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A Short History of my ISEB Software Testing Certification involvement

Back in 2001? 2002? Back whenever I noticed the ISEB certification starting, I thought "Hmm... how strange, I wonder why they would want to do this". I read an early draft of the syllabus online and thought "Well this seems fairly simple, but misses out a lot of stuff that I do in the [...]

A View From Inside ISTQB/ISEB

Alan Richardson writes this commentary from inside one of the stupidest of the certification programs: the ISTQB (well, he says “ISEB”, but by all accounts, it’s being taken over by ISTQB stormtroopers).Long ago I also tried to change a certification program from the inside. I also failed. Now I do my best to cultivate the [...]