Posted on October 12, 2021
ISTQB® releases Certified Tester AI Testing v1.0 (CT-AI)
ISTQB® has released the Certified Tester AI Testing (CT-AI) version 1.0. This is the first CT-AI certification and is part of the specialist stream within the ISTQB® Certified Tester Scheme. It is an in-demand next step after the ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL).
The release consists of the ISTQB® Certified Tester AI Testing Syllabus (v1.0), Sample Exam Questions and Answers (v1.0), CT-AI Overview (v1.0) and Accreditation Guidelines (v1.0) each supported by ISTQB® Glossary keyword items and Business Outcomes with full Learning Objectives traceability. The combined Exam Structure and Rules has been updated to v1.1 and Exam Structure Table to v1.2.
An overview of the product as well as sunset and grandfathering are in the Release Notes on the ISTQB® website.
The content of the new syllabus addresses 7 business outcomes via 68 learning objectives.
What does this ISTQB® CT-AI release mean?
- The 1.0 syllabus for CT-AI will be the prevailing current version.
- The other AI relates syllabi from A4Q, AiU and CSTQB/KSTQB will be valid to October 12th 2022
- Accredited Training will remain as 3+ days (minimum 25,1 hours)
- Accredited courses require accreditation of training materials, as described in the ISTQB® Accreditation Process
- Holders of the A4Q, AiU and CSTQB/KSTQB previous versions continue to hold a valid certification.
ISTQB® President Olivier Denoo stated:
“AI has moved into high gear. From a simple writer's dream, from a filmmaker's fantasy, it has become a reality and invites itself today in many aspects of our daily life, whether we are aware of it or not. It sorts, advises, guides our decisions, entertains us or even corrects our mistakes sometimes.
It is also, more and more often, our ally to better test these ever more complex and ever more present software.
This new ISTQB® syllabus and the accompanying certification are designed to help you test AI better (because yes, of course, AI can be tested too) or to understand how to test better with AI. It is the result of a long collaboration with world-renowned experts from service companies and academia.
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the members of this multidisciplinary task force who have worked hard to bring the best of AI to you.
Enjoy your reading!”
Chair of ISTQB® Marketing Working Group Sebastian Małyska, noted:
“AI, Machine Learning and/or Deep Learning is not a new concept. Over the years people were more or less enthusiastic about this technology. However a strong mathematical background and increasing power of our processors caused us to witness real productization of such technology which gives real benefits to its users. Those have many implications and, as an example, software needs to be designed and tested with new approaches. We are defining new quality characteristics. AI can be part SUT as well as an everyday tool used in testing activities. And many, many more. One of the manifestations of the wide interest in this topic was several syllabuses launched into the market in recent times. Three independent organizations developed three different syllabuses targeting the same area of knowledge. Thanks to ISTQB®, the certification standard for testing related to AI has been stabilized and unified allowing, in my opinion, for further development of the testing knowledge base on the widely understood AI systems. I personally see a greater advantage in such unification that allows tests to find one complementary source of information allowing us to make our testing even more advanced than before.”
Thank you to all who have supported this syllabus. Especially the task force team Klaudia Dussa-Zieger (chair), Werner Henschelchen, Vipul Kocher, Qin Liu, Stuart Reid, Kyle Siemens, and Adam Leon Smith. Also authors of the three contributing syllabi:
- A4Q: Rex Black, Bruno Legeard, Jeremias Rößler, Adam Leon Smith, Stephan Goericke, Werner Henschelchen
- AiU: Main authors Vipul Kocher, Saurabh Bansal, Srinivas Padmanabhuni and Sonika Bengani and co-authors Rik Marselis, José M. Diaz Delgado
- CSTQB/KSTQB: Qin Liu, Stuart Reid
The team thanks the Exam, Glossary and Marketing Working Groups for their support throughout the development of the syllabus.
