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The ISTQB is an international non-profit organization established in 2002 to standardize software testing certification. It has 18 approved national boards that administer the ISTQB Certified Tester program. This internationally recognized certification has multiple levels (Foundation, Advanced, Expert) and over 20,000 certificate holders worldwide. The ISTQB certification evaluates candidates based on syllabi created by experienced testing experts and undergoes regular revisions to stay current. It is designed to be practical, support career growth, and promote the software testing profession through a fair and unbiased certification process.

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Why Istqb

The ISTQB is an international non-profit organization established in 2002 to standardize software testing certification. It has 18 approved national boards that administer the ISTQB Certified Tester program. This internationally recognized certification has multiple levels (Foundation, Advanced, Expert) and over 20,000 certificate holders worldwide. The ISTQB certification evaluates candidates based on syllabi created by experienced testing experts and undergoes regular revisions to stay current. It is designed to be practical, support career growth, and promote the software testing profession through a fair and unbiased certification process.

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Indian Testing Board

ISTQB Certified Tester


program
About ISTQB
„ Officially founded as a non-profit organization in
2002
„ It is the parent body responsible for approving
various national boards.
„ Responsible for the "ISTQB Certified Tester”, an
international certification
„ Currently there are 18 national boards approved
by ISTQB and others are in the process of
formation
„ For details please visit http://www.istqb.org
ISTQB Certified Tester
„ An internationally recognized tester
certification examination
„ Multi-level examination
• Foundation Level
• Advanced Level
• Expert Level
„ Over 20,000 holders of ISTQB compliant
certificate
„ De facto standard in Europe and making
rapid progress in Asia and America
How to tell a good apple from a bad
apple
„ Questions that are worth asking when
looking at a certification
• Who are the people behind this certification?
• What are the processes behind creation of this
certification?
• What does this certification evaluate?
„ If the answers to these questions are not
satisfactory then the apple is bad.
ISTQB Certification: People
„ International working groups, composed
of test practitioners, consultants, and
trainers that represent each National
Board, create the syllabi or bodies of
knowledge for the different levels.
„ Prominent personalities of testing world,
authors of books on testing, consultants
and trainers such as Rex Black, Randy
Rice, Dorothy Graham, Erik Van
Veenendaal and many more…
„ Prominent practitioners from the Industry
spread across eighteen nations
ISTQB Certification: Knowledge
„ The typical member of working group has
ten years of experience and is a published
expert on the topic of testing.
„ With five or ten people on each working
group, each syllabus represents the
distillation of 50-100 years of experience
in the field of testing.
„ The syllabi are reviewed and approved by
all the National Boards, with collectively
probably close to a millennium of test
experience amongst us all.
ISTQB Certification: Process
„ Non-profit nature of ISTQB
• Nobody pushes own agenda
• No vested interests
„ Neutral, fair and open nature of the certification
• Various national boards provide input to the syllabus,
examination questions and other processes. Removes
biases
• Not tied to any particular school of thought or
methodology
„ Any training provider can apply for accreditation
„ Dynamic certification: Syllabus, exam pattern
revised periodically
ISTQB Certification: What it tests
„ Multiple level exam
• Foundation level:
„ Tests knowledge
„ Entry level certification
• Advanced level
„ Tests skills
„ for people with
• two or more years testing experience and
• some specialization in the field, like automation, reviews, or
management;
• Expert level:
„ Tests skills
„ Expert level is for people with more than five or even more
years of experience.
„ we put in those syllabi only those techniques and
concepts that have real-world application.
Advantage ISTQB
„ It is
• Practical
• Supports a career path
• Represents the distilled wisdom of many
experts in the field
• About promoting the broad profession of
software testing rather than the narrow
financial interests of particular training
companies and consultancies
Foundation Level Exam
„ Knowledge based exam
„ Requirements
• No experience required
„ Certificate valid for whole life
„ Syllabus is crisply defined
„ Demonstrate
• a commitment to testing as a profession
• an awareness of general terminology and concepts
• the ability to apply some basic techniques like
equivalence partitioning, boundary values, and code
coverage analysis
Exam pattern
„ Exam Format
• Closed book 90 minutes exam
• 35 multiple choice questions.
• Approximately 70 marks
• Minimum 60% marks for passing
Advanced Level Exam…
„ Tests skills (as opposed to
knowledge)
„ Practice oriented
„ Much more challenging than
foundation level
„ Requirements
• Foundation level certificate holder
• At least 24 months of testing experience
Advanced Level Exam
„ Consists of three exams
• Technical Tester
• Functional Tester
• Test Manager
„ You can take any combination
„ If you clear all three, you get an
additional certificate for the complete
“Advanced Level”
Works done by ISTQB
„ Creation of a Glossary of testing
terms which will be adopted by
British Computer Society as their
standard
„ The glossary has been submitted to
ISO and IEEE too
„ The new Foundation level syllabus,
due to be released soon, will help
define testing in a much better way

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