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Aug 5, 2008 3:06:24 AM Archived Entry: "A few notes on my experience taking the 2008 ISEB exam"
First note: I did all of my studying from Brian Hambling's Software Testing: An ISEB Foundation. I also found some sample tests and did them to help with my studying.
Second note: I did not take any professional course to pass the ISEB. I've been testing for ten years; it just seemed like overkill and a huge waste of money I could use for more appropriate training.
The actual test was mostly like the sample tests, with the following differences; there was FAR more stress on the state and decision testing than the book gave (4 or 5 questions out of 40 - quite substantial!), with quite a focus on the "proper number of tests to do XX testing on this diagram" (frustrating for me; and there were PILES of questions on the proper time to do YY activity in the test process (i.e. when does test case writing/test environment setup happen - during test planning, test something else, test execution, test completion etc. etc.). I would recommend nailing the process names and order and the activities associated with each during study. I would also go over and over the state and decision testing, making sure to understand the differences between them.
I will add more to this later, but: my final score was 35/40 - pretty good for a certificate that will do NOTHING to add to my career and does NOTHING to show that a person actually knows how to test.
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