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>> My colleague, Lynn McKee, is maintaining an updated list of Conferences & Workshops on her Quality Perspectives site. <<


"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

LAWST-Style Workshops:

If you are starting out in Software Testing, you might want to attend a Conference or two to expose you to a variety of themes and perspectives.  Once you find your niche, you may find that generic conferences just don't cut it any more.  Enter LAWST-style workshops.

The Los Altos Workshop on Software Testing (LAWST) is a moderated meeting with a specific theme where a limited number of senior practitioners get together to share and discuss their experiences and knowledge.  Since the first LAWST workshop, there have been many spinoffs (see below).  I highly recommend these workshops if you have expertise to share.  Call for Participation (CFP) invitations are usually posted to the various Software Testing and QA forums - keep your eyes open!

Abbreviation Workshop Name Notes
LAWST Los Altos Workshop on Software Testing This is the Home Page.  Original workshop has been replaced by other workshops now.
AWTA Austin Workshop on Test Automation  
BWST Bangalore Workshop on Software Testing (The link is to the 2009 workshop.)
IWST Indianapolis Workshops on Software Testing (The link is to the 2009 workshop.)
LEWT The London Exploratory Workshop in Testing  
POST Calgary Perspectives on Software Testing Workshop  
STiFS Software Testing in Financial Services (I've attended this one in the past)
STMR Software Test Managers Roundtable Read the guide.
TWST Toronto Workshop on Software Testing (I've attended this one in the past)
WHET Workshop on Heuristic & Exploratory Techniques  
WOPR Workshop on Performance and Reliability (I've attended this one in the past)
WREST Workshop on Regulated Software Testing  
WTST Workshop on Teaching Software Testing  
WWST Waterloo Workshops on Software Testing (I've attended this one in the past)

(This list last updated: March 2010.  These are the ones that I know of.  I've included links to home pages I could find.  Please let me know if you have any updates or additions.  Thanks.)


Conferences:

There are many, many conferences out there.  I've done my best to list as many as I know here that are: (1) relevant to Software Testers, (2) are not just Academic gatherings, and (3) occur annually (no one-offs).  Please feel free to suggest any additional worthwhile conferences that you think Testers might be interested in.  Thanks.

North America

Conference Name Notes and Relevance
Agile Development Practices Focus: Agile Development.  Orlando, FL
Better Software Conference & EXPO Focus: Various R&D topics.  Las Vegas, NV
Conference of the Association of Software Testing (CAST) Focus: Specific theme in Software Testing each year.  Various locations
Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference (GLSEC) Focus: Various SQA and Development topics.  Grand Rapids, MI
KWSQA Software Quality Assurance Conference Focus: Various Testing topics.  Kitchener-Waterloo, ON (Canada)
OWASP AppSec Conference Focus: Open Web Application Security.  Various locations
Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC) Focus: Various Testing and QA topics.  Portland, OR
Practical Software Quality and Testing (PSQT) Focus: Various Testing and QA topics.  Various locations
QAI's QUEST Conferences Focus: Software Development and Testing.  Chicago, MI, and Toronto, ON (Canada)
Software Testing, Analysis & Review - STAREast & STARWest Brought to you by SQE, the fine people behind Better Software magazine and StickyMinds.com
Focus: Various Testing topics.  STAREast is in Orlando, FL; STARWest is in Anaheim, CA
Software Test & Performance Conference (STPCon) Focus: Performance Testing.  Various locations
VERIFY International Software Testing Conference Focus: Various Testing topics.  Arlington, VA

Europe

Conference Name Notes and Relevance
EuroSTAR Focus: Various Testing topics.  Various locations
Expo:QA Focus: Various Testing and QA topics.  Madrid, Spain
International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) Focus: Various QA and Engineering topics.  Various locations
OWASP AppSec Europe Focus: Open Web Application Security.  Various locations
QA&Test Focus: QA and Testing Embedded Systems.  Bilbao, Spain

Australia and Asia

Conference Name Notes and Relevance
OWASP Australia AppSec 2008 Conference Focus: Open Web Application Security.  Gold Coast Convention Center in Queensland, Australia
Software Testing Australia/New Zealand (STANZ) Focus: Various Testing topics.  Various locations in Australia
STEP AUTO International Conference Focus: SOA Implementation and Testing topics.  Bangalore, India

(This list last updated: March 2010.  Please tell me about more conferences outside of North America so I can add them to the lists!)