The Association for Software Testing is dedicated to improving the practice of software testing by furthering the education (knowledge, skills, and testing-relevant self-awareness) of software testers. We expect to achieve this mission through advocacy for better testing education in universities and by providing high-quality materials, instructor training, live and online training designed for those currently testing software, and direct courseware for professional development and self-study.

Introducing Live! AST Training

Whether you are looking to enhance your skills or learn something new, we can help. With a variety of thought-leading courses and time-tested classics taught by individuals with track records as both successful trainers and practitioners who are more interested in helping you succeed than convincing you that their way is the "right" way, it's hard to go wrong with Live! AST Training.

When you choose Live! AST Training, you are choosing to learn from our experiences while we learn from yours. Unlike other training you may have experienced, we invite our students to share their current challenges, challenge our ideas, present alternate approaches, and share their experiences -- so long as it is on topic and done collegiality.

We believe that you'll return from Live! AST Training with tips, techniques, suggestions, ideas, and insights derived from the experiences of our instructors and your classmates that you can employ to resolve the challenges that you bring to and share with the class. We believe that the "right" answer is the one that works for you, your project, and your business.

Simply put, if you come to Live! AST Training ready to learn, share your experiences, consider new ideas, and fully engage in the course, we are ready to go the extra mile to help you go back to the office with knowledge, skills, techniques, and/or concepts that you can apply immediately to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and overall value of your testing effort.

Registration is open now for courses in Atlanta, GA on December 1-5. If you're ready to learn something new and useful, register now before classes fill up. We're confident you won't be disappointed.

AST Training Overview

Consistent with its mission, ethics, and guiding principles, AST provides high quality training for software testers and related members of software development project teams. Specifically, we provide short, face to face, affordable, public courses we refer to as Live! AST Training and highly interactive, entirely online, instructor lead, 4-week classes (free to AST Members) known as the BBST-Series. If you are looking for training for yourself or your staff, AST Training is worth a look.

Introducing BBST Online Training

Free to members of the AST, BBST Online Training provides value that is best explained by those who have participated in the program.

The amazing fact about the BBST foundations course is that it does not restrict itself to the number of years of experience, domain, etc an individual has in testing, but rather it sets up a fantastic stage for testers with different experiences, nationalities, and backgrounds to discuss, share and learn together.

-- Sharath Byregowda

I have learned more about testing in the last four weeks than in the previous 9 years of testing! The value of BBST [Foundations] is worth more to me than any of the commercial courses I have taken' The instructors are knowledgeable and interested in each pupils success. The opportunity to tap into the knowledge of testers from around the world throughout the courseis unparalled!

-- Satisfied Student

The BBST Bug advocacy course was extremely rich in new ideas for me. I though I had a fairly good approach to bug management, but the bug advocacy course has given me a whole new perspective on how to report and manage bugs.

-- Mark Irvine

Find out more about BBST here!

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