The oldest and most experienced private, independent gaming certification laboratory in the world, BMM Testlabs is an employer in Australia, Austria, Argentina, Canada, Italy, Korea, Macau, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, and the United States. Founded in 1981, BMM Testlabs is a Silver Partner in the ISTQB® Partner Program, and a strong, global advocate of education and excellence in software testing. BMM has long been involved in increasing public awareness of the importance of software quality and testing, as well as contributing to the improvement of software development and testing processes. "The NRC is very pleased to see the advanced work going on BMM Testlabs. We congratulate the company on its progressive approach. BMM Testlabs is a valuable innovator in our community." -­‐ William Langley, Technology Advisor, Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP), National Research Council of Canada (NRC) "With active participants on the CSTB Board of Directors and technical committees, as well as an ISTQB Partner, BMM Testlabs dedicates voluntary time and efforts in advocacy of education and examination as a practical means to excel in the software testing field." -­‐ Eran Barlev, CEO of SELA Canada, Founding Board Member of CSTB BMM Testlabs believes it is important to give back to the testing community to help promote education, advancement, research and innovation. Examples of this work include: • BMM team members have been involved with ISTQB in the development of the foundation level exams, agile tester syllabus and practice exam, and the test automation expert level syllabus. • In conjunction with the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada, and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), BMM Testlabs is working with two post-­‐secondary institutions on developing an innovative, best of breed test automation solution. • BMM Testlabs is working with a post-­‐secondary institution on introducing software testing and game testing into their curriculum. • BMM employees are required to undertake a difficult three-­‐year education and review program for testing and management certifications utilizing a number of external, specialist programs, including ISTQB foundation, advanced, and expert level certifications. • BMM’s “Top Gun” training program for test leadership focuses on delivering and managing testing for innovative technologies, new test automation, quality and project management expertise, including advanced methodologies based on 6 Sigma, ISO, PMP, Agile, and Test Driven Development. • BMM has a scholarship program with UNLV in Las Vegas. • BMM partners with the Macau Polytechnic in Macau, offering a full curriculum of testing courses. • Employees of BMM regularly speak at leading software testing conferences such as the iGaming boot camp, Game Developer’s Conference and STAR West. • BMM creates jobs across 13 countries for people with a passion for software testing. • BMM collaborates with other software testing companies, and gaming manufacturers to share experiences and learn from others in the industry. Innovation is at the very heart of BMM Testlabs. The company has created an innovative, patent-­‐pending service called BMM’s Enhanced Testing Program, which goes well beyond basic QA or compliance testing for the gaming industry. BMM’s Enhanced Testing Program is comprised of cutting-­‐edge processes, methodologies and tools that bring the industry these benefits: • Reducing the total costs by more than 20% of product compliance including certification costs, people costs, delay costs, opportunity costs, and the probability of failure. • Reducing time taken by 50%-­‐100% to provide certified gaming product to the market. • Improving product quality on the operator’s floor and eradicating revocations and recalls. • Improving predictable scheduling of product availability to the market. • Providing C-­‐level executives with reporting that illuminates product QA performance, time to market and costs. • Maintaining a wall between QA staff, processes & results and the Compliance Teams allows BMM to maintain regulatory integrity while providing significant benefits to clients. In addition to using industry-­‐leading test tools, BMM has created gaming specific testing tools such as: jurisdictional approval technology; compliance administration management technology; and total cost of product quality (testing). BMM Testlabs has helped to develop the first open standard to enable electronic exchange of gaming-­‐related certification of information between any two organizations, known as the GD-­‐API standard. BMM is also the first major organization to roll out a web service using the GD-­‐API, making their certification data downloadable by any client software that also implements the freely available GD-­‐API standard.