Software testing in Norway
Velkommen til Hans Schaefers hjemmeside - Welcome to Hans Schaefer's home page!
Mail: hans.schaefer@ieee.org
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You need support in testing software, to improve your testing, or someone to teach your people better ways to test?
- You need an in-house seminar or
consulting? I can cover most of
the topics in software test design and test management.
With Tilo Linz and Andreas Spillner, I am the author of "Software
Testing Foundations", a book covering the knowledge you need to
pass the ISTQB Certified Testing exam - foundation level. Get
the book at Amazon or directly
from me.
Seminars about Software Testing
Dates for my public seminars:
- March 15 to 16, 2010, Oslo, 2 day Seminar about Designing test cases for higher level testing in Oslo, organized by Confex. This seminar is the best if you or are responsible for integration, system, acceptance or beta testing but don't have a programming background.
- April 12 to 16, 2010, Advanced Test Management (ISTQB Advanced Syllabus) and risk based-testing seminar, 5 days in Stockholm, organized by ITQ.
- April 19 to 22, 2010, ISTQB Foundation Level seminar, 4 days in Oslo, organized by Confex AS. See note.
- April 26 to 30, 2010, Advanced Test Analyst (ISTQB Advanced Syllabus), 5 days in Stockholm, organized by ITQ.
- The seminar" ISTQB Testing Foundation" in Reykjavik will be arranged by Endurmenntunarstofnun Háskoli Islands www.endurmenntun.is and Iceland university. The seminar is arranged during the week of September 20 through September 24.
- ISTQB Foundation seminars in Stockholm are held by Lars Wahlberg from Cinnober Financial AB, who is accredited teacher. The seminars are arranged by ITQ.
- <>My seminars about testing and review methods in Germany and Austria are described on a Seminar web site in German. They will be organized by Knowledge Department. I am also running a few seminars (some about advanced methods for real time and embedded software) organized by imbus AG, a leading German softweare test lab and testing service provider.
- My seminars in Finland, in English language, are organized by Soft-Ed Oy. Please ask them for dates.
- My seminars in China, in English language, are organized by imbus Shanghai. Please ask them for dates.
<>Here is a description
of my
seminars
(WORD document). I teach them in Norwegian, English or German.
<>Here is a description of my accredited ISTQB Foundation Seminar. Examination pass rate is above 90%.
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Contact me at hans.schaefer@ieee.org
ISTQB - Norwegian Testing Board
The International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) has decided upon a curriculum for software testers. Your knowledge about software testing can be certified according to this curriculum. There are three levels, foundation, advanced and expert. There is also a glossary of testing terms.I am the leader of the Norwegian Testing Board. We are organizing exams in Norway and Iceland in both Norwegian and English languages. The Testing Board is currently organized as a project within the Norwegian Computer Society.
ISTQB Exams in Norway
If you want to take the exam, please register through the Norwegian Computer Society. or send mail to the Norwegian Testing Board exam manager. You need to specify your language choice: Norwegian or English. The exam does not require you to attend a seminar.If you want to prepare yourself, you may consult the "Software Testing Foundations" book, written by two colleagues (Tilo Linz and Andreas Spillner) and me.
There is also the possibility to take an exam for the ISTQB Advanced Level. Inquire here.
Note: I am only organizing exams. As I teach seminars, I have no access to neither exam questions nor the exam room. That task is done by other people of the Norwegian Testing Board. My task is to collect interested people to an exam and organize an exam to be held. In principle, an exam will be held at least once per half year in any major city in Norway and Iceland.
Take this trial exam!: If you achieve more than 75% correct results in this exam, you should stand a good change to get certified at the foundation level.
ISTQB seminars I am teaching
I am teaching an accredited ISTQB Foundation Level seminar (3 1/2 days) in Norwegian, and English. I am using 3 1/2 days instead of 2 1/2 days my competitors use, because I want you to learn how to test, not only how to pass the exam! The exam pass rate is above 90%.
I am also teaching highly successful one day exam preparation sessions, provided you have studied the material before the session. I am only doing this on request.
I am also teaching advanced test management and functional test design seminars according to your requirements.
- ISTQB Web site.
- Norwegian Testing Board Web site.
- About
the Norwegian Testing
Board and the ISTQB Qualification scheme
- Trial exam: If you
get more than 75% correct in this exam, you should stand a good change
to get
certified at the foundation level. If you get less than 60%, do not try
an exam!
- Syllabus (Foundation Level)
- Syllabus (Advanced
level, version from 2007) - accepted in Board meeting 12 Oct 2007.
Exams for this one are planned to be run in Norway from spring 2009.
