Guidelines for clearing ISTQB Certification Exam

Before we start understanding coverage calculation using different techniques, I would like to ask you to be really patient to read through the complete post. I tell you this because this particular post is going to be really lengthier post of posts that I have posted so far. :) In my previous post I have covered about "Statement, Decision and Path Coverage", Hence I am going to skip them here if you have not taken look yet you can refer here . As part of TTA course we will explore few more coverage testing techniques. So in this post we are going to talk about: Condition Coverage ( K2) Decision Condition Coverage (K3/K4) Modified Condition/ Decision Coverage (K3/K4) Multiple Condition Coverage (K3/K4) Condition Coverage:  The basic concept is that, when a decision is made by a complex expression that eventually evaluates to TRUE/FALSE, we want to make sure each atomic condition in the decision should be test for true/false. Condition Coverage is also called as

In this post, I am going to give general information which is important to get started with Preparation for ISTQB - Technical Test Analyst exam. Exam Structure: The exam will consist of 45 scenario based multiple choice questions . Exam duration is 2 hours for native English speaker for non native English speaker you will get extra 30 min of duration. The passing marks is set at 65%. Technical Test Analyst course consists of 6 Chapters, I have given overview below of number of questions that would be asked in exam from each chapter and score distribution for the same. Topics Question Score Risk-Based Testing 2Q K2 level - each carrying 1 marks Structure Based testing 9Q 2 K2 – 1 , 4 K3 – 1, 1 K2 – 2, 1 K4 -2 Analytical Techniques 7Q 1 K3 – 3, 3 K3 – 1, 1 K2 - 1 Quality characteristics 12 Q 3 K3 – 1, 1 K4 – 2, 1 K2 – 1, 2 K3 – 2, 1 K2 – 2 Reviews 5Q 1 K2 – 1, 2 K4 - 2

As part of Technical Test Analyst course, we study Quality attributes more in depth. This course expects a Technical Test analyst to be familiar with all the quality characteristic listed below also this course demands individual to know and be able to distinguish between responsibilities of Test Analyst and Technical Test Analyst. Table below gives an overview of responsibilities of TA and TTA according to ISO-9126 Standard. Characteristic Sub characteristic TA TTA Functionality Accuracy, Suitability, Interoperability, Compliance X Security X Reliability Maturity, Fault-Tolerance, Recoverability, Compliance X Usability Understandability, Learnability, Operability, Attractiveness, Compliance X Efficiency Performance(Time Behavior), Resource Utilization, Compliance X Maintainability Analyzability, Changeability, Stability, Testability, Co