The two-day ISTQB® Acceptance Tester training course covers the fundamentals of software testing, providing you with the necessary foundations for a career as a software testing professional.
If you pass the ISTQB® Acceptance Tester exam, you should be able to accomplish the following objectives:
For Business Analysts & Product Owners:
• Contribute to an organization’s acceptance testing activities by participating in the acceptance test design phase and supporting the alignment of the product with the business requirements.
• Contribute to an organization’s acceptance testing activities by participating in the acceptance test design phase and supporting the alignment of the product with the business requirements.
• Contribute to the quality of the acceptance testing process, including validation and verification of produced artifacts.
For Testers:
• Contribute to the definition of acceptance criteria during the requirements definition phase.
• Collaborate efficiently with business analysts and other stakeholders during all acceptance testing activities.
• Understand the business objectives, communicate with business units, and share common objectives for acceptance testing.
Founded in 2002, ISTQB® (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) is a not-for-profit association comprising 47 national boards (including the UKTB) covering 71 countries worldwide.
ISTQB® has defined the Advanced certification as part of their ‘Certified Tester’ scheme that, with over 240,000 certifications, has become the de-facto worldwide standard for software testing qualifications.
The ‘Certified Tester’ scheme:
• Provides a set of professional qualifications widely-recognised by employers, customers and peers.
• Enables software suppliers to hire and train certified testers and thereby gain commercial advantage over their competitors by advertising their tester recruitment and development policies.
• Enables comparison of testing skills across different countries, testers to move across country borders more easily, and multi-national/international projects to have a common understanding of testing issues.
The ISTQB® Acceptance Tester training course is aimed at people who have already achieved a Foundation point in their careers in software testing and wish to develop further their expertise in Usability Testing.
• Full Materials
• Highly Skilled & Knowledgeable Tutors
• ISTQB® Acceptance Tester Examination
The entry requirements for the ISTQB® Acceptance Tester qualification are that you should hold an ISTQB® Foundation certificate.
On arrival at the course, you should have read the provided syllabus in preparation for the course. The ISTQB® Acceptance Tester course is intensive and those who have prepared achieve a higher exam success rate.
ISTQB® Acceptance Tester Examination:
To qualify as an internationally recognized Certified Foundation Acceptance Tester, you must successfully pass the exam:
• The examination consists of a one-hour exam with 40 multiple-choice questions.
• It will be a ‘closed book’ examination i.e., no notes or books will be allowed into the examination room.
• Duration of 60 minutes (or 75 minutes for candidates taking examinations that are not in their native language)
• The pass mark is 65% (26 out of 40).
IT professionals who have passed the “Acceptance Testing” syllabus exam should be able to demonstrate their skills in the following areas:
• Develop and review acceptance criteria for requirements and/or user stories in a collaborative way.
• Apply Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) techniques for a given scenario.
• Apply the Gherkin language for designing acceptance tests for a given scenario.
• Organize exploratory testing and beta testing session.
• Review business process/rule models specified in BPMN and DMN.
• Use business process/rule models specified in BPMN and DMN to create acceptance tests.
• Consider usability/user experience, performance efficiency and security in planning and performing acceptance testing.
• Collaborate efficiently with relevant stakeholders in acceptance testing activities including defect reporting and analysis and test status reporting.
• Select relevant tools for acceptance testing activities.