AutomationSTAR next week. Your next move? đź‘€
Hello John,
Next week, we’re heading to Antwerp! The whole test automation community is meeting IRL at Room with a ZOO.
Ready to make your next move? Snap up your ticket now and join us next week. That's not the only move you can make though - this month, we’ve got a few worth considering:
đź“Ť Join us at AutomationSTAR next week
Two days to get stuck into test automation with the people building it, questioning it and making it work. We kick off in Antwerp on 4–5 November.
🎟️ Get Copenhagen in the calendar
EuroSTAR 2027 Super Early Bird tickets are live. Book now to save 30% on four days with the testing community, 11–14 May.
đź’ˇ Find something to try this week
Which automation trends are actually changing how teams work? Gomathi Ramalingam picks six — with a starting point for each.
Plus, we’ve got some competition winners to celebrate below. Their next conference adventure is sorted. Yours could be too!
Chat soon,
Fiona
EuroSTAR Community Team
See what's coming up
This time next week...
On 4–5 November, we’re gathering at Room with a ZOO in Antwerp for talks, hands-on tutorials and the chance to compare notes with people working through the same questions.
Already joining us? Have a look through the programme and start picking your sessions. Still deciding? There’s still time to get your ticket!
Next year’s testing plans. This year’s lowest price
Give yourself four days to work on your testing craft — with time to try things, ask questions and hear how other teams tackle the problems you recognise.
EuroSTAR returns to Copenhagen on 11–14 May 2027, bringing tutorials, talks, testing tools and plenty of people to talk shop with.
Book during Super Early Bird to save 30% — the lowest ticket price of the year.
Out and about
🎉Congratulations to Ruben Smits on winning a two-day AutomationSTAR Conference ticket through our competition with NoorderTest at their 2026 event!
See you at AutomationSTAR next week, Ruben, and thank you to all the team at NoorderTest for partnering with us!
🎫 We're thrilled to announce that Cenia Anderberg has won a ticket to EuroSTAR Conference 2027 through a competition with DSTB!
Special thanks to the Danish Software Testing Board for partnering with us - we look forward to seeing Cenia and all of our Danish friends in Copenhagen next year!
Latest Resources
6 trends + something you can try this week
AI can generate a test. How do you know it’s a useful one?
Gomathi Ramalingam looks at six test automation trends emerging from this year’s AutomationSTAR submissions.
She explores what’s changing in teams’ day-to-day work.
Each trend comes with one thing you can start this week. Pick one and give it a go.
News from the Community
Three talks, one honest realisation. After giving three talks in three weeks, quality engineer Jit Gosai concluded that he can’t tell teams exactly what to do, because he doesn’t know their context. What he can offer is a better understanding of how quality is created, maintained and lost, so teams can decide for themselves. He argues that matters more as AI changes how software gets built. He’s also shared slides, further reading and things to try from all three talks. Read Jit’s reflection →
Fewer places for flaky tests to hide. Playwright 1.64 landed on 7 October. A new --shuffle flag runs tests in random order to expose ones that quietly depend on each other, and gives you a seed to replay any failing run. Last month’s test locks can now cover a whole file or group, and locator.within() turns table-column queries into a single line. There are four breaking changes, so check the notes before upgrading. Read the 1.64 release notes →
AI found a decade-old bug. Is your test environment patched? PHP2Shell is a pair of critical PHP flaws that researchers found with AI. It went public on 21 October, with fixes in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35. The bugs let attackers run code without logging in, or read secrets from server memory. Testers can help by confirming the patched version is the one actually running, since workers need a restart. Check staging servers and test containers too. Read the PHP2Shell breakdown →
AutomationSTAR 2026 Sponsors & Exhibitors
A big thank you to our AutomationSTAR 2026 sponsors! 🙌 Joining us in Antwerp next week? Make time for the EXPO. Try out testing tools, catch a demo and put your questions to the people behind the products. You might find the answer to that automation challenge you’ve been wrestling with.
EuroSTAR 2027 Sponsors & Exhibitors
Get your product into the testing conversation.
What are testing teams looking for? Where are their current tools falling short? The EuroSTAR 2027 EXPO is your chance to hear it first-hand from testers and quality leaders gathering in Copenhagen.
Build conversations around their challenges, give demos that answer their questions, and make connections your team can follow up after the conference.
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