ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Manager 3.0 english language

Syllabus:

The content corresponds to the curriculum published by the ISTQB®. Furthermore, our trainers practice with you as many hands-on scenarios as possible to help you apply the previously learned.

Syllabus:

I. Managing the Test Activities

• Test Process: Test Planning Activities, Test Monitoring and Control Activities, Test Completion Activities 
• The Context of Testing: Importance of Test Stakeholders' Knowledge, Test Management in a Hybrid Software Development Model and Test Management Activities for Various Software Development Lifecycle Models, Test Management Activities at Various Test Levels and for Different Test Types as well as Test Management Activities to Plan, Monitor and Control
• Risk-Based Testing: Testing as Risk Mitigation Activity, Identification of Quality Risks, Quality Risk Assessment, Quality Risk Mitigation Through Appropriate Testing, Techniques for Risk-Based Testing, Success Metrics and Difficulties Associated with Risk-Based Testing
• Project Test Strategy: Choosing a Test Approach, Analyzing the Organizational Test Strategy and Project Context, Definition of Test Objects 
• Improving the Test Process: The Test Improvement Process (IDEAL), Model-Based Test Process Improvement, Analytical-Based Test Process Improvement, Retrospectives
• Test Tools: Good Practices for Tool Introduction, Technical and Business Aspects for Tool Decisions, Selection Process Considerations and Return on Investment Evaluation, Tool Lifecycle, Tool Metrics

II. Managing the Product

• Test Metrics: for Test Management Activities, Monitoring, Control and Completion, Test Reporting
• Test Estimation: Estimating What Activities Testing Will Involve, Factors Which May Influence Test Effort, Selection of Test Estimation Techniques
• Defect Management: Defect Lifecycle, Cross-functional Defect Management, Specifics of Defect Management in Agile Teams, Defect Management Challenges in Hybrid Software Development, Defect Report Information, Defining Process Improvement Actions Using Defect Report Information

III. Managing the Team

• The Test Team: Typical Skills within Four Areas of Competence, Analyze Required Test Team Member Skills, Assessing Test Team Member Skills, Developing Test Team Member Skills, Management Skills Required to Manage a Test Team, Motivating or Demotivating Factors for a Test Team in Certain Situations
• Stakeholder Relationships: Cost of Quality, Cost-benefit Relationship of Testing

Target Group:

The course ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Manager 3.0 (CTAL-TM) is based on the basic course (CTFL) and is aimed at advanced participants, who already have several years of practical experience in testing. The course is suitable, on the one hand, to reinforce one's own knowledge with more in-depth theoretical knowledge and, on the other hand, to gain deeper insight into test practice. Those who will benefit the most from the training are:

• Software Developers
• Requirements Engineers
• Testers
• Test Managers
• Test Analysts
• Test Engineers
• Test Consultants
• User Acceptance Testers
• Quality Managers
• Project Managers
• Environments & Data Specialists

Prerequisites

For the participation in the training, concrete software knowledge and practical experience in IT projects are essential for a deeper understanding. To obtain the certification as "ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Manager", the basic certificate ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level is required as well as practical experience in software testing in addition to the successful final examination.

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