The European Software Testing Awards is an annual event held in Central London celebrating the very best in the software testing and QA industry. A total of 18 awards were handed out for diverse categories such as Best Agile Testing Project, Best Mobile Testing Project and Leading Vendor. Two special awards were also handed out on the night – Micro Focus European Software Testing Award and an Outstanding Achievement Award.

A full list of the winners can be found here.

Raising money and awareness at The European Software Testing Awards 2016

During the evening, Senior Fundraising Executive, Catherine Sykes from GOSH took the stage for a moment to spread awareness of the charity and their work.

Members of the 31 Media team then collected donations and sold prize draw tickets. After the Awards Ceremony concluded, Ms Sykes was able to hand over a brand new Amazon Echo to the lucky winner.

All proceeds from the prize draw were donated to the charity.

Supporting Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH)

31 Media, organisers of The European Software Testing Awards and the publishers of TEST Magazine are really proud to have worked with some great charities to make a positive difference over the years.

“Using our events, publications, and platforms to donate to incredible causes such as Great Ormond Street Hospitals Children’s Charity is crucial to us as a company. We constantly want to be building awareness around extremely important causes such as this one, and we’re just so thankful to everyone who donated at this year’s awards,” says Cecilia Rehn, General Manager and Editor at TEST Magazine. “We’re incredibly proud of the amount we all, collectively, managed to raise on the night!”

About GOSH

GOSH is one of the top five paediatric research hospitals in the world, treating children from all over the UK and abroad who are diagnosed with the most complex, life-threatening conditions. GOSH has over 50 specialities under one roof and receives over 240,000 patient visits every year from children all over the UK and abroad, who are suffering from the most complex, life-threatening conditions.

The charity exists to assist the hospital in delivering world-class care for its young patients and their families and to pioneer new treatments and cures for childhood illness. Support for the charity will help the hospital to save more lives, develop new treatments, build new facilities and provide outstanding care to children and their families.

About The European Software Testing Awards

The Headline Sponsor for The European Software Testing Awards 2016 is MICRO FOCUS, and category sponsors are AMDOCS and WORKSOFT. The sponsors for The European Software Testing Summit 2016 include AMDOCS, CA TECHNOLOGIES and PERFECTO, supported by TEST Magazine, Software Testing News and DevOps Online.

31 Media, organisers of The European Software Testing Awards and publishers of TEST Magazine would like to thank its sponsors for their support.

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The fourth annual European Software Testing Awards 2016 took place on 16 November 2016 at the magnificent Old Billingsgate in central London. The Awards were hosted by TEST Magazine’s Editor Cecilia Rehn who was joined on stage by presenters from leading industry service providers Micro Focus, Amdocs and Worksoft, as well as several members of the Judging Panel.

2016 winners

The first award of the evening was the Testing Management Team of the Year, which was awarded to Lloyds Banking Group. The judges felt that the Group Operations Business Testing Services (GOTS) management team exceeded all expectations during their pivotal role in the planning and management of testing processes for the large UK based financial services group.

Tech Mahindra were awarded the Worksoft Testing Team of the Year for their ability to create and bring in a brand new testing team, and make it a success.

The Best User Experience (UX) Testing in a Project category winner was Harman Connected Services, for creating a world class betting and gaming experience with Ladbrokes and demonstrating exemplary UX work by testing/assessing the ease of use of Ladbrokes’ new multi-channel product.

The team at Virgin Media were honoured with the Amdocs Best Overall Testing Project – Communication award, thanks to their developed ‘Einstein’ solution that resolves service faults quickly for customers and slashed the number of call-outs to customers’ homes.

The next award on the night recognised Tech Mahindra as having the Most Innovative Project. Tech Mahindra’s entry successfully validated the non-functional aspects of an IoT (internet of things) platform.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Group took home the award for Best Overall Testing Project – Gaming. This entry presented a mapping tool that singularised test data to one location, so that it can be searched, filtered and displayed in an easily digestible way.

The seventh award was awarded to Tech Mahindra who took home Best Mobile Testing Project after the judges agreed this entry presented the best mobile testing solution, which was developed for a leading European retailer.

After demonstrating their expertise of test management, test automation, agile, performance testing, and most importantly, their move into DevOps, nFocus Testing were awarded with Leading Vendor. QA Mentor was recognised with a Special Commendation in this category.

Judges felt that Isabelle Magnusson from Ticketmaster was deserving of the Testing Manager of the Year award. Isabelle has shown great leadership skills, demonstrating Ticketmaster’s values in building their QA team.

