ISTQB - CERTIFIED TESTER

• Manage a Test Team, set up test methods and processes, manage Test Projects, calculate the ROI on a test project.
• Defining the overall Test objectives and the strategy for the systems to be tested
• Plan, order and follow tasks
• Describe and organize the necessary activities
• Select, acquire and allocate appropriate resources to tasks
• Select, organize and lead Test Teams
• Organize communication ... etc

• Certificating methodological training
• Certification Examination on Last Day
• Duration of examination: 3h

Introduction to the Syllabus for the Test Project Manager

• Reminder of the content of the ISTQB Foundation Level training
• Basic principles of Software Testing, including
  • Tests within The Software Life Cycle (V cycle, iterative, RAD, RUP, Agiles)
  • Tests of Complex Systems and Critical Systems, Measurements and Metrics

Testing Process

• Planning and Control (impact of strategies on planning, dependencies and deliverables)
• Analysis
• Design
• Implementation and execution of tests
• Monitoring
• Progress Reporting
• Closing activities of the test campaigns (feedback, backup and archiving, ...)

Test Management

• Estimation of Test Loads, Planning of Tests, Monitoring & Control of the progress of Tests
• Outsourcing, Offshore, Subcontracting, MOE and MOA
• Risk-based Tests

Reviews

• Benefits of Reviews (journals) compared to Dynamic Tests and other Static Testing techniques
• Compare the different types of reviews and show their relative strengths and weaknesses as well as their fields of use.
• Piloting a Review Team for a formal review, following the identified steps
• To put in place a Review Plan that is an integral part of a test / quality plan for a project
• Success Factors for Reviews (Journals)

Incident Management

• Incident Management standards (IEEE 1044), The Life Cycle of Faults
• Metrics and measurements
• Analyze Defects Reports created over time and update the taxonomy of defects

Standards and Improvement of Testing Processes

• Test Standards
• Draft and Test an improvement plan using the generic steps involving the right people
• Evaluation and improvement of testing processes, use of CMMI, TMM, …

Testing and Automation Tools

• Test Tool concepts
• Categories of Tools
• Probe Effects and Analysis of results produced by Tools
• Selection and introduction of Tools within the company: understanding the different phases of the implementation of a Test Tool

Individual Skills and Team Training

• Individual skills, group dynamics, motivation and demotivation
• Different Testing organizations within the company
• Positioning of Tests within an organization, internal and external communications

References