ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level – Agile Tester (CTFL-AT)

Summary

The course “ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level – Test Manager” gives you a thorough grounding in test management. You learn to plan, steer and keep track of every testing activity across the software development lifecycle. The course prepares you for the international ISTQB® certification exam and offers methods close enough to practice that you can use what you learn in your own company straight away.

Requirements:

Some knowledge of software and practical experience of IT projects helps with parts of the material, but is not required to attend. For the certificate “ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level – Extension: Agile Tester”, the base certificate “ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level” is required.

The course follows the current ISTQB® syllabus and covers, among other things:

Topics covered

The seminar teaches the official ISTQB® syllabus. Our trainers also bring as many worked examples as they can, so that putting it into practice afterwards comes easily.

The topics:

• The fundamentals of agile software development
• The principles behind agile approaches
• How testing differs between traditional and agile approaches
• Where testing stands in an agile project
• The tester's role and skills in an agile team
• Agile testing methods
• Judging quality risks in agile projects and estimating testing effort
• Techniques in agile projects
• Tools in agile projects

Learning objectives

After completing the course you will be able to …

• plan and steer test projects according to what the project requires
• identify risks systematically and shape your testing around them
• develop test strategies and keep track of how testing progresses
• lead test teams well and help their skills grow
• keep improving the test process and show what testing is worth