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Welcome to RBCS, Inc.
Dear Reader
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The end of summer is coming soon,
and with the arrival of fall typically comes new projects and new
challenges. We have some ideas for how you can meet those
challenges.
One
way of meeting new testing challenges is advancing your skills. What
better way to do that than to move on to the ISTQB Advanced certification?
We have some new options to help you achieve one or more of the ISTQB Advanced
Test Manager, ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst, and ISTQB Advanced Technical Test
Analyst certifications, which we'll discuss below. You can have confidence
in choosing RBCS resources for Advanced preparation, as our pass rates are well
above the world-wide average of about 50% for Advanced exam takers. In one
recent training, 100% of attendees passed the Advanced Test Manager
exam.
Want
to achieve all three Advanced certifications? Doing so brings you into an
elite company. While over 300,000 ISTQB certifications have been issued,
less than 1% of ISTQB certificate-holders have achieved CTAL-FULL. We are
proud to have helped some of them reach that point, and you can learn more about
that below.
Something
else we're proud to be associated with is helping United States veterans enter
the testing profession. One way we do this is by collaborating with Sharp
Decisions, as discussed in a previous newsletter. Now we are pleased to
support the ASTQB in its program to implement full reimbursement for veterans
taking the ISTQB exams. More details in this newsletter.
Of course, we have a featured article in this
newsletter. This article is an excerpt of my upcoming book, Expert
Test Manager, co-written with Debbie Friedenberg. In this article, I
discuss how to recognize successful testing. Don't just guess
whether your test team is delivering value to your organization: know.
Finally,
our free webinar program continues this fall and for the foreseeable
future. We have an interesting line-up for the rest of this year, and will
kick-off the 2014 series with a presentation that recently stirred a great deal
of discussion in the Twitter world. Want to hear the talk that launched
1000 tweets? Keep tuning in to the RBCS free monthly webinar
program!
Regards,
Rex
Black, President
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 Introducing ISTQB e-Advanced
Level Exam Preparation GuidesUSD $200
With
release of the 2012 syllabus, the learning objectives for the ISTQB Certified
Tester Advanced Level training were modified to improve their meaning and
objectives were added and deleted. The RBCS ISTQB e-Advanced Exam Preparation
Guides, specifically focus on the updates to the Advanced syllabi and includes
two months of 24/7 access to sample exam questions broken down by the sections
within each chapter, a mock exam, the accompanying audio and the audio script.
The sample exam questions assess knowledge and identify areas where additional
study is needed. The mock exam assesses certification exam readiness. The exam
is built according to the relevant ISTQB exam guidelines.
Users have a
choice in which format to take the mock exam. One option provides the mock exam
with immediate feedback as each question is answered. Answer explanations are
provided with the indication of the correct or incorrect answer. The other
option provides the scenario closer aligned with the format of the certification
exam where the responses to the questions are submitted at once upon completion
of the exam. Candidates can review the quiz after the completion. The correct
answers are shown along with the user's answers but the answer explanations are
not provided with the second option.
RBCS encourages our certification
candidates to go through e-Advanced Level Exam Preparation Guide as well as read
the 2012 Advanced level syllabi specific for their course. In addition the
option to purchase a supplemental text book is available.
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Defining
Test Mission, Policy, and Metrics of Success
By Rex Black, President, RBCS
[This article is an excerpt from an upcoming book,
The Expert Test Manager, to be published by Rocky Nook this fall and written by
Rex Black and Debbie Friedenberg.]
The International Software Testing Qualifications
Board (ISTQB) program defines testing expansively. Static testing (via reviews
and static analysis) is included as well as all levels of dynamic testing, from
unit testing through to the various forms of acceptance testing. The test
process is defined to include all necessary activities for these types of
testing; planning; analysis, design, and implementation; execution, monitoring,
and results reporting; and closure.
What is the point of all this work? We could do all
of these activities in a fashion that is technically correct but still fail to
deliver any value to the business. That might seem surprising, but we have
performed a number of assessments for clients where their internal testing
processes functioned reasonably well but their work and deliverables were not
valued by any of the key stakeholders. The managers of these test groups
typically had failed to identify the stakeholders or, worse yet, in spite of
being aware of the stakeholders, failed to work collaboratively with them to
determine how to connect the testing process to something valued by each of
them.
Who are the people who
have a stake in the testing and quality of a system? We can broadly classify
them as being either technical stakeholders or business stakeholders. A
technical stakeholder is someone who understands and participates in the design
and implementation of the system. A business stakeholder is someone who is not
so concerned with the design and implementation details but does have specific
needs that the system must
fulfill.
To read this article in its entirety and to see all
of McKay's recommendations visit our articles page.
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Software
Test Professionals Conference
Fall
2013
October
21-24
Phoenix,
AZ
The Software Test Professionals Conference Fall 2013 is the conference you
won't want to miss. Each conference builds upon its successes by taking into
consideration the feedback from past attendees. This means that you receive the
educational development you want most presented in the best learning environment
possible.
Attending this conference will help you meet your professional
career goals and give you the opportunity to improve your software testing
technique; find the latest tools; discover emerging trends; develop new or
improve existing processes; network and gather with other high-level
professionals; and gain industry insight.
Register today! Enter
code STP13RBCS to receive $200 off of your registration
fee.
