Information in english

Software systems are omnipresent. It is not infrequent that the life of people depends on the frictionless and reliable functioning of the programs; a point in case is medical technology. Professional verifying and testing of software therefore becomes an increasingly important task which requires well-founded education.

This is why software testing professionals from all over the world have come together in order to work out and define standardized contents for further education.

• More about ISTQB certification and exams in your country by clicking here.
• More about the ISTQB internationally.
• Here is an overview of the ISTQB Certification and the Norwegian Testing Board.
• See member-page for who is member of the Norwegian Testing Board.
  

Read and understand the exam terms and conditions (Candidates must pre-pay, and show the receipt before the exam).

If you want to take the exam, please register by mail to the Board leader. You need to specify whether you want to take the exam in Norwegian or English. For an advanced exam, please indicate what kind of advanced exam you need. If you take the exam in another language than your mother language, you have the right to 25% extra time, and to use a dictionary between your mother language and the exam language.

Seminar teachers have no access to neither exam questions nor the exam room. The exam material is managed by the exam manager. The teachers task is to collect interested people to an exam and organize an exam to be held. In principle, we will be able to arrange an exam at least once per half year in any major city in Norway. An exam is scheduled if there are at least five people who want to take it. Exams in Norway are solely arranged on (your) request. An exam does NOT require that you have attended a seminar.

Exam preparation

If you want to prepare yourself for the Foundation exam, you may study using the "Software Testing Foundations" book, written by Tilo Linz, Andreas Spillner and Hans Schaefer. See also the terminology and syllabus in the documentation page.

Take this trial exam!: If you pass more than 75% of this exam, you should stand a good change to get certified at the foundation level. The real exam requires 65% (26 of 40 points). If you have less than 60%, you should try to read and prepare more before attempting an exam.

Seminar providers

Exams to be arranged on behalf of seminar providers should be ordered using the exam request form for seminar providers in english or norwegian. Such exams should be ordered one month in advance for Foundation exams and two months for Advanced exams because we have to arrange for an exam guard. Orders with a shorter time limit will be considered, but with reservations.