Software Tester Certification Boot Camp (STCERT)

About this Course

This software testing certification training course you will have the opportunity to take the ISTQB™ Certified Tester – Foundation Level exam. The exam is held on the third day of the course. The ISTQB™ Certified Tester – Foundation Level certification exam is independently administered by the American Software Testing Qualifications Board, Inc. (ASTQB).

Audience Profile

The Software Testing Certification Boot Camp—Foundation Level training course is most appropriate for:

• Testers and Test Engineers
• QA Testers and Managers
• Test Leads
• Test Managers
• Business Analysts
• Developers
• Development Managers
• Project Managers
• Anyone that wants a better understanding of basic testing concepts.

At Course Completion

Upon course completion, students will be able to:

Course Outline

I. Course and exam overview

• ISTQB and ASTQB overview
• Exam format
• Study and exam taking tips
• Course flow and agenda topics
• Outline of the daily schedule (varies on day 3)
• Explanation of supplementary material

II. Fundamentals of testing

• Testing overview and key terminology
• Common testing principles
• Basic test process
• Psychology of testing
• Code of ethics
  1. Interactive Session: Testing missions and test objectives
  2. Pop Quiz: Seven testing principles
  3. Interactive Session: Context drivers for testing

III. Testing throughout the software life cycle

• Software development models
• Test levels and test types
• Maintenance testing
  1. Interactive Session: Understanding test impacts of software development models
  2. Interactive Session: Illustrating verification and validation for better understanding
  3. Interactive Session: Linking test levels with entry and exit criteria
  4. Interactive Session: Compare and contrast black box and white box testing
  5. Interactive Session: Understanding goals, targets, and issues within test levels
  6. Interactive Session: Compare and contrast test types using examples

IV. Test management

• Test organization
• Planning and estimation
• Progress monitoring and control
• Configuration management
• Risk and testing
  1. Incident management
  2. Pop Quiz: Understanding project constraints
  3. Pop Quiz: Test team organizational structures
  4. Pop Quiz: Driving more accurate test estimates
  5. Pop Quiz: Choosing a test approach
  6. Interactive Session and Pop Quiz: Performing risk assessment
  7. Pop Quiz: Identifying incidents
  8. Hands-on Exercise: Write an incident report
  9. Hands-on Exercise: Perform a review session
  10. Interactive Session: Developing oracles

V. Test design techniques

• The test development process
• Specification-based techniques
• Structure-based techniques
• Experience-based techniques
• Selecting test techniques
  1. Pop Quiz: Using specification-based techniques
  2. Interactive Session: Review tests designed with equivalence partitioning
  3. Hands-on Exercise: Use equivalence partitioning as a test design method
  4. Hands-on Exercise: Use boundary value analysis to create tests
  5. Interactive Session: Analyze and map out complex logic in requirements
  6. Hands-on Exercise: Use a decision table to develop tests
  7. Interactive Session: Walk through a state model
  8. Hands-on Exercise: Use a state model to build tests
  9. Pop Quiz: Use case basics
  10. Interactive Session: Generate tests from use cases
  11. Interactive Session: Analyze code flow with control flow diagrams
  12. Hands-on Exercise: Develop structural tests for code and analyze coverage
  13. Pop Quiz: Differentiate experience-based techniques
  14. Pop Quiz: Choose a test technique

VI. Static techniques

• Static testing techniques
• The review process
• Static analysis by tools
  1. Review test sets to evaluate test design*
  2. Perform a peer review and feedback session
  3. (these practice sessions are embedded elsewhere to perform reviews on real targets)

VII. Tool support for testing

• Types of tools
• Effective use of tools
• Introducing tools into an organization
  1. Pop Quiz: Test frameworks
  2. Pop Quiz: Understanding probe effect
  3. Pop Quiz: Pros and cons of tools
  4. Pop Quiz: Piloting a tool

VIII. Course wrap-up

• Exam tips, procedures, and guidelines
• Exam cram
  1. Open review session
  2. Practice exam review

At the conclusion of the software testing training course you will have the opportunity to take the ISTQB™ Certified Tester —Foundation Level exam. The exam is held at 3:30 p.m. on the third day of the course. The ISTQB™ Certified Tester —Foundation Level certification exam is independently administered by the American Software Testing Qualifications Board, Inc. (ASTQB).