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The weekly update covering the week of October 12 to October 18 — a handful of improvements to help you find training, understand the site’s background, and get richer previews in search. Find a course from any term page. I have been curating a list of training providers that deliver ISTQB courses, and it is now live on the glossary. Scroll to the bottom of any term page — say /acceptance-testing/ or /bug/ — and you will see a “Learn more” section with providers that teach that syllabus area.

A quiet week, but a good one: the biggest change is for anyone who writes about software testing — and a few smaller ones for anyone who pulls the glossary into their own tools. Cite any term in one click. If you have ever copied a definition from this site into a paper, a report, or a study guide, you have probably typed out the reference by hand — author, year, title, URL, and the date you looked it up.

The weekly update covering the week of September 28 to October 4 — three things worth your attention. The topic pages went multilingual. /topics/ used to speak four languages; it now speaks fourteen. Whether you read the glossary in Korean, Japanese, Hungarian, one of the Nordic languages, or anywhere in between, the themed collections — security testing, performance testing, acceptance, mobile testing and the rest — are now available in your language, not just English.

Another week, another handful of improvements to the glossary. Here is what changed. Jump to any letter. The homepage now has a clickable A–Z bar right below the description. Tap or click a letter and the page scrolls to the first term starting with that letter. Letters that have no terms yet are shown but greyed out — so you can see at a glance which letters are missing. If you are looking for a term by name, this is much faster than scrolling through nine hundred cards.

It’s been a packed two weeks and I’m catching up on the weekly updates — here is everything that has landed since the last post. Browsing by topic, not by letter. The glossary just got a new way to navigate. Head over to /topics/ and you will find the terms grouped by theme — testing fundamentals, techniques, test management, security testing, performance testing, and more. Each topic page collects the relevant terms in one view, links every term back to its topic, and connects related topics.

This week was mostly about making the term pages more useful. New resources. Several terms gained new curated material. The exploratory testing page now links to solid articles and guides about rapid testing — this one came straight from a community suggestion, so thank you! The regression testing page got its tools section back after it went missing during an earlier cleanup, and quality gate resources landed on the page that needed them.

This was a busy week, so let me go through it topic by topic. An archive of syllabi. The site now hosts a curated archive of freely available syllabi, curricula and sample exams — from ISTQB, REQB, IREB, TMMi, UXQB, iSAQB, A4Q, DASA, OSSTMM and OWASP. If you are studying for a certification, or just want to see what a syllabus actually contains before you commit, everything is collected in one place: the archive.

It’s been a while since the last update here, and I owe you an explanation. A lot has been happening under the hood, so I’m starting short weekly updates to keep you in the loop without making you dig through git logs. This week was mostly about trust. The site now checks itself before every release: every page has to be reachable, every link has to lead somewhere real, and every old address that people may have bookmarked or shared has to keep working.

I’m happy to announce that the ISTQB-glossary.page will now feature a news section. The goal behind it is to inform you about the latests changes to the page. Please be aware that the ISTQB Syllabi are completely separate documents authored by external organisation. Any news about them can be obtained at the ISTQB webpage.