ISTQB Advanced Functional Tester Course

This course shall teach you the techniques you need in order to make good test cases. These are test cases that do not overlap, are effective and efficient, i.e. find as many problems as possible.

Another area of interest are reviews. You use them to check any kind of documents and find trouble in them.

The course leads to the ISTQB advanced functional tester certificate examination. It follows the syllabus from 2005. The examination is held at the end of the course

1. Introduction

1. Practical introduction
2. Course overview
3. Exam overview
4. Classification of functional testing techniques

                i.       Black Box

                ii.       White Box

                iii.      Experience based

                iv.      Random

5. The V-model

 2. Testing techniques

1. Black Box testing techniques

               i.      Equivalence partitioning

               ii.      Boundary value analysis

               iii.      Domain testing

               iv.      Classification tree method, pair wise testing

               v.      Decision tables and Cause-effect analysis

               vi.      State transition testing

               vii.      Syntax testing

               viii.      General requirements based testing

               ix.      Exercise to each technique

         b.   White box techniques

         c.    Random and statistical testing

         d.    Experience based techniques

                i.      Ad-hoc testing

                ii.      Error guessing and special value testing

                iii.      Exploratory testing

                iv.      Exercise: Making a list of special values

                v.      Exercise: Exploratory testing of a web site

         e.    Special techniques

                i.      Soap-opera testing in high level test

                ii.      Static analysis

         f.     How to identify the right mix of techniques

                i.      Integrity level scheme

                ii.      Different techniques at different test levels

                iii.      What standards tell about selecting techniques

 3. Review techniques

1.  Why to use reviews
2.  Why reviews work
3.  Where to use reviews
4.  Problems with reviews

                i.      Exercise – brainstorming

                ii.      Exercise – hidden agendas

5. Review techniques and roles
6. IEEE Standard 1028- 1997 and 1028-2007

4. The individual techniques

1. Informal review
2. Walkthrough
3. Technical review
4. Inspection
5. Organizing and running an inspection – exercise
6. Comparison of the techniques

5. Exam exercise

Trial exam and walkthrough of answers

Other questions and answers