Job Experience Requirements
An applicant shall provide evidence that he or she has continued performing job responsibilities in software
testing or related areas. This requirement may be satisfied through a letter from the applicant’s manager
describing the specific activities performed over the specified period of time.
Application
An applicant for re-certification shall submit the CTM re-certification Application to the Chairman of IIST
accompanied by evidence of completing both the educational and experience requirements and $180
processing fee no later than 60 days before the date the certification expires. The CTM re-certification
Application form can be downloaded from our web site at http://www.iist.org/certification.php.
The CTM Body of Knowledge
1. Test Process Management
Quality policies, processes, and standards
Process definition
Process documentation
Relationship with service management
JAD, infrastructure processes (incident
management, problem management,
configuration management, change management,
release management, etc.)
2. Test Project Management
Test planning
Task identification
Tracking
Identification of roles and responsibilities
Project controls
Metric tracking and presentation
Using automated project management tools
Using MS Project/GANTT/PERT charts and
other project management techniques
3. Test Process Measurement and Improvement
Test coverage analysis
Defining and capturing test measurements
Test maturity models
Performing assessments and using surveys
Alternative measurement goal-setting with the
CMM/CMMI, Basili goal/question/metric
paradigm
Overview of the applicable IEEE standards
4. Test Organization Management
Resource management
Politics
Training and career development
Team building and retention
Budgeting
5. Risk Management
Risk analysis methodologies
Calculating costs and probability
Monitoring and controlling risks
Risk-based test planning and management
sizing and resource planning
Defining quality goals
Process control
Best practices, including use of both static & dynamic testing
Test processes for different development models
(XP, RAD, waterfall, etc.)
Effort estimation
Scheduling
Reporting
Resource allocation (people, hardware, software, and facilities)
Financial analysis and ROI
Presentation skills
Directing, supervising, and assessing individuals’ performance
Leadership
Incident tracking and management
Basic “best practices” development metrics
Establishing process goals
Benchmarking
Overview of process improvement models such as Six Sigma,
TQM, ISO, etc.
Staffing, hiring, contracting, and reviewing performance
Equipment, facilities, hardware, and software resource
management
Ethics
Compensation
Presentation skills including data preparation
Risk identification, classification, and prioritization
Risk reporting
Contingency planning and mitigation
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