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The Canadian Software Testing Board offers the ISTQB Agile Tester Extension certification. Candidates can register for the Agile Tester Extension certification exams by visiting www.cstb.ca. 

The certification for the Agile Tester Extension is designed for professionals who are working within agile development environments. It is also for professionals who are planning to start implementing Agile methods in the near future, or are working within companies that plan to do so. The certification provides an advantage for those who would like to know the required agile activities, roles, methods, and methodologies specific to their role.

In order to register for the Agile Tester Extension exam, the candidate must first obtain a Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) certification.

A candidate wishing to take a Foundation Level exam and Agile Tester Extension exam can go to the Canadian Software Testing Board’s website at http://cstb.ca/exams and register for an exam and write the exam on a date and time that is convenient.

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For more information about the CSTB, please visit http://www.cstb.ca, email cstb@cstb.ca or call 1(866)656-6603. 

Principles behind agile methods — The Agile Manifesto

Agile methods are a family of development processes, not a single approach to software development. In 2001, 17 prominent figures in the field of agile development (then called "light-weight methodologies") came together at the Snowbird ski resort in Utah to discuss ways of creating software in a lighter, faster, more people-centric way. They created the Agile Manifesto, widely regarded as the canonical definition of agile development, and accompanying agile principles.

Some of the principles behind the Agile Manifesto are

• Customer satisfaction by rapid, continuous delivery of useful software
• Working software is delivered frequently (weeks rather than months)
• Working software is the principal measure of progress
• Even late changes in requirements are welcomed
• Close, daily cooperation between business people and developers
• Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication
• Projects are built around motivated individuals, who should be trusted
• Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design
• Simplicity
• Self-organizing teams
• Regular adaptation to changing circumstances

The publishing of the manifesto spawned a movement in the software industry known as agile software development.