercise Judgment and Skill: Requirements”, “Create the Change You Want”, “Teaching Testing to Non-Testers”, “Testers Role in Agile Requirements Exploration”, “Test Cases are Not Testing: Toward a Performance Culture”, “My Boss Would Never Go for That – Testing and the Art of Persuasion”, “‘He [...]

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National Software Testing Conference, London, UK, July 14-15 2026

Software Testing Magazine — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:00:37 +0000

The National Software Testing Conference is a conference taking place in London and focused on different areas of software testing. The speakers are active testing professionals that have and fought their way through literally dozens and dozens of like-minded professionals and come out on top. The conference program delivers up-to-date and cutting-edge content and pragmatic advice to software testing current issues. In the agenda of the National Software Testing Conference you can find topics like “Shift from Quality Assurance to Quality Engineering!”, “The Cost of Test Automation”, “Can Testing really be Agile?”, “Testing In A Fragmented Marketplace: How Big Is Your Device Cupboard?”, “Why Opt For Agile Software Testing? The Answer May Surprise You”, “How To Automate Testing For Next-Generation Interfaces, Including Web, Mobile, And Applications Like Siri And Alexa”, “Rediscover Exploratory Testing”, “Shifting SQA Skills To The Digital Era”, “Preparing Testing And Test Organisation Setup For DevOps”, “Why is Diversity More Important Than Ever Within Assurance Disciplines?”, “Testing for Digital Using One Script in One Lab”, “The Art of Questioning to improve Testing, Agile, and Automating”, “Changing Trends, Test Automation and Continuous Delivery”, “MicroServices Testing and Automation strategy on Mobile Technology”, “Testing: Evolution or Revolution?”, “Introducing Quality through Behaviour Driven Change Implementation”. Website for the National Software Testing Conference: https://nationalsoftwaretestingconference.co.uk/

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SoCraTes Germany, Soltau, Germany, August 27–30 2026

Software Testing Magazine — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:00:10 +0000

SoCraTes is the acronym for the International Software Craft and Testing Conference. The SoCraTes Germany conference discusses programming and software testing though the software craftsmanship approach. The SoCraTes Germany conference follows the open space format for events. Open space is a simple methodology for self-organizing conference tracks. It relies on participation by people who have a passion for the topics to be discussed. There is no preplanned list of topics, only time slots and a space in the main meeting room where interested participants propose topics and pick time slots. The SoCraTes Germany conference is a non-profit event. SoCraTes Germany is an international conference and the conference language is English Website for the SoCraTes Germany conference: http://www.socrates-conference.de/

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QA or the Highway, Columbus, USA, June 12 202

Software Testing Magazine — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:00:52 +0000

QA or the Highway is a one-day regional conference in the USA that focuses on software testing and software quality assurance. It takes place every year in Columbus, Ohio. In the agenda of QA or the Highway conference you could find topics like “Automated Testing – DevOps Enabler”, “Create Testing Commandos for Creative Problem Solving!”, “Making a Mock”, “Quality Assurance & User Experience: Friends or Foes?”, “More Than a Tester: Involving QA throughout the Agile Process”, “Testing and Checking… potentially adding a new layer to your perspective”, “Improving Test Team Throughput By Improving Test Architecture”, “(Almost) Everything I know about testing I learned playing poker”, “The Limits of Unit Testing and How to Exceed Them”, “Discover the Power of Pair Testing!!!”, “Agile-Test Evolution: Changing Test Strategy Over Time”, “Eight Bad Testing Ideas”, “Improv(e) Your Testing! Tips and Tricks from Jester to Tester”, “Developer/Tester Collaboration: The Practical Side”, “Show It!: Better Testing through Visual Communication”. Website for the QA or the Highway conference: https://www.qaorthehwy.com/

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