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Overview

ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) is the standard for international qualifications in software testing at an advanced level.

Audience

  • This course includes the cost of your Pearson Vue exam. Once you have completed your course and are ready to sit your exam please register with www.pearsonvue.com and check availability at your chosen test centre. Then please contact us and we will book your exam for you.
  • The ISTQB Advanced Level exam lasts three hours and consists of 65 scenario-based multiple-choice questions. An additional 45 minutes is allowed for candidates taking exams that are not in their native business language. No notes, study guides or books are allowed into the examination session. Candidates need to score at least 65% to pass the exam and be awarded their certificate.

Outline

  • This course, with its large number of practical exercises and practice examination questions, fully prepares delegates for the ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Manager examination. Whilst this course is focused on the syllabus, giving delegates the maximum chance of passing the examination, it also contains many real world practical examples.
  • Basic aspects of software testing
  • Review of the Certified Tester Foundation Level syllabus
  • Specific systems (application domains)
  • Testing and the software development life cycle
  • Test process
  • Stakeholders
  • Ethics
  • Risk
  • Risk management
  • Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA)
  • Test management
  • Test policy
  • Typical test strategies
  • The test strategy document
  • Master test plan
  • Level test plan
  • Test estimation
  • Scheduling test planning
  • Test monitoring, reporting and control
  • Test management issues
  • Business Value of Testing
  • Distributed, Outsourced and Insourced Testing
  • Test management issues for exploratory testing
  • Test management issues for systems of systems
  • Test management issues for safety critical systems
  • Other test management issues
  • Reviews
  • Principles of reviews
  • Types of review
  • Introducing Reviews
  • Incident management
  • Incident reports
  • When can an incident be identified
  • The incident management process or defect life cycle
  • Defect fields
  • Metrics and incident management
  • Communicating incidents
  • Standards
  • ISO Standards
  • IEEE Standards
  • BSI Standards
  • Industry specific and other standards
  • Test process improvement
  • The purpose of test process improvement
  • Testing Maturity Model (TMM)
  • Test Process Improvement (TPI)
  • CTP (Critical Testing Process)
  • STEP (Systematic Test and Evaluation Process)
  • Improving the Test Process
  • Capability Maturity Model Integration, CMMI
  • Tools
  • Test tool concepts
  • Test tools categories
  • People skills
  • Individual skills
  • Test team dynamics
  • Motivation
  • Communication

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