Pith Number

pith:USA5RM7T

pith:2026:USA5RM7TSPUYRIM53PJJIU33M7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

ISTQB Certifications Under the Lens: Their Contributions to the Software-Testing Profession; and AI-assisted Synthesis of Practitioners' Endorsements and Criticisms

Alper Bu\u{g}ra Kele\c{s}, Sevde De\u{g}irmenci, Vahid Garousi

arxiv:2603.14572 v2 · 2026-03-15 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{USA5RM7TSPUYRIM53PJJIU33M7}

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-26T01:15:18.321085Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a481d8b3f393e988a19ddbd294537b67dbd99130d02c9a175b08fbb7d9b3d89d

Aliases

arxiv: 2603.14572 · arxiv_version: 2603.14572v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.14572 · pith_short_12: USA5RM7TSPUY · pith_short_16: USA5RM7TSPUYRIM5 · pith_short_8: USA5RM7T

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/USA5RM7TSPUYRIM53PJJIU33M7 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: a481d8b3f393e988a19ddbd294537b67dbd99130d02c9a175b08fbb7d9b3d89d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "95055c632bdb7333dde70bfc7c3d79590f6749890e7b814fd52302dfdc36be7a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-15T19:51:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0c0722d68eb9a1bd379c81c91d53390b4c07990d3c1e4c4b2d48263e4cb8c1c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2603.14572",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}