Model-Based Testing Essentials - Guide to the ISTQB Certified Model-Based Tester

FOREWORD BY GUALTIERO BAZZANA

When I was asked by my dear friend Bruno Legeard to provide a foreword to the “Model-Based Testing Essentials” book that he was authoring together with Anne Kramer, I was very pleased because this was a sort of flashback that reminded me of when I was younger, so much younger than today, and was preparing my PhD dissertation, which was based on automatic test generation for telecommunication systems based on SADT and SDL models further transformed into Petri Nets.

This is just a small witness of the fact that the concept of model-based testing (MBT) has been in existence for many years; nowadays methods, techniques, and tools have matured to a point at which MBT is ready for widespread adoption in many domains, starting from the ones that have historically taken advantage of such approach (e.g., aerospace, railway and telecommunications) to others, such as automotive, in which systematic structured testing techniques have been more and more applied in the last years and MBT has quickly become a de facto standard.

In my capacity of ISTQB® President, I am very happy to welcome this book that will greatly help professionals in taking the exam for ISTQB® Model-Based Tester certification; as a matter of fact, ISTQB® has approved for general market availability in October 2015 the Model-Based Tester syllabus, which is available for free download from our website (www.istqb.org) and that is the basis around which this book has been prepared, constituting ...