SOFTECAsia

SOFTECAsia SQA Without Boundaries. The 17th edition of Southeast Asia's leading software testing conference. 12–15 September 2026 | KL Convention Centre, Malaysia.

Organised by MSTB. softecasia.org About SoftecAsia:
MSTB has been organising SOFTECAsia annually since 2008 as national-level event in Malaysia. By intent, the conference features a wealth of international speakers who are well-known in the global arena of software testing. Today, SOFTECAsia has grown to become premier software testing event in the Asian region through support from software profes

sionals in Malaysia and other Asian countries. In 2013, the event went regional with SOFTECAsia 2013. It was a natural expansion of geographical coverage for the conference. SOFTECAsia 2023:
Digital Transformation, accelerated by the recent COVID-19 pandemic, continues to reshape how businesses operate. It prescribes that technologies be incorporated across organisations to drive fundamental changes in corporate strategies. The advent of advanced technology applications such as Internet of Thing (IoT), Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents new ways of doings things and new business opportunities. Simultaneously it increases the complexity and sophistication of support systems for corporate strategy development and decision-making processes. Indeed software-enabled solutions are fast becoming a crucial element in corporate transformation and, to a certain extent, governance. Consequently, risks associated with software quality have now become the responsibility of the corporate level. Reliance on poor quality software-enabled systems may result in failure of the transformation programmes, misdirected strategies, or misaligned ex*****on of strategic plans. MSTB thus strongly advocates that organisations incorporate Software Quality Assurance (SQA) in their Digital Transformation programmes from the onset. Based on this perspective, “SQA-Driven Transformation” is chosen as the theme for SOFTECAsia 2023, the 14th edition of Asia’s premier conference on SQA and software testing.

Happy Wesak Day to our Buddhist members, partners, and friends.May the full moon of Vesakha bring stillness, clarity, an...
01/06/2026

Happy Wesak Day to our Buddhist members, partners, and friends.

May the full moon of Vesakha bring stillness, clarity, and renewed purpose to your week ahead.
From all of us at MSTB.

Selamat Hari Raya Aidiladha to our Muslim members, partners, and friends.May this blessed day bring peace to your homes ...
27/05/2026

Selamat Hari Raya Aidiladha to our Muslim members, partners, and friends.

May this blessed day bring peace to your homes and warmth to every gathering you keep. From all of us at MSTB.

📅 Mark your calendar: SOFTECAsia 2026, 12–15 September at Impiana Hotel KLCC + Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.Theme: SQA...
25/05/2026

📅 Mark your calendar: SOFTECAsia 2026, 12–15 September at Impiana Hotel KLCC + Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.

Theme: SQA Without Boundaries.

Four days of pre-conference training, main conference keynotes, deep-dive tutorials, an industry panel, and the TDC University Prize Giving.

🎟️ Early Bird Conference Pass at RM 2,850 (before 30 June). Full Experience Pass at RM 6,350. All before 8% SST.

Register at softecasia.org.

Organised by MSTB · Supporting Organisation: CyberSecurity Malaysia · Community Partner: Synapse QA.

A quiet morning and an equally focused afternoon at the MSTB office on 14 May. Candidates sat for the paper-based ISTQB ...
25/05/2026

A quiet morning and an equally focused afternoon at the MSTB office on 14 May. Candidates sat for the paper-based ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level exam.

Two sessions. Many futures.

To everyone who sat with us that day: results will reach you on the standard ISTQB notification cycle. We're rooting for you. 🤝

Next paper-based sitting? Watch this space, or check mstb.org for online options.

The CTFL is where most testing careers begin. For too many, it’s also where they end.ISTQB® Advanced Level was designed ...
15/05/2026

The CTFL is where most testing careers begin. For too many, it’s also where they end.

ISTQB® Advanced Level was designed for what comes next — the moment “tester” becomes too small a word, and you start to specialise. Lead the function. Design the tests that matter. Go technical. Build the automation machinery beneath it all. Or test inside the team, not after it.

Five modules. Five distinct paths.

→ CTAL-TM — Test Manager. For those shaping strategy, risk, and the testing organisation.

→ CTAL-TA — Test Analyst. For those translating user expectations into test cases that validate behaviour and value.

→ CTAL-TTA — Technical Test Analyst. For those working closer to the code, where reliability and architecture are the brief.

→ CTAL-TAE — Test Automation Engineer. For those designing automation architecture and embedding it into CI/CD.

→ CTAL-AT — Agile Tester (newly elevated by ISTQB in May 2026, v2.0). For those whose testing lives inside the sprint, embedded with the team.

All five modules are administered in Malaysia by the Malaysian Software Testing Board. CTFL is the prerequisite. Each exam is RM 1,050 (before 8% SST).

Swipe through to see where each path leads.
Examination scheme and registration → https://mstb.org/examination-scheme/

One week remaining for TDC registration | Registration closes Friday, 15 May 2026. Most computer science graduates have ...
08/05/2026

One week remaining for TDC registration | Registration closes Friday, 15 May 2026.

