
Explore the fundamentals of agile software development and how the Agile Manifesto prioritizes individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responsiveness to change.
Embrace a whole team approach to agile development, uniting testers, developers, and business representatives from start to finish. Foster collaboration, co-location, acceptance tests, and testing strategies to ensure quality.
Learn to write testable user stories in agile from the end user perspective, using the as a user I want format, with invest criteria, poker planning, and clear acceptance criteria.
Discover how retrospective meetings in agile adapt and improve, driving changes in process, people, organization, relationships, and tools with testers and non testers within a 7–14 day sprint.
Learn how continuous integration supports agile development by merging daily code changes into a repeatable automated process that builds, tests, and deploys software, with visible results and rapid feedback.
Contrast traditional and agile testing, from the V Model's sequential tests to agile iterations and shared ownership, with automation and evolving test roles across unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing.
Explore tools and techniques agile teams use to communicate test status, progress, and product quality, including burn down charts, agile task boards, stand-up meetings, and defects and code metrics.
Explore the role and skills of a tester in an agile team, including collaboration with stakeholders, defining acceptance criteria, coaching on testing, and applying automation practices to ensure quality.
Explore the four testing quadrants and their links to testing levels and types. Learn how unit, functional, UAT, performance, and security tests fit the development lifecycle.
Assess quality risks in agile projects and estimate testing effort using techniques to mitigate risk. Prioritize test conditions by risk and apply suitable test techniques during release and iteration planning.
ISTQB Foundation-Agile Tester Course offers an introduction to the fundamentals of Agile Software Testing.
The certification for Foundation Level Extension - Agile Tester is designed for professionals who are working within Agile environments. It is also for professionals who are planning to start implementing Agile methods in the near future, or are working within companies that plan to do so, The certification provides an advantage for those who would like to know the required Agile activities, roles, methods, and methodologies specific to their role.
The Foundation Level Extension - Agile Tester qualification is aimed at professionals who are interested in understanding the testers role in an Agile environment, and need more understanding and knowledge about how to perform and manage testing on all levels in Agile projects. These professionals include people who are in roles such as testers, test analysts, test engineers, test consultants, test managers, user acceptance testers, and software developers. This Foundation Level Extension - Agile Tester certification may also be appropriate for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of software testing in the Agile world, such as project managers, quality managers, software development managers, business analysts, IT directors, and management consultants.
Course Contents
Collaborate in a cross-functional Agile team being familiar with principles and basic practices of Agile software development
Adapt existing testing experience and knowledge to Agile values and principles
Support the Agile team in planning test-related activities
Apply relevant methods and techniques for testing in an Agile project
Assist the Agile team in test automation activities
Assist business stakeholders in defining understandable and testable user stories, scenarios, requirements and acceptance criteria as appropriate
Work and share information with other team members using effective communication styles and channels