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An election for Chair and Vice Chair roles of all ISTQB® Working Groups was held at the ISTQB® General Assembly meeting in Singapore (March 2016). 
“ISTQB® welcomes the elected Chairs and Vice Chairs”, said Gualtiero Bazzana, ISTQB® President” thanking them for their volunteer work and wishing them success for their term”

Read more in press release

ThaiGerTec has joined the program at the Silver Partnership level.

See www.thaigertec.com

Croz has joined the program at the Silver Partnership level.

See www.croz.net

Elint System has joined the program at the Gold Partnership level.

See www.elintsystem.co.jp

Valtes has joined the program at the Platinum Partnership level.

See www.valtes.co.jp

Tesena has joined the program at the Silver Partnership level.

See www.tesena.com

“As a non-profit organization, with its mission of advancing the software testing profession, ISTQB® regularly conducts international online surveys to assess the trends in the software testing industry”, said Mr. Gualtiero Bazzana, ISTQB® President.

The survey covers several topics, ranging from organizational and budgetary aspects, to techniques/ processes/ tools, through to skills and competencies within software testing. We believe it provides useful information for all professionals involved in the testing market, as well as direction for further evolution of the ISTQB® scheme.

Some highlights of the survey are listed below:

• Budgets assigned to testing are large and keep on growing
• Agile based SDLCs are being adopted ahead of traditional ones
• Segregation of duties has become a standard practice from an organizational point of view
• Training and certification of competences are key factors in improving test skills
• Test automation has become very widespread in the market
• Performance, usability and security tests are gaining traction

Read the Press Release for more information

In compiling the glossary ISTQB® has sought the views and comments of as broad a spectrum of opinion as possible in industry, commerce and government bodies and organizations, with the aim of producing an international testing standard which would gain acceptance in as wide a field as possible.

Contributions to this glossary have been received from testing communities throughout the world. The ISTQB® Glossary is used as a reference document for the International Software Testing Qualification Board® (ISTQB®) software testing qualification scheme.

The document presents concepts, terms and definitions designed to aid communication in (software) testing and related disciplines.

The ISTQB® Glossary working party delivers a glossary of testing and related terms that is used as a reference / source document for syllabi at Foundation, Advanced and Expert level.

The Glossary application is available at http://astqb.org/glossary/

The ISTQB® General Assembly meeting of Shanghai 23 October has approved the development of the Foundation Level Specialist Usability Testing module, along with the supporting documentation.

ISTQB® is proud to announce that Erik van Veenendaal is the winner of the ISTQB® International Software Testing Excellence Award 2015. The main reason of him winning this award is his enormous commitment to software quality and the testing profession over the past 30 years. Erik van Veenendaal is an internationally recognized testing expert, (co-)author of 19 books and has published a large number of papers. Not only is he occupied as an independent consultant doing consultancy, training, publications and presentations throughout the testing and quality management community he is also actively involved in the TMMi® Foundation, International Software Testing Qualifications Board® and the IREB® organization.

Read about the Award

The ISTQB® General Assembly meeting of Shanghai 23 October has approved the Release of the Model-Based Testing Foundation Extension Syllabus, along with the supporting Documentation. For more information about ISTQB® MTB here

Business Outcome:
Effectively create and maintain MBT models using established techniques and best practices of model-based testing.

• Problem: The quality of models is essential for a success of MBT in a given Project.  Many users do not have the knowledge to decide about the quality and therefore to have a criteria on hand to decide when the model is finished for a given task.
  
  
• Solution: The ISTQB® MBT certification gives a practical approach to create MBT models and to assess their quality. It shows a perspective of the modelling paradigm as a process which helps people to correct their approach as soon as possible if it goes in the wrong direction.

Model-Based Testing Foundation Extension Syllabus will be published on this year. Stay tuned and follow our news on www.istqb.org

Business Outcome:
Apply and integrate model-based testing in a test process.

