Training > ISTQB/ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing
ISTQB/ISEB Foundation Certificate in
Software Testing
Course Description
This certification provides a competitive advantage to companies which want their software testing to match international standards.
Intended Audience
Testers with 3+ months testing experience, test analysts, test managers, business analysts, and developers.
Course Content
Fundamentals of testing
- Testing terminology and fundamental aspects of the testing process
- Important concepts in testing
- Good communication and the importance of independence for successful testing
Testing throughout the software life cycle
- The role of testing in the SDLC
- Software development models
- What constitutes good testing
- Test levels discussed within a V-model
- Targets of testing
- Maintenance testing
- Distinct between verification and validation testing
- Important principles governing the economic viability of testing
Dynamic testing techniques
- Equivalence partitioning
- Boundary value analysis
- State transition testing
- Cause-effect graphing
- Negative testing
- Random testing
Static techniques
- Techniques performed without executing any program code are covered
- Distinguishing the two different test processes, using static or dynamic techniques
- Static testing techniques such as reviews, data flow analysis, control flow graphing, and complexity analysis
Test design techniques
- Identification of test conditions
- Test case design
- Examples of case testing
- Factors to consider in the choice of techniques
Test management
- Important test management principles
- Benefits and pitfalls of various test organisation structures
- Influences on test planning and estimation
- Test progress monitoring and control with appropriate tools
- Configuration management with its tools, risk and testing
- Incident management
- Applying testing standards
Tool support for testing
- Key issues for the effective use of tools
- Test tool types
- Effective use of tools, including their benefits and risks
- Introduction of a tool into an organisation
- Summary of tool types