STAREAST 2024 Pre-conference Training : Agile Tester Certification (2–Day)
Sunday, May 7, 2017 - 8:30am to Monday, May 8, 2017 - 5:00pm

Agile Tester Certification (2–Day)

  • Discover how testing is implemented in different agile environments
  • Learn about user stories and how to test them
  • Explore key agile testing practices—ATDD, BDD, TDD, and ET
  • Examine technical and team skills you need for success
  • Recognize the main agile testing challenges and how to address them

Agile software practices are being employed within many development organizations worldwide. More and more test teams and testers are participating in agile projects or are embedded within agile teams. Many testers struggle to understand the agile development process and their place in it. Learn the fundamentals of agile development, the role of the tester in the agile team, and the agile testing processes. From user story elicitation and grooming through development and testing, this course prepares you to be a valuable member of an agile development team. Explore the business and technology-facing tests agile projects demand and how agile testers help the project succeed. Learn about the techniques of Test-Driven Development (TDD), Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). Learn technical and team skills testers need for success in the world of agile development.

Practice of Agile Testing Techniques
Explore agile testing processes in an informal and interactive workshop setting. Examples are studied through a series of small group exercises and discussions.

Who Should Attend?
This course is appropriate for both novice and experienced software testers. Developers expected to test within agile teams will find this course extremely useful. Test and development managers also will benefit from this course. A background of basic development and testing processes is helpful.

ISTQB® Certification & Exam
The International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) is the world's most widely-recognized certification of software testing skills and knowledge. Founded in 2002, the ISTQB is is a not-for-profit association that has issued more than 750,000 certifications in 129 countries around the globe. The ISTQB Software Tester Certification—Foundation Level (CTFL) is a prerequisite for the ISTQB Foundation Level Extension—Agile Tester (CTFL-AT) exam.

For public virtual classes, you have the option to add on the ISTQB Foundation Level Extension—Agile Tester (CTFL-AT) exam voucher when you register for the class. The exam is an additional fee and is not included in the course price. If you choose to add on the exam voucher, it will be emailed to you upon completion of the course. If you do not choose to add-on the voucher when purchasing this class, you must reach out to an exam provider directly if you wish to take an exam later.

The ISTQB Foundation Level Extension—Agile Tester (CTFL-AT) exam is not currently available for in-person public training. You must reach out to an exam provider directly if you wish to take an exam later.

Please reach out to client support with any questions [email protected].

ICAgile Certification
Successful attendees are awarded the ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Testing (ICP-TST). Additionally, the certified attendees will be listed on the ICAgile website, indicating their designation. Coveros recommends Agile Fundamentals - ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP) for those seeking ICAgile's Agile Testing certifications.The ICAgile certification fee is included with your registration for your convenience.

Students not looking for certification and only taking the Agile Testing course should already have a good knowledge of agile principles and how agile teams function.

Course Outline

Introduction
Validation
Verification
Exploration
Testing as a skill set
Testing to support customers
Testing to support developers
Testing to support stakeholders
Test matrix
Agility, grace, and flexibility

Agile Testing Origins
Agile testing history
Agile testing philosophy
Traditional vs. agile testing
Evolving lifecycle models
Waterfall
Spiral
Structured
Scrum
Extreme Programming
Kanban
Testing and the agile manifesto
Testing and agile principles
What is quality
What is done
Testing as a team approach
Teams and process
Requirements
Unit testing
Integration testing
System testing
Acceptance testing

Agile Planning and the User Story
Testing during iteration planning
Testing’s role in planning
Release Planning
Product backlog
Story tests

Agile Planning and the User Story (continued)
Constraints
Sizing stories
Backlog grooming
Sprint backlog
Basis for testing
Testing activities in the sprint

Testing in the Heat of the Sprint
Continuous integration
Test-driven development
Automating unit tests
Acceptance test-driven development
Behavior driven development
Scripting
Exploratory testing
Non-functional testing
Post-development testing
Release testing
User acceptance testing
Live testing

At Sprint's End
Customer demo
Retrospective
Avoiding technical debt

Organizing Agile Testing
Measuring progress
Test documentation
Test environments
Bug management
Agile test automation
Distributed agile teams

Wrap Up

Class Daily Schedule
Sign-In/Registration 7:30-8:30am
Morning Session 8:30am-12:00pm
Lunch 12:00-1:00pm
Afternoon Session 1:00-5:00pm
Times represent the typical daily schedule. Please confirm your schedule at registration.
 
Training Course Fee Includes
• ICAgile certification fee
• Digitial course materials
• Continental breakfasts and refreshment breaks
• Lunches
• Letter of completion
Rob_Sabourin
AmiBug.Com, Inc.

Rob Sabourin has more than thirty-five years of management experience leading teams of software development professionals. A highly-respected member of the software engineering community, Rob has managed, trained, mentored, and coached hundreds of top professionals in the field. He frequently speaks at conferences and writes on software engineering, SQA, testing, management, and internationalization. Rob authored I am a Bug!, the popular software testing children's book; works as an adjunct professor of software engineering at McGill University; and serves as the principal consultant (and president/janitor) of AmiBug.Com, Inc. Contact Rob at [email protected].