I'm a Black Box Test Designer

More accurately I’ve passed the Association for Software Testing‘s (AST) Black Box Software Testing  (BBST) Test Design class. Test Design is a survey class, students are introduced to 30+ types of tests but there is only enough time to focus on a few of them: risk-based testing, specification-based testing and domain testing. In December I passed the Foundations course and a few days ago I started the Bug Advocacy course (there are 3 courses in the BBST series) which sets me on the path to meet my goal of taking all 3 courses this year. I also signed up for the Instructors course towards the end of the month, wahoo!

I agreed to have my name listed on AST’s graduates website but just for fun here is my certificate of completion:

The Test Design instructors thought I understood enough of the information to pass me. Test Design was like the Foundations class – a lot of reading, labs and collaboration. In the time between Test Design ending and Bug Advocacy starting I cleaned up some of the labs but I haven’t finished. My goal will be to turn these labs (work products) to build out my testing portfolio. Some day I might even make that portfolio public so others can see what I’ve done and perhaps use it as inspiration to build their own.