ISTQB® Certified Tester Automotive Software Tester (CT-AuT)

Course structure

Fundamentals of Testing

• Software context — Why does software fail
• Principles, scope, and focus of testing — What is testing?
• Debugging vs. testing
• Goals of testing
• Fundamental testing process
• The psychology of testing — viewpoints on testing

Testing Throughout the Software Development Lifecycle

• Testing and development
• Early testing
• Iterative and traditional development models
• Verification and validation
• Test levels—unit, integration, system, acceptance
• Understanding regression testing and confirmation testing
• Understanding test types

Building system

• EPICS, Features and User Stories
• Introduction into UML
• CI pipeline

Static Techniques

• What is static testing?
• Reviews, inspections, walkthroughs, etc.
• General review process
• Common types of reviews
• Roles and responsibilities in reviews
• Success factors for reviews
• Limits of reviews
• Understanding static analysis tools
• Reviewing requirements, use cases, specifications, source code, and test cases

Test Design Techniques

• Introduction into test design and the design approach
• Types of test design techniques
• Black-box (functional) techniques
• White-box (structural) techniques
• Experience-based techniques
• Selecting the appropriate test technique

Test Management

• Team organization
• Roles and responsibilities
• Understanding the test manager
• Understanding the tester
• Test planning and strategy
• Understanding risk
• Goals and Metrics
• Identifying and analyzing the project and product risks
• Configuration management and testing
• Defect/incident classification and management

Tool Support for Testing

• Selection process
• Introduction of a tool into organization
• Benefits
• Risks and concerns
• Classifications

Building test teams

• Roles and qualifications

Test Automation

• Why test automation
• Benefits of the test automation
• Limits of the test automation
• (Acceptance) Test-Driven Development
• Test Automation Quadrants

The ISTQB CT-AuT course is implemented by an accredited provider, listed at https://partner.istqb.org/istqb-partners/find-a-partner.html

Certification

• Candidates have to have an ID or Passport to identify yourself.
• Candidates that take the exam in a different language as their native one and candidates with disabilities (e.g. dyslexia) will receive an additional 25% time.
• Candidates that take the exam in a different language as their native one, can use a paper dictionary to help with the translation or ask the proctor for the translation on the smartphone.
• All the examination papers and notes have to be returned to a proctor or destroyed in any case.

Candidates are not allowed to:

• use any kind of study materials
• use any kind of help from others
• use smartphones, headphones or any wearables
• leave the room/pc during the examination, even for the toilet

In the case of cheating, the exam session will be interrupted, and your exam attempt will be considered as failed