Tim Coulter and I presented a poster session at the ACM SIGCSE conference.<\/p>\n
Here is our poster (page 1<\/a>) and (page 2<\/a>)<\/p>\n Here is our paper<\/a>: Creating an Open Certification Process<\/a><\/p>\n I was glad to see the Agile Alliance’s position on certification<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s unfortunate that several of the groups who present themselves as professional associations for software testers or software quality workers (e.g. American Society for Quality, British Computer Society, International Institute for Software Testing, Quality Assurance Institute) are selling certifications rather than warning people off of them as Agile Alliance is doing.<\/p>\n We created the Open Certification as an alternative approach. It still doesn’t measure skill. But it does offer four advantages:<\/p>\n The open certification is a bridge between the current certifications and the skill-based evaluations that interviewers should create for themselves<\/a> or that might someday be available as exams (but are not available today).<\/p>\n The open certification exam isn’t available yet. We’re close to being finished the Question Server (see the paper<\/a>), which is one of the key components. We’ll start work on the next piece at the Second Workshop on Open Certification, which will be right after CAST 2007<\/a>. (More on both soon…)<\/p>\n In the meantime, my recommendation is simple:<\/p>\n\n
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