(Source: ISTQB)
Posted on August 10, 2021
Never ever ask for estimations
The omniscient corny horn pours out the following words of wisdom:
Project managers never ask Chuck Norris for estimations… ever.
Posted on August 9, 2021
The Little Tester #159
These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size.
The team members are:
- Little, the main character. The team’s tester.
- Coffee, the team’s Java developer.
- Mr. Fancy, the team’s UI developer.
- Senor, the Senior Developer of the team.
- Kitty, the Scrum Master.
- Glasses, the Business Analyst.
- And the manager.
Disclaimer
- This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, situations presented are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.
- The sole purpose of this comic strip is to be humorous.
- The drawings are made by hand on paper, by means of pencils and fine liners, except for the outline, by the author. Hence their imperfection.
Cyndi wants you to know: "The formatting of this article went shite due to causeless use of HTML <blockquote> tags in the original post." 🤷♀️
Posted on August 2, 2021
The Little Tester #158
These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size.
The team members are:
- Little, the main character. The team’s tester.
- Coffee, the team’s Java developer.
- Mr. Fancy, the team’s UI developer.
- Senor, the Senior Developer of the team.
- Kitty, the Scrum Master.
- Glasses, the Business Analyst.
- And the manager.
Disclaimer
- This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, situations presented are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.
- The sole purpose of this comic strip is to be humorous.
- The drawings are made by hand on paper, by means of pencils and fine liners, except for the outline, by the author. Hence their imperfection.
Cyndi wants you to know: "The formatting of this article went shite due to causeless use of HTML <blockquote> tags in the original post." 🤷♀️
Posted on July 26, 2021
The Little Tester #157
These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size.
The team members are:
- Little, the main character. The team’s tester.
- Coffee, the team’s Java developer.
- Mr. Fancy, the team’s UI developer.
- Senor, the Senior Developer of the team.
- Kitty, the Scrum Master.
- Glasses, the Business Analyst.
- And the manager.
Disclaimer
- This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, situations presented are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.
- The sole purpose of this comic strip is to be humorous.
- The drawings are made by hand on paper, by means of pencils and fine liners, except for the outline, by the author. Hence their imperfection.
Cyndi wants you to know: "The formatting of this article went shite due to causeless use of HTML <blockquote> tags in the original post." 🤷♀️
Posted on July 19, 2021
The Little Tester #156
These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size.
The team members are:
- Little, the main character. The team’s tester.
- Coffee, the team’s Java developer.
- Mr. Fancy, the team’s UI developer.
- Senor, the Senior Developer of the team.
- Kitty, the Scrum Master.
- Glasses, the Business Analyst.
- And the manager.
Disclaimer
- This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, situations presented are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.
- The sole purpose of this comic strip is to be humorous.
- The drawings are made by hand on paper, by means of pencils and fine liners, except for the outline, by the author. Hence their imperfection.
Cyndi wants you to know: "The formatting of this article went shite due to causeless use of HTML <blockquote> tags in the original post." 🤷♀️
Posted on July 12, 2021
The Little Tester #155
These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size.
The team members are:
- Little, the main character. The team’s tester.
- Coffee, the team’s Java developer.
- Mr. Fancy, the team’s UI developer.
- Senor, the Senior Developer of the team.
- Kitty, the Scrum Master.
- Glasses, the Business Analyst.
- And the manager.
Disclaimer
- This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, situations presented are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.
- The sole purpose of this comic strip is to be humorous.
- The drawings are made by hand on paper, by means of pencils and fine liners, except for the outline, by the author. Hence their imperfection.
Cyndi wants you to know: "The formatting of this article went shite due to causeless use of HTML <blockquote> tags in the original post." 🤷♀️
Posted on July 5, 2021
The Little Tester #154
These are the made up stories of a team working in an Agile environment. Their daily struggles and successes are presented in a comic/parody/satirical way. Click on the image to see it in full size.
The team members are:
- Little, the main character. The team’s tester.
- Coffee, the team’s Java developer.
- Mr. Fancy, the team’s UI developer.
