This Advanced Level course builds on the knowledge and skills acquired at the Foundation Level.
Set up
In this course, you will learn how to manage a testing project by implementing the mission, goals, and testing processes established for your organization
Learning Objectives
Major skills acquired through this course are:
- Organize and lead risk identification and risk analysis sessions and use the results of these sessions for test estimation, planning, monitoring, and control.
- Propose a business case, outlining the costs and benefits expected, for test activities.
- Create and implement test plans consistent with your organization’s test policies and test strategies
- Ensure proper communication within the test team and with other project stakeholders and to participate in and lead test process improvement initiatives.
- Identify skills and resource gaps in your test team, be able to participate in sourcing adequate resources and identify and plan skills development within your team.
Course Outline
- Testing Process
- Test Planning, Monitoring, and Control
- Test Planning
- Test Monitoring and Control
- Test Analysis
- Test Design
- Test Implementation
- Test Execution
- Evaluating Exit Criteria and Reporting
- Test Closure Activities
- Test Management in Context
- Understanding Testing Stakeholders
- Lifecycle Activities and Work Products
- Alignment of Test Activities with Other Lifecycle Activities
- Managing Non-Functional Testing
- Managing Experience-Based Testing
- Risk-Based Testing and Other Approaches
- Risk-Based Testing
- Risk-Based Testing Technique
- Other Techniques for Test Selection
- Test Prioritisation and Effort Allocation in the Test Process
- Test Documentation and Other Work Products
- Test Policy
- Test Strategy
- Master Test Plan
- Level Test Plan
- Project Risk Management
- Other Test Work Products
- Test Estimation
- Defining and Using Test Metrics
- Business Value of Testing
- Distributed, Outsourced, and Insourced Testing
- Managing the Application of Industry Standards
- Reviews
- Management Reviews and Audits
- Managing Reviews
- Metrics for Reviews
- Managing Formal Reviews
- Defect Management
- The Defect Lifecycle and the Software Development Lifecycle
- Defect Report Information
- Assessing Process Capability with Defect Reporting Information
- Improving the Testing Process
- Test Improvement Process
- Improving the Testing Process
- Improving the Testing Process with TMMi
- Improving the Testing Process with TPI Next
- Improving the Testing Process with CTP
- Improving the Testing Process with STEP
- Test Tools and Automation
- Tool Selection
- Tool Lifecycle
- Tool Metrics
- People Skills - Team Composition
- Individual Skills
- Test Team Dynamics
- Fitting Testing Within an Organisation
- Motivation
- Communication
Target Audience
Software Developers and Analysts
Exam
Prerequisites for taking this exam:
- Hold the ISTQB Software Testing Foundation Certificate
- Satisfy the board which examines them that they have sufficient practical experience to be considered Advanced Level qualified.
