Description
Exam Name: Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Management
Exam Code: CTAL-TM
Related Certification(s): ISTQB Test Manager Certification
Certification Provider: ISTQB
Actual Exam Duration: 120 Minutes
Number of CTAL-TM practice questions in our database: 65
Expected CTAL-TM Exam Topics, as suggested by ISTQB :
- Module 1: The Test Process: This section measures the skills of Test Managers and covers summarizing test planning, monitoring, control, and completion activities. Understanding the steps and considerations within each of these phases of the testing lifecycle is essential. A key skill here involves “summarizing test planning activities.
- Module 2: The Context of Testing: This section assesses the abilities of Quality Assurance Leads in understanding the context of testing. It compares stakeholders’ interests in testing, explains the importance of their knowledge, and summarizes test management activities for various software development lifecycles, test levels, and test types. Analyzing a project to determine activities that emphasize test planning, monitoring, and control is also included.
- Module 3: Risk-Based Testing: This domain evaluates the competencies of Risk Analysts in applying risk-based testing. It explains measures to respond to risks, techniques for identifying risks related to product quality, factors determining risk levels, and selecting test activities to mitigate risks. Differentiating between heavyweight and lightweight techniques, and providing examples of success metrics are also summarized.
- Module 4: The Project Test Strategy: This section focuses on the skills of Test Strategists in defining a project test strategy. It explains choices for a test approach, analyzes an organizational test strategy and project context to select an appropriate approach, and uses the S.M.A.R.T. goal methodology to define measurable test objectives and exit criteria.
- Module 5: Improving the Test Process: This section targets the skills of Process Improvement Specialists in improving the test process. It involves explaining how to use the IDEAL model, summarizing model-based and analytical-based improvement approaches, and implementing a project or iteration retrospective to evaluate test processes and discover testing areas for improvement.
- Module 6: Test Tools: This section evaluates the capabilities of Test Automation Engineers in utilizing test tools. It summarizes best practices for tool introduction, explains the impact of different technical and business aspects when deciding on a tool type, analyzes a given situation to create a plan for tool selection covering risks, costs, and benefits, differentiates among the stages of the tool lifecycle, and gives examples for metric collection and evaluation by using tools.
- Module 7: Test Metrics: This section measures the skills of Test Analysts related to using test metrics to achieve test objectives and control progress. Analyzing test results to create reports that empower stakeholders to make decisions is also covered.
- Module 8: Test Estimation: This section assesses the skills of Estimation Specialists in test estimation. It explains factors to consider in test estimation, examples of factors influencing estimates, and selecting appropriate techniques for a given context.
- Module 9: Defect Management: This domain evaluates the competencies of Defect Managers in implementing a defect management process, including the defect workflow, to monitor and control defects. It also explains the process and participants required for effective defect management, specifics in Agile, challenges in hybrid development, data to be gathered, and how defect report statistics can be used for process improvement.
- Module 10: The Test Team: This section focuses on the skills of Team Leads regarding the test team. It includes examples of typical skills needed by test team members, analyzing a project context to determine required skills, explaining techniques for skill assessments, differentiating between approaches for developing skills, explaining skills required to manage a test team, and examples of motivating factors.
- Module 11: Stakeholder Relationship: This section measures the skills of Stakeholder Managers in stakeholder relationships. It gives examples for each of the four categories determining the cost of quality and applying a cost-benefit calculation to estimate the added value of testing for stakeholders.
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