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Assessment and validation of the business solution are important and frequent activities of product owners (POs), business analysts (BAs) and testers. Part of their responsibilities is to define acceptance criteria for the requirements, regardless of the type of development lifecycle – Agile or traditional. Acceptance criteria are defined by decomposing the requirements into a more atomic and testable form. Test cases are then designed to verify the solution against the criteria. Designing acceptance tests from acceptance criteria should be a highly collaborative activity, involving business analysts and testers, to ensure high business value of the acceptance testing phase, and mitigating the risks related to product release.
Supporting this collaborative work, and thereby avoiding the silo effect between product owners / business analysts and testers, is the key objective of the syllabus of ISTQB® Certified Tester - Acceptance Testing.
You can prepare for the exam by attending an accredited training course for ISTQB® Certified Tester - Acceptance Testing; participants will have relevant content and topics clearly explained and taught to them.
The syllabus includes topics relevant to anyone involved in acceptance testing:
The exam is available as remote exam and in Pearson Vue test centers for anyone wishing to self-study.
In order to take the ISTQB® Certified Tester - Acceptance Testing exam, you will need the ISTQB® Certified Tester − Foundation Level certificate.
As this qualification covers three roles, business analysts, product owners, and testers, the business skills targeted are expressed by role.
###For business analysts and product owners:
### For testers:
This acceptance testing qualification is aimed at anyone involved in software acceptance testing activities. This includes people in roles such as:
The focus of the syllabus is on the concepts, methods and practices of collaboration between product owners / business analysts and testers in acceptance testing. Regarding the different forms of acceptance testing defined in the ISTQB® Certified Tester Syllabus – Acceptance Testing Version 2019, this syllabus covers user acceptance testing (UAT), contractual and regulatory acceptance testing as well as alpha and beta testing. This syllabus voluntarily does not address the operational acceptance testing (OAT) because this is generally performed by teams that will operate the system rather than by testers and business analysts.
Other ISTQB® certifications that may be of interest:
ISTQB® Specialist Certifications:
**ISTQB® Agile Certifications: **
ISTQB® Advanced Level:
ISTQB® Expert Level:
If you are seeking to extend your knowledge of** test automation**, we recommend:
If you need to be able to gather requirements then you could consider IREB® Certified Professional Requirements Engineer – Foundation Level CPRE-FL
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