This book teaches test managers what they need to know to achieve
advanced skills in test estimation, test planning, test monitoring, and
test control. Readers will learn how to define the overall testing goals
and strategies for the systems being tested.
This hands-on, exercise-rich book provides experience with planning,
scheduling, and tracking these tasks. You'll be able to describe and
organize the necessary activities as well as learn to select, acquire,
and assign adequate resources for testing tasks. You'll learn how to
form, organize, and lead testing teams, and master the organizing of
communication among the members of the testing teams, and between the
testing teams and all the other stakeholders. Additionally, you'll learn
how to justify decisions and provide adequate reporting information
where applicable.
With over thirty years of software and systems engineering experience,
author Rex Black is President of RBCS, is a leader in software,
hardware, and systems testing, and is the most prolific author
practicing in the field of software testing today. He has published a
dozen books on testing that have sold tens of thousands of copies
worldwide. He is past president of the International Software Testing
Qualifications Board (ISTQB) and a director of the American Software
Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB).
This book will help you prepare for the ISTQB Advanced Test Manager
exam. Included are sample exam questions, at the appropriate level of
difficulty, for most of the learning objectives covered by the ISTQB
Advanced Level Syllabus. The ISTQB certification program is the leading
software tester certification program in the world. With about 300,000
certificate holders and a global presence in over 50 countries, you can
be confident in the value and international stature that the Advanced
Test Manager certificate can offer you.
This second edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the new ISTQB
Advanced Test Manager 2012 Syllabus, and the latest ISTQB Glossary. This
edition reflects Rex Black's unique insights into these changes, as he
was one of the main participants in the ISTQB Advanced Level Working
Group.
