Standards and Certifications
summary
A petition asks the president of ISO to suspend publication and withdraw ISO/IEC 29119 (the 29119 parts named in the text) and argues sustained opposition exists among professional testers; a short call to action and a professional testers manifesto list five claims: certification does not prove skill, hiring on certificates risks quality, vendors profit and bias standards, testing needs diversity not standardization, and refusing certification can be professional. Two paper documents circulate at CAST 2014 for signatures, with plans to publish them online; the cited ISO texts are paywalled.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10ISO standards debate
- 3:17Call against ISO standards
- 6:54Certification validity concerns
- 10:30Europe vs US certification
- 13:24Problems with testing bodies
- 16:54Testing vs development education
- 19:02Certification exam experiences
- 22:34Prep classes vs certification
- 24:18Context-dependent knowledge
- 26:26Employer-mandated certs
- 28:33Evaluating cert programs
- 30:18Closing remarks
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