Open Certifications AST Creating an Open Certification Process Open certification involves examinations developed by the Professional community, published under a Creative Commons license, and subject to public critique. The process creates a diversity of exam types, reflecting the diversity of opinions in the professional community about what is important and what is good practice. Exams are computer-scored and free. When a candidate takes an exam, feedback includes the designated-correct answers along with the critiques stored for each answer. This provides a context for discussion. For example, suppose an employer administers this exam during an interview. After the exam, interviewer and examinee can discuss the questions and answers—this should be far more revealing than the raw score. Examinees who gave thoughtful “wrong” answers can demonstrate the worth of their answers. This type of certification is particularly important for testers because they make up a large portion of the software engineering workforce, but there is no generally accepted credential for this type of work. Industrial certifications have been put forward (some at great profit) but as measures of knowledge or skill, several practitioners consider them inadequate. The open process acknowledges the controversy of the simple answer and honors the desirable tendency of testers to challenge everything. Software testing is hardly the only subfield of CS/SE/CIS plagued with popular commercial certifications that assess examinees at low levels of the Bloom taxonomy but market the image of the examinee who passes as an expert (or at least, as someone who has a practical clue). The structure we create for testing is generalizable to many other fields. Populating that structure with assessment and study materials will take substantial work, but for a group interested in doing that work, we have a model that is open source and available for free extension. Copied from Paper on Creating an Open Certification Process by Cem Kaner and Tim Coulter.

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