The Best Test Automation Project – Non-Functional was awarded to Tech Mahindra for demonstrating the best use of non-functional automation in a software testing project.

Aaron Gibbon from BJSS was honoured with the award for Graduate Tester of the Year for his integral role in the testing of BJSS’ flagship NHS Spine 2 project, in which he single-handedly produced core test automation components on which the programme relies and which the NHS still continues to use.

Maveric Systems in partnership with Metro Bank was awarded the Best Test Automation Project – Functional for its use of functional automation in a software testing project. HARMAN Connected Services was awarded a Special Commendation in this category.

The Best Overall Testing Project – Finance was awarded to Brickendon Consulting for helping a large tier 1 investment bank roll out its new ecommerce platform across 30 different countries.

Marks and Spencer (M&S) picked up the award for the Best Overall Testing Project – Retail. The entry saw the successful initiation of the retailer’s ‘Distribution Centre 2’ program.

The judges awarded Cognizant Technology Solutions with Best Use of Technology in a Project, for the testing service provider’s design of a BDD-style testing framework with futuristic technologies like OCR and LUX sensors.

Home Office – Immigration IT Portfolio was recognised as this year’s Best Agile Project. Their testing project successfully demonstrated an agile approach to the judging panel.

Gojko Adžić, Partner at Neuri Consulting LLP was selected by the judging panel to receive the Outstanding Achievement Award, for his hard work in the sector, in particular agile testing.

The final, overall award was awarded to Tech Mahindra for the entry they submitted for the Best Test Automation Project – Non-Functional category. Gregor Rechberger, Product Manager at Micro Focus, was on stage to present the Micro Focus European Software Testing Award to the Tech Mahindra team.

About The European Software Testing Awards

The European Software Testing Awards is an annual event held in Central London celebrating the very best in the software testing and QA industry.

A full list of the Finalists in each category can be found here.

The Headline Sponsor for The European Software Testing Awards 2016 is MICRO FOCUS, and category sponsors are AMDOCS and WORKSOFT. The Awards programme is also supported by TEST Magazine, Software Testing News and DevOps Online.

31 Media, organisers of The European Software Testing Awards, The National Software Testing Conference and publishers of TEST Magazine would like to thank its sponsors for their support.

Written by Cecilia Rehn.

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Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC)’s ‘Digital Testing in Europe – Strategies, Challenges & Measuring Success,’ research looks at how organisations are ensuring that the testing and quality assurance (QA) function is able to support the digital agenda of the business.

This is often led by departments such as sales and marketing, who circumvent the CIO and undertake their own development projects, while using emerging tools and platforms.

Developing and implementing digital testing strategies

The study, supported by Accenture, HP, TestPlant, Applause and Worksoft, found that 26% of organisations in the region have formulated a digital testing strategy but have not yet implemented it. A further 35% plan to develop a digital testing strategy in the next year.

The study found that the biggest obstacle in implementing digital testing strategies is in taking a consistent approach to testing across multiple channels of engagement, an issue cited by almost half of all participants. The second biggest issue is that of integrating digital into legacy systems, which was regarded as a ‘primary’ challenge by 39% of participants.

Other key findings

More than 60% of businesses use the same team to test both digital projects and existing applications.

Nearly 23% of companies currently allocate more than 60% of their testing budgets to new development in 2015, but this will increase to a level of 27% in 2017. The majority of companies use an array of tools (in-house, packaged, open source) and approaches (virtualisation, in-production testing) as part of their digital testing strategies.

Major Challenges for Digital Testing

There is growing interest in crowd sourced testing models. 25% of European businesses already use them, with an additional 20% planning to use them in the next two years.

European organisations need to rethink their approach to testing

Nick Mayes, Principal Analyst at PAC, said: “The digital agenda is having a profound impact on the testing strategies of many European organisations. It is moving testing closer to the business, driving them to leverage different tools, methodologies and external partners, and it is forcing businesses to change at greater speed.”

The European Picture

“The proliferation of digital technologies in today’s high-velocity, software-driven business world is pushing every company to rethink and reinvent its approach to testing,” said Matthias Rasking, Europe, Africa and Latin America Testing Lead for Accenture. “We collaborated with PAC on this study to highlight the need for companies to develop a comprehensive digital testing strategy in support of their business strategy. The ability to roll out business capabilities continuously, create a seamless customer experience and protect the brand will be the difference between companies that can evolve and ones that stagnate.”

Methodology

PAC interviewed senior IT and testing executives at 200 large businesses in Europe, as part of the study.

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