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# I'm a Bug Advocate
- URL: https://www.kenst.com/im-a-bug-advocate/
- Published: 2013-07-31T20:53:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-06-10T00:57:37.000Z
- Author: Chris Kenst
- Tags: BBST, Portfolio, Terminology, Testing

I do advocate for bugs to be fixed but the title comes from passing the [Association for Software Testing](http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/?ref=kenst.com)‘s (AST) Black Box Software Testing (BBST) Bug Advocacy course. The class officially ended in mid-July and it marks the third and final BBST class for me. Together [Foundations](http://testingeducation.org/BBST/foundations/?ref=kenst.com), [Bug Advocacy](http://testingeducation.org/BBST/bugadvocacy/?ref=kenst.com) and [Survey of Test Design](http://testingeducation.org/BBST/testdesign/?ref=kenst.com) make up a semester long class that [Cem Kaner](http://www.kaner.com/?ref=kenst.com) teaches at [Florida Institute of Technology](http://www.fit.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.php?value=135&ref=kenst.com) called Software Testing 1\. These lectures and classes are, as far as I know, the only college level software testing courses available to anyone that wants to learn about testing – the material is [free](http://testingeducation.org/BBST/?ref=kenst.com) and the courses are pretty inexpensive.

As with the prior classes I agreed to have my name listed on AST’s [graduates](http://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/training/graduates/?ref=kenst.com) website and for fun my certificate of completion is below:

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/64/2d/642d9fac-06bc-48ce-a22c-14219bd777e6/content/images/wordpress/2013/07/Bug-Advocacy-completion.jpg)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/64/2d/642d9fac-06bc-48ce-a22c-14219bd777e6/content/images/wordpress/2013/07/Bug-Advocacy-completion.jpg?ref=kenst.com)

Despite this being the final BBST class my journey with BBST doesn’t end here. I enrolled in the Instructor class for November at the beginning of the year when I enrolled in Test Design. I figured the best way to become more familiar with the material and reinforce what I do know (challenge what I don’t know) is to try to teach it. Worked for Scuba Diving!