Our Mission
- We promote the value of software testing as a profession to individuals and organisations.
- We help software testers to be more efficient and effective in their work, through the certification of competencies.
- We enable testers to progress their career through a Professionals Code of Ethics and a multi-level certification pathway that provides them with the skills and knowledge they need to fulfil their growing responsibilities and to achieve increased professionalism.
- We continually advance the Testing Body of Knowledge by drawing on the best available industry practices and the most innovative research, and we make this knowledge freely available to all.
- We set the criteria for accrediting training providers, to ensure consistent delivery of the Body of Knowledge, locally.
- We deliver exams and issue certifications to software testers.
- We nurture an open national community, committed to sharing knowledge, ideas, and innovations in software testing.
- We foster relationships with academia, government, media, professional associations and other interested parties.
- We provide a reference point against which the effectiveness of testing services can be evaluated, by maintaining our prominence as a respected source of knowledge in software testing.