ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Training (CTFL)
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M1 — Testing Fundamentals: Principles, Terms and Why We Test
What testing is and what it is not: showing the presence of defects
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The seven testing principles and what each one changes in a plan
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Test activities, testware and the roles that carry them
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The cost of a defect: why early detection dominates the economics
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Quality, quality characteristics and the cost of getting it wrong
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Vocabulary precision: the terms an exam question turns on
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M2 — Testing Through the Life Cycle and Static Testing
Test levels: component, integration, system and acceptance
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Test types: functional, non-functional, regression and change related
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Maintenance testing: what happens to the suite after the release
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Testing inside development and testing after release
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Static testing: reviews, walkthroughs and inspections that find defects early
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Choosing the test approach for waterfall, agile or DevOps delivery
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M3 — Test Analysis and Design: An Overview
The test design process: from what to test to the cases you will run
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Black-box, white-box and experience-based techniques side by side
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Test basis, test oracle and how you know a test is meaningful
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The collaboration-based test approach and the three-party session
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Coverage: statement, branch, condition and path coverage explained
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Choosing a technique per risk instead of applying one technique everywhere
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M4 — Black-Box and White-Box Techniques in Practice
Equivalence partitioning: reducing an input range to a few valid classes
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Boundary value analysis: the off-by-one errors that hide at the edge
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Decision table testing: rules, conditions and expected results
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State transition testing: a diagram of states and the events between them
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Error guessing: using experience to predict where defects hide
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White-box coverage and statement testing with a code path example
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M5 — Managing the Test Activities
Test planning: objectives, scope, strategy, resources and schedule
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Test estimation techniques and the effort numbers a manager must defend
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Risk-based testing: which tests you run first and which you will not run
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Test monitoring and control: what you measure while the work happens
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Configuration management: keeping the testware and the build in step
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Test completion criteria and the report that closes the phase
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M6 — Defect Management, Quality and Tools
Writing a defect report: steps to reproduce, actual and expected result
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The defect lifecycle from new to closed and what each state means
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Metrics worth reporting: coverage, defect density and effectiveness
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Test tooling: management, design, execution and monitoring categories
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The benefits and the risks of test automation
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Static and dynamic tool support and what each one cannot do
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M7 — The CTFL Exam: Syllabus, Format and Question Style
The exam format: 40 questions, 60 minutes, 26 of 40 points to pass
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The extra 15 minutes for candidates whose first language is not the exam language
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How the six syllabus chapters are weighted across the 40 questions
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Question style: K1 recall, K2 application and K3 scenario thinking
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Traps in the wording: absolute terms like always and never
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Two timed practice papers and a revision plan by chapter
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M8 — Capstone: Test Plan, Test Case Set and a Mock Paper
Capstone: writing a test plan for a real change with real risks
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Producing the test cases: partition, boundary, table and transition cases
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The test basis, the trace matrix and the coverage argument
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Running the mock paper under exam timing and scoring by chapter
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Writing the defect report and the test summary report
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Reworking the two weakest chapters and re-sitting the paper
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