Reviewing Drafts Through Your National Standards Body

We are pleased to announce the official release of committee drafts of the new ISO/IEC 29119 Software Testing standard. Drafts of parts 1, 2 and 3, which cover (1) Concepts and Definitions, (2) Test Process and (3) Test Documentation, are now available for review by experts worldwide.

If you would like to obtain a copy of the latest draft of the standard and provide us with your valuable feedback, you can contact request a copy of the standard to review from your national standards body. To do this, simply follow these three steps:

Step 1: Follow this link to obtain the contact details of the national standards body in your country: http://www.iso.org/iso/about/iso_members.htm.

Step 2: Send an email to your national standards body, requesting a copy of the latest drafts to review.

Step 3: Review the standard and provide us with your feedback by emailing it back to your national standards body.

We value your feedback and welcome the opportunity to develop a standard that represents the interests of software testing experts worldwide. We hope you will take us up on the exciting opportunity of being able to be a part of the review of this standard.

Join the Working Group

The most significant way people can get involved is to join the sofware testing working group (WG26) that is responsible for the development of the standard. This requires the most amount of commitment. To do this, you first need to become a member of your national standards body and then become a member of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 WG26 (Software Testing). This requires attendance to 6 days of meetings, every 6 months, at various locations across the world. ISO/IEC do not provide funding to members of working groups to attend meetings. Thus, each individual or their company needs to fund the trips and the time it takes them to develop materials for the standard. Some national standards bodies do provide nominal support for working group members, but you will need to contact the national standards body in your own country to find out what support, if any, is available.