This is the first of a set of articles on Assessment Objectives.

My primary objective in restarting my blog was to support the Open Certification Project for Software Testing by providing ideas on how we can go about developing it and a public space for discussion of those (and alternative) ideas. This set introduces learning taxonomies as a lens to focus our discussion of the level of knowledge we are actually testing in a certification assessment (such as an exam).

Most software testing techniques were first developed in the 1970’s, when “large� programs were tiny compared to today.
Programmer productivity has grown dramatically over the years, a result of paradigmatic shifts in software development practice. Testing practice has evolved less dramatically and our productivity has grown less spectacularly. This divergence in productivity has profound implications—every year, [...]