ISTQB Certifications

ISTQB Advanced Level Workshop (Test Manager)

Course Outline :

1. Basic aspects of software testing

  • Testing in the software lifecycle
  • Specific systems
  • Metrics and measurement

2. Testing processes

  • Test planning and control
  • Test implementation and execution
  • Evaluating exit criteria and reporting
  • Test closure activities

3. Test management

  • Test management documentation
  • Test plan documentation
  • Test estimation
  • Scheduling test planning
  • Test progress and control
  • Business value of testing
  • Distributed, outsourced and insourced testing
  • Risk-based testing
  • Failure mode and effects analysis
  • Test management issues
  • Pending from Day 1 (Test Management Module)

4. Test techniques

  • Note: This is an overview only. For a course that focuses on test techniques, see
  • ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst

5. Tests of software characteristics
6. Reviews

  • The principles of reviews
  • Introducing reviews
  • Success factors for reviews

7. Incident management
8. Test process improvement

  • Standards consideration
  • Improving the test process

9. Test tool and automation

  • Test tool concepts
  • Test tool categories

10. People skills and team composition

  • Individual skills
  • Test team dynamics
  • Fitting testing with an organisation
  • Motivation
  • Communication

11. Mock Exam 1
12. Discussion
13. Closing.

On completion participants will Be able to define overall test goals and strategy for systems being tested; Know how to plan, schedule and track tasks; Know how to describe and organize the necessary activities; Be able to select, acquire and assign adequate resources to tasks; Know how to select, organize and lead test teams; Better organize the communication within test teams, and between test teams and other stakeholders; More efficiently justify decisions and provide adequate reporting information where applicable.