Online Black Box Software Testing Courses

About Online Black Box Software Testing Courses
Association for Software Testing

About Online Black Box Software Testing Courses
Association for Software Testing

Кстати, раз уж зашла речь об учебных курсах Канера, не могу не поделиться интересной новостью про сертификацию, а то что-то часто об этом спрашивать стали :)
Ниже -- официальный пресс-релиз.

CENTER FOR SOFTWARE TESTING EDUCATION & RESEARCH

ADVISORY BOARD MEETING, FEBRUARY 3, 2011

MELBOURNE, FLORIDA
at the HARRIS INSTITUTE FOR ASSURED INFORMATION

A HIGH-QUALITY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN SOFTWARE TESTING

We have created a certificate program in software testing (http://fit.bbst.info). We also offer a second certificate in software test design. This is a challenging series of courses that develop student skills and insight. One of our key goals is to give students the skills needed to make a successful career transition from some other career (e.g. a former job) to software testing.

There is plenty of room for collaboration. Industries are disappearing, leaving mature, business-knowledgeable workers unemployed. Unemployment is at crisis levels in the United States and in many other countries. We can help.

We would be glad to partner with professional development groups at other universities or colleges, to offer these certificates to more students through more institutions. We know how to set up training for instructors. If we design the partnership correctly, we can cross-train, cross-accredit and allow students to transfer credits across institutions. We can advertise the certificate as a joint project of the respective institutions. And we can help you develop courses that express your vision of testing or that focus on the skills you see as most important (e.g. unit testing, or test automation, or performance testing, or software metrics or programming and data structures taught in a way that would be comprehensible to career-switchers). We don't have funding for this, and it will take you a lot of work if you join the collaboration. But if we build this program to critical mass, the obvious public benefits will create new opportunities.

We don't know how to partner with private training organizations. We especially don't know how to partner with private training organizations located far away. But we would value feedback about the program and we are open to ideas about how to collaborate with training organizations in North America.

The Advisory Board meeting will discuss our certificate program. If you have an alternative idea or an alternative program, we'll be glad to talk about yours too.

The Advisory Board meeting is co-located with the 10th Workshop on Teaching Software Testing (WTST 2010. For details about WTST, visit http://www.wtst.org

Вкратце суммирую про сертификацию.
Чтобы получить Foundation Certificate, надо пройти три онлайн-курса (с домашними заданиями), (1) Foundations of Software Testing; (2) Bug Advocacy; and (3) Test Design, каждый по месяцу примерно, и сдать после этого экзамены.
А чтобы получить "полный" Certificate of Software Testing -- надо пройти дополнительно ещё пять курсов!
Вот этот сертификат уже не стыдно показывать любому работодателю.