• Problem: MBT needs process preconditions and prerequisites, that it can realize its full potential to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the test process. As long as this environment is not known and can not be calculated, people tend to avoid a new technology because of economic risks
  
  
• Solution: The ISTQB® MBT certification shows which prerequisites are mandatory for a successful start with MBT. Furthermore it shows how MBT could fit well to specific development processes and what should be taken into account to adapt a development process for MBT.

Model-Based Testing Foundation Extension Syllabus will be published on this year. Stay tuned and follow our news on www.istqb.org

Business Outcome:
Collaborate in a model-based testing team using standard terminology and established MBT concepts, processes and techniques.

• Problem: Since MBT was born, many terminology were created and used which lead to inefficient discussion about what MBT really is, before any productive realization could start.
  
  
• Solution: The ISTQB® certifications deliver a de facto standard for general testing terminology and integrated to that the terminology for model-based testing. This will make it much easier for users to start with MBT based on a common language within their organization

Model-Based Testing Foundation Extension Syllabus will be published on this year. Stay tuned and follow our news on www.istqb.org

Model-based testing is an innovative test approach to improve effectivity and efficiency of the test process.
A model-based tester on a project uses models to drive test analysis and design, and keeps advantage of the models for other testing activities such as test implementation and reporting.
ISTQB® Model-Based Tester certification complements the core foundation level as a specialist module. It provides a practical and easy entry to the MBT approach.

ISTQB® General Assembly will meet in October 23rd 2015 in Shanghai, China. The meeting will be preceded by working group meetings as well as an international testing conference.

ISTQB® General Assembly will meet in June 12th 2015 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The meeting will be preceded by working group meetings as well as an international conference.

ITWORKERS has joined the program at the Silver Partnership level.

See http://itw.mx/index.html

Blizzard Entertainment China has joined the program at the Platinum Partnership level.

See www.blizzard.com

The ISTQB® General Assembly meeting of Copenhagen 12 June has approved the Beta Release of the Model-Based Testing Foundation Extension Syllabus, along with the supporting Documentation.

Bilbomática S.A. has joined the program at the Gold Partnership level.

See www.bilbomatica.es

The ISTQB General Assembly in Copenhagen elected new leaders to head the Marketing Working Group and Governance.

Kaspar Loog was elected as Interim Chair for the Marketing Working Group. Mr Loog is from Estonia and running a testing technology startup Browserbite. He is also serving as the Estonian Board representative in ISTQB.

Oliver Denoo from the French Testing Board was elected as Interim Vice Chair for Governance. Mr Denoo is currently serving as Managing Director for ps_testware SAS in France.

The International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB®) is proud to announce that, as of March 2015, more than 540,000 software testing certification exams has taken place worldwide.

As of March 2015, ISTQB® has issued almost 400,000 certifications in 100 countries world-wide.

The scheme relies on a Body of Knowledge (Syllabi and Glossary) and exam rules that are applied consistently all over the world, with exams and supporting material being available in many languages.

See more facts & figures

The General Assembly meeting of Copenhagen 12 June approved the admission of Pakistan as a new ISTQB® member.

Find the ISTQB® Board closest to you here: www.istqb.org/istqb-where-you-are/geographic-coverage.html

First of all, find out why it is important choosing ISTQB® Certification through the description of its features and benefits.
Then, discover all the ISTQB® Certifications.

See more in www.istqb.org/certification-path-root.html

FiSTB Testing Assembly is a two-day event this year at Hotel Presidentti (http://www.sokoshotelpresidentti.fi/).

We expect to get 200+ people to the seminar on Thursday 24.9. Theme of the seminar is Agile Testing – What can we learn from agile testing in startup companies. Keynote speakers will be Janet Gregory and Pekka Hyysalo!

On Wednesday 23.9 we will organize a tutorial day with Janet Gregory, where participants are limited to 30 people. You have a possibility to take an ISTQB® certification exam after the seminar on 24.9.

Seminar is for free for FiSTB members, ISTQB®/ISEB-certificate holders and TestausOSY/FAST-members.

For others the participation fee is 100€. The tutorial and exams have separate pricing.

Location: Helsinki, Finland

More info in testingassembly.fistb.fi