In the past 18 months more than 40,000 people worldwide have taken the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Foundations Level exam, 10,000 alone in the last 4 months. The ISTQB has developed, universally acceptable international, professional qualification scheme aimed at testing software and systems, and has created a syllabus and tests for the "Certified Tester". With a writer who is one of the founders of ISTQB, this, increases are updated, new 2nd edition edited include "Foundations Level" (ie, entry-level), and teaches the most important methods of software testing.