IV&V Software Testing as a Measure of Digital and Entrepreneurship Competence towards Quality Education of Skills for Future Work

For the Sustainable Development Goal measure of Quality Education, the 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report by UNESCO highlighted that there are a limited set of measures to monitor digital literacy skills as compared to financial literacy skills. Furthermore, the United Nation's International Telecommunication Union report shows that across countries, digital skills such as programming skills remains unpopular. Understanding this challenge, the researchers from MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia propose that Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V) Software Testing skill be measured by UNESCO as it is a natural progression in terms of skills enhancements towards programming skills. In partnership with the Ministry of Entrepreneur Development, MIMOS Berhad designed a practical oriented fundamental IV&V Software Testing syllabus for Malaysian working in Small and Medium Enterprise and conducted a training. As a measure of digital literacy skills, a statistically significant improvement from 48.26% to 73.43% average score in IV&V Software Testing skills was observed. By employing a Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Signed-Rank Test, results revealed that the null hypothesis of “no statistically significant differences between SME worker's digital knowledge level in terms of IV&V Software Testing examination score” can be rejected , Z= -5.449, p <; 0.05. Moving forward, an intermediate and advanced level course in software automation testing may be conducted.