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 ASTQB's
ISTQB Exams Approved for Reimbursement for Veterans
Effective July 1, 2013 all
of ASTQB's ISTQB exams have been approved for student reimbursement for
veterans. For veterans taking an ISTQB Certified Tester course through
RBCS, this means that, after tuition is paid to RBCS, we will point you in the
right direction to receive reimbursement for the exam portion of your
tuition. As a reminder, all active and retired military personnel also
receive a 10% discount off of tuition!*
Appropriate Section of
Law: 38CFR21.4250
"Approval
to offer test for licensing and certification needed to enter, maintain or
advance into employment in a civilian vocation or profession under Chapter 36
for the purposes of that chapter and Chapters 30, 32 and 35 of Title 38, U.S.C.
and Chapter 1606 of Title 10, U.S.C. whichever is applicable, is granted" for
ASTQB's CTFL, CTAL-TA, CTAL-TM and CTAL-TTA exams at their applicable
fees.
ASTQB will be happy to
provide proof of payment (provided to them by RBCS) and exam results
to student veterans who need any paperwork to apply for the
reimbursement.
*registrant must
present military id. Discount cannot be combined with any other
offer.
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Complimentary
Webinars
Did you miss
the complimentary webinar August 14, 2013 "The Sherpas of
Testing Success"? Check out what you missed!
Webinar
attendees are automatically entered into a drawing to win
their choice of one of our green e-learning courses. Visit our training page to see
the complete webinar schedule, or just look on this email, sign up for a
webinar, show up at whichever webinar session is most convenient, and--who
knows--you might be the lucky winner of some valuable free training. Either way,
you're sure to learn something.
Congratulations LaBron
Thompson, an attendee of the August webinar and Michelle
Williams an attendee of the June webinar, for
being selected as the winners of an e-learning course!
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People
are Talking about RBCS
"...thank you
again for the amazing preparation you guided us through. I am incredibly
impressed with your inside-out, backwards-and-forwards, instant access to this
entire body of knowledge."
-Stephen
Leblanc, CSM, CTFL, CTAL-TM
Senior Quality Assurance
Analyst III
Risk &
Compliance
Fiserv
Recent attendee of
a public delivery of the ISTQB Advanced Test
Manager course
"...loved
the exercises!"
-Anonymous
attendee of a recent private onsite delivery of the Pragmatic Software
Testing course |
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Tip
Replace disposable products with reusable
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cartridge purchases, so you'll be saving money in more ways than
one.
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Complimentary Webinars
Earn
1.5 PDUs for select webinars. Attendance of the live webinar is
required to earn PDUs.
September 25, 2013
and
September 27, 2013
January 8, 2014
February 11,
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E-Learning Courses
Earn 22.5 PDUs for this course
US$ 899
ISTQB Test Engineering
Foundation en Español
Gana 22.5 PDU al término de este
curso
US$ 899
ISTQB Test
Engineering Foundation Level E-Learning,
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???????22.5 PDU
US$
899
ISTQB Advanced Test
Analyst
(compatible for
2012 syllabus)
US$ 999
ISTQB Advanced Technical Test
Analyst
(compatible
for 2012 syllabus)
US$ 999
ISTQB Advanced Test
Manager
(compatible for 2012 syllabus)
Earn 32.5 PDUs for this
course
US$ 999
ISTQB Advanced Level -
FULL
(compatible
for 2012 syllabus)
US$ 2,697
Requirements Engineering
Foundation
(an IREB,
IIBA and IBAQB exam preparation course)
Earn 18 CDUs for this course
US$
799
Managing the Testing
Process
US$
499
Assessing Your Test
Team
US$ 499
Pragmatic Software
Testing
US$
449
Risk Based
Testing
US$
449
US$ 499
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ISTQB Certified Tester Virtual Boot
Camps
Earn 22.5
PDUs
US$
449
October 25, 2013
11 am to 5 pm CDT
January 7, 2014
11 am to 5 pm
CST
(updated
for 2012 syllabus)
Earn
32.5 PDUs
US$
599
December 10, 2013
11 am to 5 pm
CST
(updated for 2012 syllabus)
US$ 599
November 6, 2013
11 am to 5 pm CST
February 12, 2014
11 am to 5 pm CST
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Non-Certification
Virtual Workshops
Earn
3 PDUs for attendance of these workshops
US$
199
US$
199
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Certification
Public Courses
Test Engineering
Foundation Level
Earn
22.5 PDUs for this course
US$
2,000
September 30 -
October 3, 2013
Phoenix, AZ
October 7-10, 2013
Tampa, FL
October 28-31, 2013
San
Antonio, TX
December 9-12, 2013 Toronto, Canada
Advanced Test
Manager
(accredited
to 2012 syllabus by ASTQB December 2012)
Earn 32.5 PDUs for this
course
US$ 2,650
October 21-25, 2013 Charlotte, NC
December 2-6, 2013
Newark, NJ
(accredited
to 2012 syllabus by ASTQB December 2012)
US$ 2,250
October 7-10,
2013 Toronto, Canada
October 7-10,
2013
Newark, NJ
December 2-5,
2013
San Antonio,
TX
December 9-12,
2013
McLean, VA
Advanced Technical Test
Analyst
(accredited to 2012
syllabus by ASTQB January 2013)
US$ 2,250
November 18-20,
2013
McLean, VA
(an IREB,
IIBA and IBAQB exam preparation course)
Earn 18
CDUs for this course
US$
2,500
Contact
RBCS to schedule
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ISTQB Advanced Level Test Manager Boot
Camp
Risk-based Testing
