This specification provides the requirements for qualification of welding procedure specifications, welders, and welding operators for manual, semiautomatic, mechanized, and automatic welding. The welding processes included areelectrogas welding,electron beam welding,electroslag welding,flux cored arc welding,gas metal arc welding,gas tungsten arc welding,laser beam welding,oxyfuel gas welding,plasma arc welding,shielded metal arc welding,stud arc welding, andsubmerged arc welding.Base metals, filler metals, qualification variables, welding designs, and testiang requirements are also included.