Welcome to SSTB - Swedish Software Testing Board
ISTQB in Sweden
ISTQB in Sweden
As the most widely recognized and fastest-growing software testing certification organization in the world ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) now has more than 900 000 certified testers in over 100 countries. SSTB is one of ISTQB's member boards. Besides in English, SSTB also offers a Swedish standard and Swedish testing certification according to the international standard.
Practical Tester
Do you want to practice more in testing by means of questions/answers? Then the Practical Tester might be helpful.
See here for more info and login
Full Advanced certificate
If you have all thre of the certificates below, you can get Full Advanced certificate
- CTAL-TM Test Manager / Test Management
- CTAL-TA Test Analyst
- CTAL-TTA Technical Test Analyst
A prerequisite for SSTB to issue the Full certificate is that at least one of CTAL-TM, CTAL-TA and CTAL-TTA has been issued by the SSTB
See more here
New exam CTAL-TM, Test Management
ISTQB has 2024-05-30 released a new version of CTAL-TM. It is called CTAL-TM 3.0 Test Management. It replaces the former CTAL-TM 2012, Test Manager.
Under Documents you can find Syllabus and Sample Exam.
SSTB also offer an exam. It is for 2 hours (2:30 if you are not a native English speaker) and there are 50 questions.
Chapter 7 of the new Syllabus describes changes compared to the previous one.
Here is a description of CTAL-TM 3.0
There are also videos describing the new Syllabus:
Launch video
Test Tools
Improving the Test Process
Test Metrics
Test Estimation
ISTQB training combined with certification
Combine your ISTQB exam with attending an ISTQB/SSTB accredited training course first
Accredited training providers offer courses to help you prepare for ISTQB certification.
If you register for the course and exam at the same time and pay for both in one go:
- the price of the exam will be lower than if you register separately
- for classroom courses, you will be automatically booked for classroom exams in connection with the
course
- for online courses, you will receive a voucher to use for any online exam
- you will have the opportunity to retake the exam, see below
Free re-take of the exam if you did not pass your exam after the course
Since SSTB has done the accreditation of the training providers, we have confidence that they are conducting the course professionally and with the right content; there are thus conditions for you to pass the subsequent exam.
Should you, after all, fail the exam, we have an offer. SSTB offers a free online re-examination.
Conditions for this:
- Registration for new exam is done within 3 months after your failed exam
- Applies to courses in classroom and online
- Course and exam booked at the same time
- The training provider is ISTQB-accredited through SSTB for the course on which the exam is based
- You have participated in the entire course
- The exam after the course was conducted by SSTB
- The re-examination applies to SSTB online and must be taken within six months of the course
- The offer is valid for ONE re-exam only
Registration for the re-exam is done here. If your registration is ok, you will receive a voucher code by email to use as payment when you register for your re-exam.
The training providers may also have partners who administer their courses.
See the list of training providers that are ISTQB accredited by SSTB here.
The future of software testing: the role of the tester in an AI-driven world
Software testing is undergoing a revolutionary change with artificial intelligence (AI) at the forefront. Gone are the days when AI was just a future concept. Today, it is a dynamic force leading to a new chapter in software development.
AI introduces new ways and tools that can improve testing in many ways such as bug prediction which allows the tester to focus on other, more important testing tasks.
The ISTQB AI Testing Certification is a gateway to the future of software testing. It covers testing systems that contain AI, but also how to use AI in your testing
Read more here.
There are also references to the Syllabus, Sample Exam, link to ISTQB/SSTB exam, but also a proposal for ISTQB course
Why choose training provider and a course that is accredited by ISTQB?
An ISTQB accredited training provider is someone who has extensive knowledge and experience in testing and can provide additional insight into test terminology and syllabus content to facilitate the achievement of ISTQB certification.
A course from an ISTQB-accredited training provider guarantees that the content covers all sections and parts according to the Syllabus and is therefore a good basis for your ISTQB examinations. The teacher is also certified, has knowledge of the current course and also has pedagogical skills.
Read more here
Exams
News
2024
SSTB can now offer an exam for CT-TAS 1.0, Test Automation Strategy.
It is based on the existing Test Automation Engineer (CT-TAE 2016) where the strategic content has been further developed and is now included in CT-TAS while CTAL-TAE (Test Automation Engineering) has now been developed and focused on test automation engineering.
See a description of CT-TAS here
New exam, CTAL-TAE, Test Automation Engineering
SSTB can now offer an examination CTAL-TAE v2.0, Test Automation Engineering. It is a
comprehensive update and rewrite of the earlier CT-TAE release from 2016.
Content has been significantly improved for the Test Automation Engineer role, while
strategic content has been moved to a new ISTQB® Test Automation Strategy Syllabus v1.0 (CT-TAS v1.0).
Here is a description of CTAL-TAE
Examination for the former CT-TAE, Test Automation Engineer will exist in parallel until beginning of 2025.
Examination for TAS will be offered later.
On the Glossary website, www.glossary.istqb.org, there is a QUIZ tab. There you can test yourself on ISTQB-Glossary terms. It is set up so that you can choose which ISTQB module whose terms you want to test yourself against. You can also choose the language
SSTB Has now released exam for CTAL-TM 3.0, Test Management
You can apply on Open SSTB exams
For more info, see SSTB web page
After 2024-09-01, a second camera must be used for all online examinations. What you must have is a smartphone (or tablet) that should be positioned so that the proctor gets a full view of the room where the examination takes place. The OS must be at least Android 8 or IOS 15.8 and an app (ProctorExam) must be downloaded before the exam.
The rules will soon be updated on SSTB web page.
See also Proctor exam support
Courses, exams and re-exams for CTFL 2018 with English material have expired on 2024-05-09.
They are replaced with already existing CTFL 4.0.
(CTFL 2018 with Swedish material will expire on 2024-11-09)
Certificates for CTFL 2018 are still valid as they are lifelong.
SSTB has now accredited Lemontree Enterprise Solutions AB for ISTQB Foundation Level, CTFL 4.0 with English material.
It is a 3 day course. See their website.
Lemontree offers a course and examination package where the examination is conducted by SSTB.
SSTB has now accredited Consid AB for ISTQB Foundation Level, CTFL 4.0 with English material.
It is a 3 day course. See their website.
Consid offers a course and examination package where the examination is conducted by SSTB.
Links
ISTQB-SSTB Product Portfolio
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