Guidelines for clearing ISTQB Certification Exam

I firstly want to congratulate you on your  ISTQB Foundation certification  :) As you are already aware in Advanced level you have 3 modules (within core part), only criteria to take up these exams is to have " Foundation certification with 3 year of work experience ". There is no order that should be followed to take these exams. You can randomly chose an exam module you would like to take. Of course which is interesting for you! Test Manager (CTAL - TM) Test Analyst (CTAL - TA) Technical Test Analyst ( CTAL - TTA) I started with  Test Analyst  module. So, I am going to talk about the same in this post.  Study material for CTAL - TA Module Syllabus: CTAL- TA exam syllabus can be  downloaded  from here. As I already mentioned in my previous posts reading just this is not enough to take up exam.  The perfect book   is "  Advanced Software Testing Volume 1: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced T...

I think, I have spoken enough about how to prepare for exam and solved few sample questions. So, in this post I would like to talk about final exam preparation tips. So, after you finish reading all the chapter and after solving sample questions at the end of the chapter you want to solve some sample question papers to understand your level of preparation. you can find few online site that gives mock exams, here are few( I recommend first two websites from the list below ): istqbexamcertifictaion   testpot  testingexcellence  softwaretestinggenius  There is also a very good mobile app called " ISTQB Test Mentor " which gives chapter wise sample questions for each chapter. Good app to use few days before exam!! Exam Structure The Foundation Level exam is characterized by: 40 multiple-choice questions a scoring of 1 point for each correct answer a pass mark of 65% (26 or more points) a duration of 60 minutes (or 75 minutes for candidates takin...

State Transition In this post, I would like to explain more about State transition Testing and 'N- Switch' Coverage. Let us consider sample question below and try to solve it. Q: Given the following state transition Which of the following series of state transitions below will provide 0-switch coverage? Answers: i) A, B, E, B, C, F, D. ii) A, B, E, B, C, F, F. iii) A, B, E, B, C, D. iv) A, B, C, F, F, D. Before jumping on to solving this question, Lets get concept of N-switch in this particular example its  0-switch . What do you think is this 0- switch ? If every  valid  transition is tested considering  one transition at a time  then, this is known as “ 0-switch ” coverage. If you test a series of transitions through more than one state. If you covered all of the pairs of two valid transitions, you would have “1-switch” coverage, covering the sets of 3 transitions would give “2-switch” coverage, etc. 0- Switch Coverage I tried...

Critical chapter of Foundation syllabus is Test design Technique. So, i want to start from there. Calculate Statement, Branch/Decision and Path coverage for code below ? Read X,Y; If (X>Y) Then print" X is greater"; End If If (X+Y > 100) Then print "large";    If (Y == 50)     Then print "X should be more than 50";    End If End If Answer:  Lets draw flow diagram for this code which will help us solve the problem easily. Statement Coverage: Now, lets calculate statement coverage, find out the shortest path covering  all nodes . If we consider exam above. Then Statement Coverage = 1A- 2C- 3D -4F -5G-6I-7J-K So, traversing in one path all the nodes are covered. Hence statement coverage in this case is 1. Branch Coverage: To calculate Branch/decision coverage we need to find out minimum number of paths covering  all the edges.  In this case, with path 1A-2C-3D -4F -5G-6I-7J-K maximum number of edges c...

ISTQB Certification exam..... Why do you want to get certified ? have you ever thought about this! If one answers this as  "Just for sake of having certificate!" then I would say this is not the blog to read!!! If you are interested to learn more about Test Design Techniques, How to apply them when you are designing test cases, to have confidence that you are Certified Test Professional with strong hold on testing concepts and finally to stand out among your colleagues then you are at the right place. In this blog I would be giving  information  about: ISTQB Exams How to prepare for exams and crack exam in first attempt Sample questions with step by step approach to solve the questions Dumps Final Exam Preparation and Tips Ok, Lets get started then :) ISTQB provides certification exams at different levels, if you want to get idea about this right place to look is " official w ebsite " So, you are right. irrespective of your experience you need to ...