COURSE ISTQB ADVANCED - TEST MANAGER
Compliance to Business - Methods
Goals: Beyond obtaining the advanced certification, Test Managers will be able to:
- Define the overall test objectives and strategy for the systems to be tested
- Organize and manage the testing process in the different development life cycles
- Plan, track tasks and organize reporting and communication
- Select, acquire and allocate appropriate resources to tasks
- Organize communication between test team members
- Justify decisions and provide reporting information
Profile targeted
- Project Manager
- Experienced practitioner of the testing business
Mandatory Requirements
ISTQB Foundation Certified Tester
Experience in testing or project management
ISTQB certification
Introduction
1. Testing process
- Planning, monitoring and control of tests
- Test design, implementation, execution & analysis
- Evaluation of exit criteria and reporting
- Test closure activities
2. Test management
- Test management in practice
- Risk-based testing / test prioritization
- Documentation of tests and other deliverables
- Test estimation
- Definition and use of test metrics
- Financial value of the test
- Distributed, outsourced and in-house testing
- Manage the application of industry standards
3. Reviews
- Management reviews and audits
- Manage reviews
- Metrics for reviews
- Manage formal reviews
4. Anomaly Management
- Anomaly life cycle and software development
- Data from an anomaly report
- Evaluate the effectiveness of a process with anomaly report information
5. Improve the testing process
- Test improvement process
- Improve the test process with TMMi, TPI Next, CTP, STEP
6. Testing tools & automation
- Selecting a tool
- Life cycle of a tool
- Metrics on tools
7. Team composition (skills)
- Individual skills
- Dynamics of the Test Team
- Introducing the Test into an organization
- Motivation
- Communication
8. Revisions
- Various questions & clarifications
- Revision of the CFTL Syllabus and Glossary
- Group response to the training questionnaire
Teaching methods
- Theory
- Case studies
- Feedback
- Multiple-choice questionnaire
Terms of evaluation
- Multiple-choice questionnaire
- 3h exam