Who Should Attend?
- Software Testers
- Test Leads
- Test Managers
Please note that delegates are required to have passed the ISTQB Foundation certificate. It is recommended that delegates have a minimum of 3 years' testing experience before attempting this qualification.
Exam Details
A three-hour multiple choice exam. Candidates must achieve a grade of 65% to successfully pass the exam.
Objectives
- Gain an understanding of Test Management techniques and key skills, including planning, estimation, with focus on different ways to estimate timescales for testing
- Understand Risk-Based testing and experience based techniques
- Be able to develop and tailor a full documentation set for testing, including Test Policy, Strategy and Plans
- Achieve a complete understanding of reviews and how they can improve software quality at all phases of the lifecycle
- Be able to implement Test Process Improvement initiatives, in an order that provides maximum benefit to the organisation
- Understand the importance of Defect Management and how to implement workflow based defect processes, plus reporting and using statistics to measure software quality across test phases
- Obtain a good overview of the different tools available to support test management, with examples
- Have an appreciation of people skills and personalities in order to get the most out of team members
Course Content and Agenda
The course is presented in seven modules, based on the ISTQB syllabus:
- Testing Process
- Test planning, monitoring, and control
- Test analysis and design
- Test implementation and execution
- Evaluating exit criteria and reporting
- Test closure activities
- Risk-based testing
- Test documentation
- Test estimation and test metrics
- The business value of testing
- Distributed, outsourced, and insourced testing
- Managing the application of industry standards
- Management reviews and audits
- Managing reviews
- Metrics for reviews
- Managing formal reviews
- Defect Lifecycle
- Defect Report Information
- Assessing process capability with defect report information
- Test Improvement Process
- Improving the testing process with CMMi, TPI, CTP, STEP
- Tool Selection
- Tool Lifecycle
- Tool Metrics
- Individual skills
- Test team dynamics
- Fitting testing within an organisation
- Motivation
- Communication
