ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)

These learning objectives are achieved by mastering detailed topics such as:

• Typical test objectives,
• Distinguishing testing from debugging,
• Explaining testing necessity,
• Understanding the relationship between testing and quality assurance,
• Differentiating root cause, error, defect, and failure,
• Summarizing testing principles and activities,
• Explaining context’s impact on testing,
• Detailing test ware supporting test activities,
• Emphasizing traceability’s value,
• Comparing different roles in testing,
• Exemplifying generic testing skills,
• Understanding the whole team approach’s advantages,
• Explaining software development lifecycle impact on testing,
• Recalling good testing practices,
• Summarizing test-first approaches,
• Discussing DevOps’ impact on testing,
• Explaining the shift-left approach,
• Using retrospectives for process improvement,
• Distinguishing test levels and types,
• Summarizing maintenance testing triggers,
• Recognizing products examined by static test techniques,
• Explaining static vs. dynamic testing,
• Identifying benefits of stakeholder feedback,
• Summarizing review process activities,
• Comparing review types,
• Recalling factors contributing to successful reviews,
• Distinguishing black-box, white-box, and experience-based test techniques,
• Utilizing equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision table testing, and state transition testing to derive test cases,
• Explaining statement and branch testing,
• Emphasizing white-box testing’s value,
• Explaining error guessing, exploratory testing, and checklist-based testing,
• Detailing user story writing collaboration with developers and business representatives,
• Classifying acceptance criteria options
• Using acceptance test-driven development (ATDD) to derive test cases.

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