Course : ISTQB® Foundation level, Agile Tester (CTFL-AT): Certification

ISTQB® Foundation level, Agile Tester (CTFL-AT): Certification

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This course will enable you to understand the role of a tester and to implement the fundamentals of software testing in an Agile project. You'll learn the specific features of testing and how to select and apply the right tools and methods for your project.

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Practical course in person or remote class

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Price : 1970 € E.T.

2d - 14h00

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Teaching objectives

At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:

Be efficient in activities related to testing an Agile project by working with the team.
Adapting testing fundamentals to an Agile project.
Selecting and applying the right tools and methods for the project.
Helping the team as a whole conduct effective tests.

Intended audience

Testers or test managers with experience in traditional development lifecycles, developers with little experience testing in an Agile project, business testers, quality engineers.

Prerequisites

Have earned ISTQB® Foundation Level Certified Tester certification.

Course schedule

Fundamentals of Agile software development

Agile software development and the Agile manifesto.
The integrated approach.
Notion of early and frequent feedback.

Exercise

- Understanding the Agile Manifesto. Putting together an integrated team and making it work.

Characteristics of Agile approaches

Approaches of Agile software development
Collaborative User Story creation.
Retrospectives.
Continuous integration.
Version and iteration schedule.

Exercise

MCQ preparation for the test. Optimizing retrospectives. Building an iteration schedule and a release schedule.

Differences between traditional testing and Agile approaches

Testing and development activities.
Project activity products.
Testing levels.
Test management and configuration management tools.

Exercise

Planning test activities in an Agile project. Tester-developer or developer-tester?

Status of testing in Agile projects

Communicating test statuses, progress, and product quality.
Managing risks of regression by improving manual and automated test cases.

Exercise

MCQ: Questions about principles, practices and fundamental practices of Agile.

Roles and skills of a tester in an Agile team

Skills of an Agile tester.
The role of a tester in an Agile team.

Role-playing

Tester headset on an Agile project.

Methods, techniques and tools for Agile testing

Test-driven development.
The test pyramid.
Test quadrants, test levels, and test types.
The role of a tester.
Product quality risk assessment and estimating test effort.
Techniques in Agile projects.
Tools in Agile projects.

Role-playing

Being a tester in a Scrum team. Identifying and handling product risks. Test reporting and analysis.

ISTQ® certification exam

40-question MCQ. 60-minute duration.
Taking the exam.

Certification

This course ends with taking the ISTQB certification exam.

Practical details

Teaching methods;

This course relies on a combination of hands-on exercises and instruction in fundamental methods and concepts.

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