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SEETEST 2008
2-3 July 2008
SEETEST 2008

Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

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Test2008
13-16 October 2008
Test2008

Location: Dehli, India

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Working Party:
ISTQB Expert Level

Mission

The ISTQB Expert Level working party ultimately aims at defining the ISTQB expert level modules, based upon and following the ISTQB advanced level.

Members

The following person (WP Chair) is responsible for preparing and delivering the expected WP results:

Erik van Veenendaal, eve"at"improveqs.nl, phone 040-2021803, fax 040-2021450, Improve Quality Services, The Netherlands √

The following persons are the working party members:

  1. Ina Schiefdecker (Ger) schiefdecker"at"fokus.fraunhofer.de √
  2. Kari Kakkonen (Fin) Kari.Kakkonen"at"endero.com √
  3. Yan Baron (Isr.) Yan.baron"at"comverse.com √
  4. Graham Bath (Ger) Graham.Bath"at"t-systems.com √
  5. Meile Posthuma (NL/Be) meile.posthuma"at"mail.ing.nl √
  6. Silvio Moser (Swi) silvio.moser"at"swissq.it √
  7. Debra Friedenberg (US) Debra.E.Friedenberg"at"wellsfargo.com √
  8. Isabel Evans (UK) IEvans@testing-solutions.com √
  9. Steen Lerche-Jensen (Nor) Steen.Lerche-Jensen"at"edb.com √
  10. Rex Black (US) rexblack"at"ix.netcom.com √
  11. Alessandro Collino a.collino"at"onion.it √
  12. Bryan Bakker (NL) bba"at"improveqs.nl √

 

Review Board

The following persons are the review working party members. They will be informed by the WP chair about material ready for review:

  1. Jürgen Richter (Nor) Juergen"at"furmyr-richter.com

If any board is interested to become a review working party member please sent your application for membership via email to the Working Party chair.

Status

A document has been produced that describes the outline for the expert level.

A number of topics that need to be further elabored upon. A plan for this is being set up.

At the same time the market survey will again be taken up. Angelina Samaroo had agreed to drive this (unfortunately it hasn’t happened).

As pilot test process improvement will be the first module to be developed.

03-10-07
Over the last period a formal (high level) description document of the ISTQB expert level has been developed, voting upon, accepted and released. This document is now publicly available through the ISTQB web site.

Following a vote a subgroup within the working party is currently working on defining the continuous education policy. According to the plan this document will be sent for ISTQB review early januari at the latest and will be submitted for the march meeting for approval.

The expert level working party has performed a market survey, especially in those countries that are active at a second level of certification. The full report has been sent to all ISTQB board member. The results will be presented together with a proposed road map for the future at the Seoel meeting.

The group working on the “improving the testing process’ expert level module has finalized the syllabus at approximately 70%. Much focus from these members has been spent on the advanced level working party recently making progress slower than was expected. With the release of the AL working party, this syllabus now has focus again and is expected to be submitted for review and release at the march meeting.

The IP forms and working party agreements have been sent to all WP members. Those members who have returned their signed forms have been indicated with a √. Currently only 2 out of 13 members have returned their form.

09-03-08
Following the ISTQB vote a subgroup within the working party has developed a continuous education policy. The document has been reviewed internally. It is expected that the draft document will be sent out for review end of march 2008.

In addition progress has been made on the first expert level module “Improving the testing process”. A detailed plan and schedule for release has been defined and will be presented at the March meeting.

The expert level working party hopes that at the March meeting agreement can be reached on two more expert level modules to be developed. If not, no real progress can be achieved with the expert level.

The IP forms and working party agreements have been sent to all WP members. Those members who have returned their signed forms have been indicated with a √. Currently only 7 out of 14 members have returned their form.

Work plan

Milestones

  1. Formally approve docment “Expert Level description” -done
  2. Carry out market survey (in parralel) -done
  3. Define syllabus ISTQB Expert TPI module -running
  4. Expert level continuous education policy -running (expected draft March '08)
  5. Agreement on two more expert level modules -March 2008

Links

Will be published later.

 

Last updated: 2008-04-25