- Senor, the Senior Developer of the team.
- Kitty, the Scrum Master.
- Glasses, the Business Analyst.
- And the manager.
Disclaimer
- This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, situations presented are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental.
- The sole purpose of this comic strip is to be humorous.
- The drawings are made by hand on paper, by means of pencils and fine liners, except for the outline, by the author. Hence their imperfection.
Cyndi wants you to know: "The formatting of this article went shite due to causeless use of HTML <blockquote> tags in the original post." 🤷♀️
Posted on July 1, 2021
ISTQB® releases Certified Tester Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst v4.0 (CTAL-TTA)
ISTQB® has released the Certified Tester Advanced Level (CTAL) Technical Test Analyst (TTA) Version 4.0. This is a major update to the CTAL-TTA certification. CTAL-TTA is a “Core” module within the ISTQB® Certified Tester Scheme and an in-demand next step after the ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL).
The release consists of the ISTQB® Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Syllabus (v4.0), Sample Exam Questions and Answers (v4.0), CTAL TTA Overview (v4.0) and Accreditation Guidelines (v4.0) each supported by ISTQB® Glossary keyword items and Business Outcomes with full Learning Objectives traceability. The combined Exam Structure and Rules has been updated and released also (v1.1).
An overview of the main changes in the new 4.0 version compared with the 3.0 (2019) version can be found in the Release Notes on the ISTQB® website. Overall v4.0 updates impact 8 out of 40 Learning Objectives.
Please note the year of the syllabus release is no longer specified in the version control naming convention for CTAL-TTA meaning:
- 2021 version is referred to as v4.0
- 2019 version is referred to as v3.0
- 2012 version is referred to as v2.0
What does this CTAL-TTA update mean?
From June 30th 2021 the following will apply
- For English language - the 4.0 syllabus for CTAL-TTA will be the prevailing current version.
- The previous 3.0 version in English will be valid to June 30th 2022
- For non-English Syllabi, the 3.0 version will be valid to December 31th 2022
- Accredited Training will remain as 3 days
- Accredited courses require accreditation of training materials, as described in the ISTQB® Accreditation Process
- Training courses and exams in other languages may continue for the CTAL-TTA 2012 (v2.0) syllabus until August 3rd 2021 and for the CTAL-TTA 2019 (v3.0) until December 31st 2022
- Training courses and exams in English language for CTAL-TTA 2019 (v3.0) will be valid until June 30th 2022
- Training courses and exams in English language for CTAL-TTA 2012 (v2.0) are no longer valid
- Holders of the CTAL-TTA 3.0 and any previous versions continue to hold a valid certification.
ISTQB® President Olivier Denoo stated:
"The ISTQB® is proud to release a major update to Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst (CTAL-TTA).
This update was required in order to address important and relevant issues in the 2019 version reported by Member Boards and other stakeholders.
A timely response was required to protect the reputation of ISTQB® and to improve the acceptance of the CTAL-TTA syllabus in the testing community.
Therefore, the Advanced and Expert Level Working Group has spared no effort to make the necessary changes to make this syllabus an even better and even stronger international reference.
I would like to thank the entire team for having been able to make these corrections quickly and effectively in these times troubled by the health crisis.
I hope that you will immediately start using these updated materials as part of the career development programs in your organizations to accelerate your technical testing skills.
I wish you all a happy reading. Stay tuned and take care..."
Chair of ISTQB® Marketing Working Group Sebastian Małyska, noted:
"Our organization is never giving up on our journey to quality. We are committed to the QA community and always open for constructive feedback. If this occurs we react. Never forgetting the need for business continuity which is very important for our partners and those aiming for certification."
Thank you to all who have supported the update including Mette Bruhn-Pedersen (ISTQB Advanced & Expert Level Working Group Chair), Armin Born, Adam Roman, Christian Graf, Stuart Reid (Authors) and many others from Exam & Marketing Work Groups.
(Source: ISTQB)