The EuroSTAR Blog

Achieving and maintaining performance assurance at the Enterprise level is a difficult enough challenge for most organisations. The time has definitely arrived to augment the "C" level head-count with a new role, the CPO or Chief Performance Officer. Some companies are doing this already on an informal basis but I doubt that there are many who have appointed someone whose sole responsibility is to make sure that infrastructure and applications remain available and performant.

Testing is more than finding bugs. Most readers would agree with me that Testing is a multi disciplinary profession, Challenging in more than one way.

Brits of a certain ago can tell you what they were doing when they heard the news of the death of Diana, princes of Wales, or the resignation of Margaret Thatcher. Henceforth, testers of a certain ago will be able to tell where they were when they heard the news about Brett Gonzales .......

Day 3 of the EuroSTAR experience brought to you by EclipseIT! This video diary was recorded live at EuroSTAR 2011. It was made by our ExpoSTAR winners, EclipseIT and they are busting bugs in the exhibition hall as we speak! Go see them and bust some bugs of your own!

Highly reputed research firms such as IDC and Forrester forecast that the enterprise spending on independent testing services would cross the benchmark of $30billion by 2015. Another reputed research firm, PAC which provides pragmatic advice to global leaders in business and technology, has forecasted the software testing spends to hit Euro 100bn by 2014!

This video diary was recorded at EuroSTAR 2011. It was made by our ExpoSTAR winners, EclipseIT and they are busting bugs in the exhibition hall as we speak!

Owing to a diary malfunction of seismic proportions, Brett Gonzales is unable to attend EuroSTAR this year. However, he is already gaining much from the conference by following the on-line traffic; the blogging, tweeting and twogging coming from delegates

Cost benefit, no doubt is one of the reasons why enterprises are willingly adopting outsourcing but it is not the only reason and may not be the towering reason anymore. Outsourcing allows refocusing on other business activities that are important without sacrificing quality or service. According to Forrester 86% of companies that outsource testing report very impressive results.

Testing is a thinking profession, and we can employ the foibles of the mind into delivering an answer when faced with a ‘hard’ problem. Sometimes getting out of the situation and doing something completely different can bring the resolution we are seeking. But what has this to do with cleaning your teeth?

The EuroSTAR 2011 Gala Awards will take place on Thursday, 24th November at 8pm, in the magnificent Monastery in Manchester. Such as the place itself has an inspiring and intriguing story to tell, Microsoft, EuroSTAR 2011 Platinum Partners hope to hear your stories.