
Explore why software projects fail, including miscalculated time and budget frames, lack of communication, lack of end-user involvement, chasing technology, downtime, and lack of quality testing.
Explore the agile manifesto and its four value statements, prioritizing individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responsiveness to change, to guide agile software development.
Emphasizes delivering working software as the measure of progress, maintaining a sustainable pace, and focusing on simplicity, technical excellence, and self-organizing teams through regular retrospectives.
Discover how extreme programming (xp) embodies agile values: communication, simplicity, feedback, courage, and respect, and examine its thirteen practices, including sit together, pair programming, and continuous integration.
Define the tester's role in agile lifecycles, with Scrum as an example, emphasizing cross-functional, co-located, collaborative, committed, and transparent teams that plan, test, and report together.
Explore how acceptance criteria and adequate coverage guide agile testing, using backlog user stories, non-functional requirements, and a test basis to verify functional behavior and quality attributes.
Apply acceptance test-driven development by creating tests before coding in a workshop with developers, testers, and business representatives. Express tests in natural language, covering positive, negative, and non-functional attributes.
Agile testers work with developers using user stories and acceptance criteria, applying black box techniques like equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, and state transition testing to cover non-functional requirements.
Explore mind maps for rapid test design, and the role of test case management, data preparation and generation, and automated execution tools in agile and exploratory testing.
"I passed thanks to this course! I really recommend it, it contains everything from the syllabus, Maged enriches the content with some very valuable concepts, team velocity, burn down and burn up charts, etc. Just go through the course one time taking the course quizzes, then take a couple of sample exams, know what you need to reinforce, go through the course again to reinforce any concepts you missed on the first run. Pass the test. *I used the 1.5 speed on the video on my second run and was able to understand it perfectly. Thanks!!"---Mario Martinez
"The material is very good; the delivery is overall adequate The instructor is somewhat difficult to understand, although you can understand him if you concentrate. The video of him talking...VERY distracting. But basically, I am learning a lot and feel comfortable that at the end of the course, I will be well prepared for the ISTQB® Agile Tester exam."---Cassandra Myer
Agile testing is an evolving approach to software testing that follows the principles of agile software development as defined in the Agile Manifesto.
A tester on an agile project will need some new skills compared to a tester working on a traditional project. Testers must understand the values and principles that are backing up agile projects in different environments. Testers should be involved in every activity of the agile team, not just in plain testing activities.
Testers are an integral part of an agile team together with developers and business representatives. Testers on agile teams use their expertise in creating testable examples of desired behavior from business representatives and collaborating with the developers to turn those into specifications that guide all development activities.
There are a lot of things to learn about testing and quality in agile projects. The ISTQB® Agile Tester Extension will give the testers, test managers, and others that are interested in the knowledge to be part of agile teams and achieve high performance at your work.
The ISTQB® Agile Tester Extension course helps participants to obtain the ISTQB® Foundation Extension Agile Tester certificate. The course is very useful for all testers, test coordinators, test managers, user acceptance testers, or software developers who work or are planning to start working with Agile or any other iterative projects.
The course is highly practical in addressing the following areas:
The fundamentals of Agile Software Development and the various Agile approaches that are recognized and how these embrace the 4 values and 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto.
How Agile projects differ from traditional projects and what methods are implemented to demonstrate the status of testing throughout the project.
Understanding the role of the tester on an Agile project and how to contribute to; estimating user stories, assessing quality risks, generating testable acceptance criteria, and interpreting relevant information to support testing activities.
Understand the various tools that support testing in an Agile project and how these differ from a traditional project.
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