BOBS endeavors to serve Batswana through standardisation and quality assurance activities, which will bring about improved life through globally accepted standards of the environment, goods and services.

To this end BOBS provides independent testing of goods and services in order to see if they meet specifications or standards or customer's specified requirements through the Testing Unit.

What is Testing?

Testing is an activity which affects all aspects of a community, ranging from control of production, the measurement of environmental quality, assessment of health and safety, confirmation of quality of construction, compliance with laws, regulations, purchasing and other specifications. Testing supports domestic and international trade.

It is also an activity which in the broadest sense covers the service of testing, calibrating, examining, identifying, checking, or otherwise, a material, a specimen, a component, a product, a system or an event for conformity with specified standards or requirements. It is perhaps the most commonly performed type of conformity assessment - that is the process of determining that a product, process or service complies with specified requirements.