Most computer science graduates have never tested a real production system. They’ve written test cases for examples, sure. But a live black-box, with no SRS, judged by people who do this for a living? That’s TDC 2.0.

For lecturers: if your university hasn’t entered a team yet, this is the week. For students: ask your lecturer to register one.

→ RM 648 per team — SST inclusive (4–5 students + 1 supervising lecturer)

→ Open to any Malaysian university

→ Prize-giving at SOFTECAsia 2026 · 14 September

Registration link is pinned in the first comment below.

Two more speakers confirmed for SOFTECAsia 2026, and both are veterans returning to the SOFTECAsia stage.Joining us at K...
06/05/2026

Two more speakers confirmed for SOFTECAsia 2026, and both are veterans returning to the SOFTECAsia stage.

Joining us at KLCC on 12–15 September under the theme SQA Without Boundaries:

Lalitkumar Bhamare | EMEA Lead for Quality Engineering Thought Leadership at Accenture Song and CEO of Tea-time with Testers. Creator of the QCSD (Quality Conscious Software Delivery) framework and PractiTest's Emerging QA Leader of the Year 2025. Last with us in 2024.

Pricilla Bilavendran | Team Leader at Billennium IT Services Malaysia and one of Agile Testing Days' "100 Women in Tech to Follow and Learn From." Fifteen years spanning functional, EDI, ETL, automation, and API testing, and a long-standing advocate for diversity in QA. Last with us in 2023.

More speakers coming soon.

🎟 Early-bird Conference Pass: RM 2,850 (before 30 June) 📋 Group and Full Experience passes also available Register your interest → https://mstb.org/register-2026/

MSTB's Test Design Competition is back — and it's been completely redesigned.TDC 2.0 challenges university teams to test...
30/04/2026

MSTB's Test Design Competition is back — and it's been completely redesigned.

TDC 2.0 challenges university teams to test a real-world IT system running in production, with poor or no Software Requirements Specification. No hand-holding. Teams must analyse, strategise, design, implement, and automate their testing approach from scratch.

What's new in Version 2.0:
— Practice Requirements Engineering
— Adopt & Integrate Technologies using real tools
— Define Organization & Processes (DevOps, Agile)
— Develop Hard & Soft Skills (critical thinking, innovation, presentation)

How it works:
On Campus Challenge (Jun–Aug):
Part 1 — Strategize, Analyze & Design: develop SQA strategy, test analysis & design, plan test implementation and select test tools.
Part 2 — Execute The Automation Test: implement and execute the test using tools selected.
Online submission deadline: 21 Aug.
Over-the-Weekend Challenge (22–23 Aug, Klang Valley):
Teams present and defend their work products and test outcomes to a panel of industry practitioner judges, followed by a knowledge sharing session.

Who can participate:
— Teams from any Malaysian university
— 1 lecturer + 4–5 undergraduate students per team
— Max 1 international student per team
— Multiple teams per university (subject to approval)

Prizes:
Champion: RM 3,000 + Plaque
Runner Up 1: RM 1,000
Runner Up 2: RM 1,000
Prize-giving at SOFTECAsia 2026, 14 September.

Registration: 1–15 May 2026
Fee: RM 648 per team (inclusive of SST)
In strategic partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education.
Register at https://mstb.org/tdc-2026/
Questions? Email [email protected]

Salam Nuzul QuranToday marks Nuzul Quran, a day of reflection and gratitude observed across Malaysia. To our Muslim coll...
29/04/2026

Salam Nuzul Quran

Today marks Nuzul Quran, a day of reflection and gratitude observed across Malaysia. To our Muslim colleagues and friends — may this occasion bring peace and blessings to you and your loved ones.

To our entire community — wishing you a peaceful weekend.

For years, these were separate strategies. Shift-left said: test earlier, catch defects before they compound. Shift-righ...
22/04/2026

For years, these were separate strategies. Shift-left said: test earlier, catch defects before they compound. Shift-right said: test in production, because some failures only surface under real conditions. Both made sense on their own.

Then they converged — and the test phase disappeared into the pipeline. Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery, has been saying this for over a decade: "If you have a separate test phase, you're doing it wrong. Testing is not a phase. It's a continuous activity." The data backs him up. The 2025 World Quality Report found that 67% of DevOps teams now practise shift-left testing. Elite performers deploy multiple times per day with lead times in minutes. When your feedback loop compresses that far, the distinction between "building" and "verifying" stops meaning anything.

And then July 2024 happened. CrowdStrike. 8.5 million systems down — not from a software bug, but from a quality failure in the update pipeline itself. It wasn't a testing problem in any traditional sense. It was a process boundary that nobody was watching.

That incident didn't just expose a gap. It redrew the map.
So shift-left met shift-right. Now what? Now testing doesn't have a phase. It has the whole pipeline. And the people working in it need to rethink not just their workflows, but something harder.
Their roles. Their titles. Their identity.
That's where this goes next.

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Lot 1-G, Jalan Kenari 13a, Bandar Puchong Jaya
Puchong
47170

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 18:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 18:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 18:00
Thursday 09:00 - 18:00
Friday 09:00 - 18:00

Website

http://www.softecasia.org/

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