Who Should Attend?
- Software Testers / Analysts
- Senior Testers looking for Formal Training / certification on test case design
- Test Leads / Managers
Delegates should have a minimum of 3 years of testing experience before attempting this qualification.
Exam Details
A three-hour multiple choice exam, taken at a Pearson Vue centre. Candidates must achieve a grade of 65% to successfully pass the exam.
*Affiliated with TSG to deliver this course.
Objectives
- Become able to provide meaningful advice on planning decisions
- Obtain skills in requirements analysis to inform the test design process
- Gain an in-depth understanding of a wide range of formal test design techniques
- Understand the use of test automation tools in the test analysis function
- Be able to participate in peer reviews
Select a date
Please note: this course runs on demand so the price is TBC. It can be arranged to run on-site at your offices as Training for Teams or as a public course if there is sufficient interest.
Please contact us for more details.
Course Content and Agenda
The course is presented in 14 modules, based on the ISTQB syllabus:
- The fundamental test process
- Test planning, monitoring, and control
- Test analysis
- Test design
- Test implementation
- Test execution
- Evaluating exit criteria and reporting
- Test closure activities
- Test progress monitoring and control
- Distributed, outsourced and insourced testing
- The Test Analyst’s tasks in risk-based testing
- Designing tests & test cases
- Test modelling techniques
- Covering test models
- Partition testing
- Boundary testing
- Domain testing
- Decision tables
- Cause-effect graphing
- Classification tree method
- Combinatorial (Arithmetic) testing techniques
- State transition testing
- Use case testing
- User story testing
- Combining test techniques
- Error guessing
- Checklist-based testing
- Exploratory testing
- “Defect-Based” testing
- Anomaly taxonomies (or “defect taxonomies”)
- Applying the best technique
- Functional quality testing
- Accuracy, suitability, interoperability, and compliance with standards and regulations
- Usability and accessibility testing
- Understandability, learnability, operability, attractiveness, and compliance with standards and regulations
- Introductory review of formal review processes
- Using checklists in reviews
- Phase containment of defects
- Incident report fields
- Incident (& defect) classification
- Root cause analysis
- Test tools and automation
- Automated test execution
- Keyword-driven scripting
- How Test Analysts can contribute to preventing failure