- Glossary (version 2.0.1 from 2009 Norwegian)
- Glossary (version 2.0 from 2007 English)
Til alle
som har planer om å ta ISTQB Foundation-eksamen (in Norwegian)
Syllabus for ISTQB Foundation dekker 6 hovedkapitler, og eksamen inneholder spørsmål relatert til alle disse områder.
ISTQB definerer et testrammeverk med inndelinger og begrep som ikke nødvendigvis er sammenfallende med hva du er vant til fra før fra ditt daglige arbeid. Dersom det i tillegg er flere områder du ikke har vært bort i tidligere, kan det bli for mye nytt kunnskap på kurset for å kunne huske alt på eksamen som er på kursets siste dag.
Dvs. du kan ikke nødvendigvis regne med å få nok kunnskap for å bestå eksamen bare ved å gå på et kurs. Jeg anbefaler derfor alle å gjøre følgende forberedelser FØR KURSET:
- Sett deg inn i Foundation syllabus (Engelsk: www.istqb.org , norsk: www.istqb-norge.no - kan downloades). Vurder hvilke områder som er nye for deg og les spesielt disse.
- Sett deg inn i ISTQB-terminologien (Engelsk: www.istqb.org, norsk: www.istqb-norge.no - kan downloades).
- Les læreboken, og spesielt kapitlene som du har ingen/liten erfaring i fra før. Det anbefales kap. 4 i syllabus. Dette kapittel beskriver testdesignteknikkene med eksempler. Dette er nytt stoff for mange. Dette kapittel er spesielt viktig for de som ikke har programmeringsbakgrunn! Dersom du aldri har vært testleder, eller du er eneste person i et prosjekt som jobber med testing, er det en fordel hvis du leser gjennom test management-kapittelet i syllabus og lærebok. Legg spesielt merke til rollefordelingen. Gjør du disse forberedelser, har du mye mer utbytte av kurset.
Og du har veldig gode sjanser å bestå eksamen med godt resultat og bli en bedre tester!
More material for downloading ...
- What a tester should know even at night is an introduction to any testing job. It defines "the little extra" a tester should put into her job. (The article in Russian, as PDF).
- An introduction to software
test design. It discusses the values of basic systematic test
design techniques.
- How to survive as a test manager if you are under severe time and/or budget pressure. This paper has been developing thourgh the last 20 years. It is an update of a keynote presentation I gave at STAR WEST 98. It introduces the background for Risk Based Testing. Here is an Excel worksheet to do risk calculation. I am teaching a one day seminar about risk based testing. More material on risk based testing is in my presentation here, which is at the web site of Tampere university in Finland.
- How
to design test cases, an article I wrote for the magazine "Testing
Experience" in 2008.
- This page summarizes the problems of integrating distributed applications. It is a summary of an STQE Magazine article by Len DiMaggio.
- This presentation summarizes the task of integration testing.
- Acceptance testing guides: A
short guide
to acceptance testing of standard packages (in English).
A guide to acceptance testing of any products (in Norwegian). and
What to ask about the testing of your supplier (in Norwegian). All these guides can be used for system testing as well, with a little tailoring. - This paper gives you ideas of what you do if your specifications are bad or non existing. How to survive "testing in darkness".
- Here is a paper about how you can successfully introduce reviews without a great cost.
- Here is a paper about the question if you can reduce test cost after good reviews practice.
- This is a list of conferences on software testing.
- A review of the PNSQC conference 2001.
- What to do to test a system if you have bad specifications: A presentation about testing in
darkness.
- Here is a description of how I can assess your test process and give advice on how to improve it. Check also out Sogeti's Test Process Improvement Model!
- Template for tracking the test progress (Excel file)
- Templates for test status reports about defects, and test status versus risk (Excel files)
- Template for Master test plan (in English)
- Templates for test plan and test report (in Norwegian)
- Template for collecting review data (Excel file)
- Lots of articles about unit testing and static analysis from IPL
- A Guide to stress testing
- A Guide to volume testing
- Some material about tester motivation, from a Norwegian Computer Society evening speech on Jan 23, 2008
- Tailoring test
documentation using the planned new IEEE 829 Standard, from a SPICE
2008 conference speech May 2008
Special Interest Group in Software Testing
in the Norwegian Computer Society.If you work in the software testing field, the Norwegian Computer Society is the place to go to, for further links. There are working groups in Oslo, Trondheim and Bergen. Another one is being started in Stavanger. Several meetings and seminars are organized every year. We are always on the lookout for people who want to organize or present at a meeting.
Books
See <http://www.StickyMinds.com/> under "Books" for Software Testing and Software Quality Engineering's book list.
This is the ISTQB Foundation Level Certificate study book: Tilo Linz, Andreas Spillner and Hans Schaefer, Software Testing Foundations, dpunkt Verlag, Heidelberg, 2006. 2nd edition Rocky Nook, 2007. You may order the book directly from me.
Contact me here.