Working Party:
ISTQB ‘Advanced Level syllabus’
Mission
Develop the new Advanced Level syllabus, based on the ISEB and ASQF versions, and developing on the basis of the ISTQB Foundation Level syllabus v2005
Members
The following persons (WP Chair and Vice Chair) are responsible for preparing and delivering the expected WP results:
Bernard Homès, CFTL French Software Testing Board
Mike Smith, UK testing board
The working party is split in two teams: Authors and Reviewers
Author Team:
| FRA : Bernard Homès (Chair) USA: Rex Black, Judy McKay, Randy Rice GER: Graham Bath GB: Geoff Thompson |
HOL: Erik van Veenendaal DAN: Klaus Olsen |
FAQ Team:
| FRA: Bernard Homès (chair) USA: Rex Black UK: Mike Smith (Vice Chair) |
GER: Graham Bath |
Review Team:
| FRA : Eric Riou Du Cosquer GB: Mike Smith HOL: Erik van Veenendaal, Miele Posthuma SWI: Thomas Mueller, Rajesh Sivaraman UKR: Robert Dankanin MAL: Prof Madya Dr Nordin Abu Baka, Dr Suhaimi Ibrahim IND: Vipul Kocher JAP: Tsuyoshi Yumoto |
ANZ: Chris Carter ISR: Avinoam Porat, Michael Stahl CHI: BeiJun Shen FIN: Erkki Pöyhönen NOR: Dijana Novakovic, Hans Schaeffer POL: Jan Sabak Jürgen Richter LASTQB: Maria Clara Choucair |
Status
Approved, working.
Status Reports
Done:
- Form the Working Party.
- Create initial draft
- 26APR07 Distribute draft to National Boards for comments prior to approval.
- Obtain review comments from National Boards.
- Process the National Boards comments
- 04JUL07 issue of the ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level syllabus, beta version for acceptance vote by the ISTQB members
- 12JUL07 vote for acceptance by the ISTQB members.
- 12OCT07 vote for acceptance of the ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level syllabus, 2007 version.
This is an aggressive plan, but given our deadlines I believe it is necessary.
Milestones
| Activity | Planned | Actual |
| Creation of new WP | 30MAR06 | 30MAR06 |
| Election of chair | 30MAR06 | ≈10APR06 |
| Selection of Authors and assignment of chapters | 17APR06 | 17APR06 |
| Merge of the initial drafts of the chapters | 31JUL07 | 17JAN07 |
| Internal draft 01 provided for comments | 18JAN07 | 18JAN07 |
| 1st meeting of authors (only 3 authors) | 20-21JAN07 | 20-21JAN07 |
| Internal draft 02 provided for comments | 18FEB07 | 18FEB07 |
| Comments received from reviewers | 16MAR07 | 29MAR07 |
| Internal draft 03 merged | 28MAR07 | 28MAR07 |
| 2nd meeting of authors & reviewers (8 present) | 31MAR07- 01APR07 |
31MAR07- 01APR07 |
| Internal draft (08) provided for comment | 03APR07 | 03APR07 |
| ISTQB ALWP meeting (Dusseldorf) | 27APR07 | 27APR07 |
| Meeting of authors and review team to process the major chapter comments/changes | 28APR07 | 28APR07 |
| Release as draft version to gather comments by the ISTQB members | 01MAY07 | 09MAY07 |
| End of period for submitting comments | 08JUN07 | 10JUN07 |
| 3rd meeting of authors to merge comments The number of comments 1500+ and the extend of the changes suggested to create a “beta” version that would allow, from date of release, 2 months to process feedback from training providers. |
23-24JUN07 | 23-24JUN07 |
| Publication of the “beta” release of the ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level syllabus, with its distribution to the training providers and ISTQB members | 12JUL07 | 30JUL07 |
| Publication of the release for balloting, including the latest corrections and Learning Objectives | 03SEP07 | 03SEP07 |
| Set up of a change request process for requested future changes | 12JUL07 | 14AUG07 |
| Final version published at ISTQB general assembly meeting in Seoul (Korea) | 12OCT07 | 12OCT07 |
Release plan
Proposed release plan under the responsibility of Rex Black as per decision at Seoul Meeting.
| Activity | Planned | Actual |
| Release plan proposed (GA Draft 2) | 22OCT07 | 10NOV08 |
| Proposed release plan accepted by 6 boards only | 11-16NOV07 | |
| Current status: unclear |
Change Mgmt.
| Activity | Planned | Actual |
| Gather all proposed changes to the syllabus | Ongoing | Ongoing |
| Proposed release plan accepted by 6 boards only | 11-16NOV07 | |
| To this date eight (mostly minor) change proposal have been submitted. They do not need a change in the syllabus at this time |
Glossary
| Activity | Planned | Actual |
| Provide data for Glossary V2.0 update | DONE | DONE |
| Status : accepted | 11-16NOV07 |
Accreditation
| Activity | Planned | Actual |
| Guidelines “Recommendations for Evaluation - AL Trainings V3” provided to Executive Board | 22NOV07 | 22NOV07 |
| Recommendations for Evaluation - AL Trainings accepted by ISTQB |
Examination
| Activity | Planned | Actual |
| Exam_Format_and_Guidelines_2007 document provided by Executive Board |
IP Rights Check
| Activity | Planned | Actual |
| Removal of some members due to IP rights trans-fer documents not being provided on time | 14APR08 |
FAQ startup
| Activity | Planned | Actual |
| The members of the FAQ team were selected among the authors | mid-MAY08 | |
| A proposed way forward was proposed for proc-essing FAQ questions regarding the AL syllabus | 07JUN08 | |
| No response yet from the members contacted |
Last updated: 2009-10-19