ISTQB® Certified Tester Foundation Level (CT-FL) - E-Learning in blended learning format

This course provides an immediately applicable foundation in all core areas of methodical software testing. This will benefit all roles involved in testing, regardless of industry.
The course is the ideal preparation for the exam for the globally recognized certificate.

With imbus e-learning in blended learning format, you can learn in a fun way, when and where you want, with our experts at your side and with the opportunity for peer-to-peer interaction.
Find out more about the imbus e-Learning concept below on this page.

A particular advantage of this format is that you can choose how much time you spend each day during the
4-week course. Our course is designed for an average time commitment of approximately 8-10 hours per week for self-study of the learning units and approximately 3.5 hours per week for the virtual classroom workshops.
 
Our learning platform is available to you for a further 4 weeks after the end of the course.

This comprehensive course covers all the fundamental aspects of software testing and its benefits in both traditional and agile project environments.

After attending our training course, participants will be familiar with the basic concepts of testing, different testing approaches and their strengths and weaknesses. They will be able to identify and implement the activities appropriate to their needs and to assess the quality of the resulting documents and the efficiency of testing. They will know how to improve testing and to adapt the testing process to the surrounding software development life cycle. They will understand the principles of test management. They will understand both the impact of risks on testing and the factors that influence test prioritisation and effort.

They will see their role as part of a cross-functional team, identify the skills required for testing and they will have practised techniques such as writing clear and effective reports on defects, test progress and quality.

They will also have considered the risks and benefits of test automation.

This seminar covers the contents of the official ISTQB^® syllabus in Version 4 and is accredited by the German Testing Board. It provides you with the ideal preparation for taking the exam to obtain the "ISTQB^® Certified Tester Foundation Level" certificate.

• What is testing, why is it necessary and how does it contribute to success?

• Testing terms and definitions

• Testing Principles

• Testing activities, tools and roles (testing activities and tasks, the testing process in context, traceability between test basis and testware, roles of testing)
  Skills and good practices (whole team approach, independence of testing)

• Testing as part of the software development lifecycle - interdependencies and good practices (e.g. DevOps and testing, shift-left approach, retrospectives and process improvement)

• Test levels and test types, debugging and regression testing

• Static testing (fundamentals, feedback and review process)

• Test analysis and design (black-box testing, white-box testing, experience-based testing, collaborative testing approaches, e.g. ATDD)

• Management of test activities (test planning, risk management, test monitoring, test control and closure, configuration and defect management)

• Test tools (tool support for testing, benefits and risks of test automation)

This course opens up the professional field of software testing to everyone, regardless of their technical background. Accordingly, experience of software, whether in use or in development, is useful but not essential.

The perfect book to review all the content in a compact format: when you register for a public training course, you will receive a free copy of the e-book “Basiswissen Softwaretest” by Andreas Spillner and Tilo Linz or “Software Testing Foundations” by Andreas Spillner and Tilo Linz.

Module-based online learning units in your imbus Digital Learning Environment, accompanied by regular workshops in the Virtual Classroom (VC).

E-learning in blended learning format fits you if you:

• want to decide for yourself when and where you wish to learn.
• like to work through self-organized learning units at your own pace during the course.
• want to determine your learning time independently.
• can invest about 8-10 hours per week to complete the learning units on your own.
• can spare about 3.5 hours per week for the Virtual Classroom Workshops.
• are able and willing to hang in there! The blended learning format calls for self-initiative in order to be completed successfully.

For details of the available variants of the classic 3-5 day full-time format, please see our ISTQB^® Certified Tester Foundation Level training specification.