ISTQB Certified Tester Agile Technical Tester (CT-ATT) (TSG_TAT)

After successfully completing the course and passing the exam, delegates should be able to demonstrate the following business-based outcomes: 

• • Apply Agile techniques to ensure tests that provide adequate coverage 
• • Define testable requirements within Agile Team 
• • Create and implement various Agile Test approaches using appropriate techniques 
• • Support and contribute to test automation activities in an Agile project 
• • Support continuous integration in an Agile Team 
• • Support Agile Team in continuous delivery and deployment 
• • Learn the service virtualization concepts 
• • Work with, and share information with, other team members using effective communication styles and channels 

In addition, Advanced Agile Technical Testers should be able to demonstrate their skills in the following areas once they have completed the course and passed the exam: 

• • Analyse user stories and epics using requirements engineering techniques 
• • Describe the requirements engineering techniques and how they can help testers
• • Create and evaluate testable acceptance criteria for a given user story using requirements engineering and test techniques 
• • Describe the elicitation techniques 
• • Apply test-driven development (TDD) in the context of a given example in an Agile project 
• • Understand the characteristics of a Unit test 
• • Understand the meaning of the mnemonic word FIRST Apply behaviour-driven development (BDD) in the context of a given user story in an Agile project 
• • Understand how to manage guidelines for a formulation of a scenario 
• • Analyse a product backlog in an Agile project to determine a way to introduce acceptance test-driven development 
• • Analyse the creation of a test approach using test automation, experience-based tests and back-box tests created using other approaches (including risk-based testing) for a given scenario in an Agile project 
• • Explain differences between Mission critical and non-critical 
• • Analyse user stories and epics to create test charters, and interpret their results 
• • Understand the use Experienced-based techniques 
• • Understand the importance of refactoring test cases in Agile projects 
• • Understand practical task-list for Refactoring Test cases 
• • Analyse code as part of a code review to identify defects and technical debt 
• • Understand Static code Analysis 
• • Apply data-driven and keyword-driven test techniques to develop automated test scripts 
• • Understand how to apply test automation to a given test approach in an Agile environment 
• • Understand the test automation
• • Understand differences between various test approaches 
• • Understand the factors to consider when determining the level of test automation needed to keep up with the speed of deployment 
• • Understand the challenges of test automation in agile settings 
• • Apply continuous integration (CI) and summarize its impact on testing activities 
• • Understand the role of continuous testing in continuous delivery and continuous deployment 
• • Understand the concept of service virtualization and its role in Agile projects 
• • Understand the benefits of service virtualization