The mandate has been withdrawn and the standards are off the table. This victory belongs to all of you who pushed back against these rules. Keep your eyes on the official bulletin board to ensure they hold to this decision.
October 31, 2014
Final supporters
To the President of the International
Organization for Standardisation,
We, the undersigned, hereby petition the International Organization for Standardisation to suspend publication of ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-4 and ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-5, and to withdraw ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-1, ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-2 and ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-3.
It is our view that significant disagreement and sustained opposition exists amongst professional testers as to the validity of these standards, and that there is no consensus (per definition 1.7 of ISO/IEC Guide 2:2004) as to their content.
The board of the ISST (International Society for Software Testing), and the following signatories:
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September 13, 2014
We just hit 1,000 signatures. Post this link on your professional networks and email your local standards representative today to tell them why these standards must be withdrawn.
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 11, 2014
August 29, 2014
The message behind this petition is gaining real traction across the testing industry. Take this momentum and email your local standards representative to demand they acknowledge our formal opposition.
Reached 100 supporters
August 18, 2014
August 18, 2014
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to hit this milestone before we approach the board. Post the link to your Facebook feed right now. Text three colleagues and demand they add their names to this push.
73 Comments
Our industry evolves way too fast to set standards like this. What might be a good practice now will be malpractice in the future, but if we lock it all down to an ISO standard we will be forced to adopt practices which in reality are malpractice.
Because of this standard our customers are asking some questions which does not make sense - show & document the the test policy for this project. Unfortunately the local standards organization has not educated them properly. As a result we are put to hardship
There is no more a standard way of testing software than there is a standard way of coding software, a standard Software Developer, a standard Software Tester or a standard Software Project.
Testing is thinking activity not a prescriptive activity. This standard does not appear to be representative or the entire software testing industry and is biased towards those that set to benefit from it, namely the qualifications providers who need a standard to justify their qualifications.
The success of agile software development has shown the efficiency of an empirical approach. Normalizing software thesis is anti-agile, anti-quality threat.
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The mandate has been withdrawn and the standards are off the table. This victory belongs to all of you who pushed back against these rules. Keep your eyes on the official bulletin board to ensure they hold to this decision.
October 31, 2014
Final supporters
To the President of the International
Organization for Standardisation,
We, the undersigned, hereby petition the International Organization for Standardisation to suspend publication of ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-4 and ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-5, and to withdraw ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-1, ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-2 and ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-3.
It is our view that significant disagreement and sustained opposition exists amongst professional testers as to the validity of these standards, and that there is no consensus (per definition 1.7 of ISO/IEC Guide 2:2004) as to their content.
The board of the ISST (International Society for Software Testing), and the following signatories:
Updates
September 13, 2014
We just hit 1,000 signatures. Post this link on your professional networks and email your local standards representative today to tell them why these standards must be withdrawn.
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 11, 2014
August 29, 2014
The message behind this petition is gaining real traction across the testing industry. Take this momentum and email your local standards representative to demand they acknowledge our formal opposition.
Reached 100 supporters
August 18, 2014
August 18, 2014
We are approaching one hundred signatures and need to hit this milestone before we approach the board. Post the link to your Facebook feed right now. Text three colleagues and demand they add their names to this push.
73 Comments
The committee putting the standard together simply ignored prominent and expert disagreement about its content. It also did nothing to research actual industry practice. This is a power play by a group of friends who want power over the testing industry. It's a disgrace.
Our industry evolves way too fast to set standards like this. What might be a good practice now will be malpractice in the future, but if we lock it all down to an ISO standard we will be forced to adopt practices which in reality are malpractice.
Because of this standard our customers are asking some questions which does not make sense - show & document the the test policy for this project. Unfortunately the local standards organization has not educated them properly. As a result we are put to hardship
There is no more a standard way of testing software than there is a standard way of coding software, a standard Software Developer, a standard Software Tester or a standard Software Project.
Testing is thinking activity not a prescriptive activity. This standard does not appear to be representative or the entire software testing industry and is biased towards those that set to benefit from it, namely the qualifications providers who need a standard to justify their qualifications.
The success of agile software development has shown the efficiency of an empirical approach. Normalizing software thesis is anti-agile, anti-quality threat.
Stop this!
Stop 29119
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The committee putting the standard together simply ignored prominent and expert disagreement about its content. It also did nothing to research actual industry practice. This is a power play by a group of friends who want power over the testing industry. It's a disgrace.