At the EuroSTAR Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2013, gerald-weinberg received the 15th European Testing Excellence Award. EuroSTAR is one of the largest software testing conferences in Europe, and the award recognized outstanding lifetime contributions to the testing profession.
The award continued a pattern of recognition from the testing community that had begun with the luminary-award-2010. As with that earlier honor, Weinberg's influence on European testing practice was largely mediated through his students and the ideas they carried: james-bach and michael-bolton had both taught extensively in Europe, and the context-driven testing school they developed drew explicitly on Weinberg's foundational concepts.
The European recognition also reflected the international reach of Weinberg's published work. Books like psychology-of-computer-programming-1971, secrets-of-consulting-1985, becoming-a-technical-leader-1986, and perfect-software-2008 had been widely read across the European software development community. Weinberg's ability to receive a testing excellence award despite not being primarily a testing author testifies to the conceptual breadth of his contribution—ideas about quality, human judgment, and programming-as-human-activity that cut across every subdiscipline of software work.