ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level Agile Technical Tester (CTAL-ATT)

Target group

The Advanced Level Agile Technical Tester certification is aimed at professionals who wish to further develop their expertise in technical testing aspects in an agile context. The modules offered at the Advanced Level cover a wide range of testing topics.

Course structure

1 Requirements Engineering

1.1 Requirements Engineering Techniques

1.1.1 Analyze user stories and epics using requirements engineering techniques

1.1.2 Identifying acceptance criteria using requirements engineering and test techniques

2 Testing in Agile

2.1 Agile software engineering and Test Techniques

2.1.1 Test-driven development (TDD)

2.1.2 Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

2.1.3 Acceptance test-driven development (ATDD)

2.2 Experience-based testing in Agile

2.2.1 Combining experience-based techniques and black-box tests

2.2.2 Creating test charters and interpreting their results

2.3 Aspect of Code Quality

2.3.1 Refactoring

2.3.2 Code reviews and static code analysis to identify defects and technical debt

3 Test Automation

3.1 Test Automation Techniques

3.1.1 Data-Driven Testing

3.1.2 Keyword-Driven Testing

3.1.3 Applying Test Automation to a Given Test Approach

3.2 Level of Automation

3.2.1 Understand the level of test automation needed

4 Deployment and Delivery

4.1 Continuous Integration, continuous testing and continuous delivery

4.1.1 Continuous integration and its impact on testing

4.1.2 The role of continuous testing in continuous delivery and deployment (CD)

4.2 Service Virtualization