Software Testing Exam Study Blog For The BCS ISEB-ISTQB Certification

Does my company need a license for ISEB ISTQB? If you run a software testing group in a small to mid-sized company, at some point you have likely thought about training your employees for ISEB or ISTQB certifications. As you probably already know, there are many benefits of becoming certified, such as the fact that your employees' software testing skills, efficiency, and accuracy would be substantially improved. However, depending on how many employees you have in your group, this effort could get costly. To cap your costs, purchasing a company-wide training course license is something worth considering. What is a Company License? A company-wide license typically provides permanent access to ISEB and ISTQB training materials for an unlimited number of company employees. Licenses can typically be acquired for instructor-led classroom training as well as self-study courses. They can also usually be purchased for any certification level, including ISEB Foundatio...

What is The Fundamentals of Software Testing?  - Part 2 Please refer to part 1 before reading any further! Evaluating exit criteria and reporting:   The test “exit criteria” (established during “Test planning and control”) indicate that testing is complete.  Test closure activities: Ensure that all documentation has been correctly completed  Close down and archive the test environment, infrastructure and testware Hand over testware to maintenance team  Log lessons learned The psychology of testing:   Selecting the appropriate individual(s) to perform the tests, and communicating the results of the tests to the developers, requires a basic understanding of the psychology of testers and developers. The ISEB Software Testing guidance provides a hierarchy of ‘independence’ – that is, a list of individuals who could potentially test the software, gradated according to their perceived level of detachment from the development proces...

What is The Fundamentals of Software Testing? - Part 1   “The Fundamentals of Software Testing ” is the first module of the ISEB Software Testing Foundation course and examination syllabus. ISEB recommend that Software Testing Foundation students spend 20% of their study time on the Software Testing Fundamentals course section. “The Fundamentals of Software Testing” is also the title of the opening chapter in the official ISEB Software Testing manual. Understanding the fundamentals of software testing is clearly crucial to achieving proficiency according to the ISEB software testing professional standards. But what, precisely, are these “fundamentals” of software testing, and what do you need to know in order to pass the ISEB Software Testing Foundation examination? Why is testing necessary? According to Peter Morgan (freelance testing practitioner and member of the ISEB Software Testing Accreditation and Examination panel), an unnecessarily high proportion o...