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Tilo Linz, currently Chairman of the German Testing Board and ASQF Vice President, has now also been chosen as Chairman of the new "International Software Testing Qualifications Board" (ISTQB).

At the initiative of ist professional partners,the Federal German government established the APO Project in 1999 as a dedicated training program for professional career development in the IT field. Since September 2002 imbus has been participating as a representative of industry in the APO* Project.

Andreas Spillner/Tilo Linz

In the new training program "ASQF®-Certified-Tester" imbus AG is the first German training company authorized to instruct the Foundation Level. The training's contents and qualification have been brought into line with existing European standards.

Software is everywhere. Our lives are increasingly dependent on the reliability and functioning of software-driven systems, such as in medical equipment. Professional software testing is thus a crucial task which requires qualified training.

Up to now lectures on software testing could not be found in the curriculum of the University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Specialized in software testing, the imbus AG suggested to pick up this important subject. Thus personal contacts can be consolidated and imbus benefits from a fresh impetus for own research work.

During a small ceremony, imbus officially opened the software-QA training centre. During the opening speech Mr. Eberhard Binder, Hewlett Packard GmbH, has referred to the near 2-year success-story of the co-operation between the two companies. Apart from the chance to visit the imbus <a href="http://www.imbus.de/english/software-testing-services/test-centre/ on this special occasion, our guests were able to win the free...