Head start on the Testers Choice Awards

Psst! Nominations for the Software Test & Performance Testers Choice Awards officially open on Friday, June 1st — but the nomination form is available now, and we’ll take early nominations, no problem.

We kicked off the Testers Choice Awards in 2005, and the response has been enthusiastic with ST&P readers. Here’s how we describe it:

The Testers Choice awards, conducted annually by Software Test & Performance, recognize excellence in software test and performance tools. The award comprises categories encompassing the range of tools designed to improve software quality.

The arbiters of excellence are Software Test & Performance subscribers, who vote on products in specific categories. The Testers Choice awards will consist of a winner and two finalists from each category as well as the year’s Grand Prize winner. The Grand Prize winner is a product that had the highest score within a single category; votes are not added across categories.

This year, nominations run through July 13. Voting for the awards starts on August 1. We’ll announce the award winners at STPCon Fall 2007, October 2-4 in Cambridge, and publish the full list of winners in the Dec. 2007 issue of ST&P.

You can download the nomination form now… just don’t tell anyone, okay?