Date: April, 25 2013
To: ISTQB BOD
Cc: ISTQB Governance Working Group
Subject: Open Letter to the ISTQB
To whom it may concern;
Recently a discussion transpired over Twitter regarding the validity and governance of the Foundation level exam you offer through your training partners. Rex Black, a current board member and past president of the ISTQB, was involved in the exchanges and made the following comments in response to my queries about whether there have there ever been problems with the certifications validity, specifically the reliability coefficient: