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- The International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) defines knowledge
requirements and a certification scheme for software testers. Go and
take an exam! This is
the web page of the
Norwegian Testing
Board.
- Insite Consulting in
Bergen has resources for test management.
- Kantega AS in Trondheim has
resources for test management.
- Sogeti has all details of the
Test Process
Improvement model (TPI).
- Nohau AS in Sweden supplies tools,
consulting and training on testing real time and embedded systems.
- The Danish site www.softwaretest.dk,
maintained by Klaus Olsen,
is the entry point to many
interesting software testing links and
contains a Danish Terminology.
- The British Computer Society Working Group for Software Testing
Standards: www.testingstandards.co.uk/
. They develop standards for nonfunctional testing. Look at the draft
standards
on their web site, and contribute with comments and input!
- Elisabeth Hendrickson, founder of Quality Tree Software, runs a
web site with lots of testing
heuristics and discussions, especially about agile testing methods.
- Vipul Kocher, founder of Pure Testing, an Indian test
consultancy, has a web site explaining testing
patters (Q-Patterns).
- International Standards on Software Engineering, like ISO/IEC
12207, ISO/IEC
14598 series, ISO/IEC 29119 and ISO/IEC 9126 are developed and enhanced
by ISO/IEC
JTC1
SC7: SC7 WebSite: www.jtc1-sc7.org
- FAQs of the internet news group comp.software.testing: www.faqs.org/faqs/software-eng/testing-faq/,
http://www.rstcorp.com/c.s.t.faq.html
- Software Research www.soft.com
organized
the Quality Week conferences. They are also a test consultancy and test
tool supplier. Have a look at their Software Quality Hot list www.soft.com/Institute/HotList/
for more than 2400 interesting links about quality and testing! They
publish
a monthly free e-mail newsletter.
- Quality Logic: A company specializing in standard test suites.
For
phone,
fax, scanning, and printer interfaces.
www.qualitylogic.com
- Hung Nguyen, author (with Cem Kaner) of "Testing Computer
Software" and
author of "Testing Applications on the Web", runs a site with lots of
papers
and references: www.qacity.com.
- LogicaCMG, a Dutch consulting company, has a good method for test
automation
called TestFrame. It is independent of the tools you use. www.logicacmg.com
- A German site about advanced testing of real time systems: www.systematic-testing.com/.
The author, Joachim Wegener, also developed a freeware tool for
generating combination test cases, the Classification Tree Editor (CTE).
- Bret Pettichord, one of the authors of "Lessons Learned in
Software Testing", has a home
page with many useful texts and links.
- Cem Kaner www.badsoftware.com
is a lawyer, professor at Florida Polytechnic and software test
specialist.
Author of the books "Testing Computer Software", "Bad Software" and,
with Bach and Pettichord, "Lessons Learned in Software Testing". The
"Bad
Software" book is about lack
of quality in consumer software and legal implications. He has written
a lot of good papers. See some at www.kaner.com.
- Brian Marick has an extensive web page with testing concepts: www.exemplar.com.
- The Association for Software Testing (AST)
is a
recently formed nonprofit professional organization dedicated at
advancing the understanding and practice of software testing. It is
mostly based in the USA.Context driven testing is a way to make sure
testing conforms to
the requirements of the environment. The principles are laid out at
their web site,
including links to the authors of important testing books.
- Disha Technologies supplies
independent and offshoring testing services.
- Allied Testing
supplies independent and offshoring testing services based on a lab in
Russia.
- SQA Partners supplies
testing services for localisation and internationalisation.
- SEPT supplies
information about Software Engineering Standards.
- Test automation
requires construction of a suitable framework. This company may
help
you.
Seminar providers
- Soft-Ed Oy
organizes testing seminars in Finland.
- Imbus AG (Germany) offer
software testing seminars where I cooperate as an instructor. There are
special seminars about testing real time systems and embedded systems.
They also offer accredited ISTQB certification seminars, in German and
English.
- Knowledge
Department
organizes seminars
on software quality and software testing in Germany and Austria.
- ITQ organizes seminars
about software quality assurance and testing in Sweden.
- Best-Testing from Israel has a very good teacher for test
management related issues: Alon
Linetzki.
- Nohau AS in Sweden supplies tools,
consulting and training on testing real time and embedded
- Grove consulting runs
excellent software testing seminars mainly in the UK, but some times in
Norway. The have seminars for Foundation and Advanced levels of the
ISTQB certification, as well as one of the best seminars about test
automation.
- Kantega AS in Trondheim,
Norway, arranges courses in performance testing as well as ISTQB
Foundaiton seminars.
- Software Quality Engineering in
the USA as well as SQE Europe organize conferences and specialized
testing seminars.
- Leysen Inc. is a UK-based company distributing self study courses
on CD-ROM. You can
check yourself on an evaluation copy
Tester certification
There exists an international certification scheme for software
tester knowledge. You get more information about this on International Software Tester
Qualifications
Board. The author of these pages is chairman of the Norwegian
Board. ISTQB Norway
information.
Test Tools
- Softwareqatest.com
has
lots
of good tool links. Here is the special link to testing
tools.
- A list of open source testing tools is on www.opensourcetesting.org.
Other sites for open source tools
are www.freshmeat.net and sourceforge.net.
- http://www.testingfaqs.org/tools.htm
has a tool supplier list.
- The site www.aptest.com has
many
interesting
software testing links, especially to tools.
- A Link to CASE tools. Many of
these may be useful for testers.
- IPL, www.ipl.com has tools
for unit
and integration test of Ada, C, C++ programs. Some
good papers about unit testing are on their web site.
- LDRA, www.ldra.com has
static
analysis, test harness generator and coverage analysis tools many
languages and platforrs. Some
good papers about unit testing are on their web site.
- Imbus AG (Germany) has an advanced and flexible flexible solution
for
test management: imbus TestBench. They have many links to other
tool suppliers. They also offer software testing seminars where I
cooperate as an instructor. There are special seminars about testing
real time systems and embedded systems. Their marketing director
(together with Prof. Andreas Spillner from Bremen university) has
written the German book "Basiswissen Software Testing", containing the
curriculum for the ISTQB foundation level certificate for software
testing. The book has also been published in Dutch and is soon to be
published in English with my translation.www.imbus.de
- Autotestco, www.autotestco.com
, has good links to test tools suppliers, but also to seminar companies
in the USA, as well as a book about test automation.
- Ovum Ltd. continually
evaluates
the most
used testing tools. You can order their (expensive) report "Ovum
Evaluates:
Software Testing Tools", as well as continuous updates.
- The CASEMAKER tool is an
efficient solution to making test cases using typical black box test
design methods.
- Leirios Technologies
supplies a model based testing tool, generating test cases
automatically from specifications.
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