Typical roles
- You plan the test activities of a project and have to defend the effort.
- You assess quality risks and decide which of them get actively controlled.
- You lead a test team and own how its competences develop.
ISTQB® CTAL-TM - Advanced Level Test Management
Test management rarely fails on the test strategy. It fails because the estimate could not be defended, because a known risk interested nobody, or because the team was missing a competence that nobody ever assessed. The tecnovy CTAL-TM training works on exactly those three levels. One whole chapter, 225 minutes, goes to people rather than to technique. The one condition for the exam is the CTFL certificate.
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What this module delivers.
CTAL-TM takes test management to project level and explicitly not to organisational level. In the tecnovy training you plan a project's test activities, control quality risks in hybrid development models, and grow your test team's competences deliberately.
How the training runs
- Method
- Work management decisions through project scenarios
- Basis
- Official ISTQB syllabus 3.0
- Outcome
- 50 questions, 58 of 88 points, exam booked separately
Dates & booking
Choose a date that fits
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New dates are published regularly. Join the waitlist or plan an in-house course for your team.
Fit
Who this module is designed for
Prerequisites
Formal prerequisites
- For exam admission: the ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level certificate, issued by an ISTQB member board or by a body it has mandated.
- Alternatively a certificate that the German Testing Board expressly recognises as equivalent.
What helps you in the course
- Around six months of hands-on testing or software development, as the syllabus recommends.
Consider instead CTFL Supplies the formal prerequisite for CTAL-TM and asks for no prior knowledge itself.
Curriculum
ISTQB CTAL-TM Course in Detail
Syllabus 3.0 splits CTAL-TM into three chapters across at least 22.75 hours of instruction. It runs from the test activities through the product to the team, and the weighting is pronounced: the first chapter takes more than half the time.
01Managing the Test Activities
By far the longest chapter: the whole cycle from planning through to closure.
- Test planning, monitoring, control and completion as activities
- Test management inside a hybrid software development model
- Risk-based testing: identifying, assessing and mitigating quality risks
- Test process improvement along IDEAL, retrospectives, tool selection and ROI
02Managing the Product
This part is the numbers you justify and report your testing with.
- Metrics for test management activities, and test reporting
- What drives test effort, and how to choose the right estimation technique
- The defect lifecycle and cross-functional defect management
- What is different about defect management in agile teams
03Managing the Team
The chapter no other ISTQB module at tecnovy carries: the people.
- The typical competences across the four areas of competence
- Analysing, assessing and developing competences within the test team
- The management skills that leading a test team demands
- Stakeholder relationships, cost of quality and the cost-benefit of testing
Outcome
What you will be able to do afterwards
- 01
You plan test activities and set entry and exit criteria your team will stand behind.
- 02
You steer testing in hybrid development models that mix agile and sequential parts.
- 03
You identify and assess quality risks, and derive the test coverage from them.
- 04
You improve the test process along IDEAL and facilitate retrospectives.
- 05
You evaluate test tools by their return on investment rather than by feature lists.
- 06
You choose estimation techniques and justify the test effort to stakeholders.
- 07
You shape the defect lifecycle and adapt it to the way agile teams work.
- 08
You analyse your test team's competences and develop them deliberately.
Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Management
Once you pass, you receive the official ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Management certificate. The syllabus states explicitly that it is valid for life and does not require renewal.
Certification terms istqb.org ↗
Examination
ISTQB CTAL-TM examination
50Questions
- Working time
- 120 min
- Pass mark
- 58 / 88
- Format
- Multiple Choice
- Conditions
- Closed Book
The examination is administered by our exam partners iSQI and Brightest, not by tecnovy. The questions are scenario-based and worth one, two or three points depending on their cognitive level, which is why 50 questions come to 88 points. If you do not sit the exam in your native language you can apply for 25 percent more time; the application has to be in at least one week before the exam date.
Official examination rules istqb.org ↗Proof of attendance
Certificate of participation
≥80%attendance
The tecnovy certificate of participation records your attendance of the CTAL-TM training, not a passed ISTQB examination.
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What is included – and what is not
Included
- Free eBook for the seminarIncluded in the seminar price for every participant.
Not included
- Fee for the ISTQB certification examinationThe exam fee is charged by the exam partner, not by tecnovy: CHF 300 excl. VAT, around EUR 320. The euro amount is converted at the daily rate and shown in the booking step.
Trainers
Why tecnovy
What you get on top with us
01
Certification Guarantee
We have an impressive pass rate on the certification exam, so we're pretty confident you'll pass the exam on the first try. However, we're giving you the 2nd try for free. Promised!
02
Certificate Showroom
Get your certificate of participation and, if you have one, add your exam certificate from E-Learning. Fully automated, beautifully designed. Just for you, only at tecnovy.
03
Flexible Date Change
If you are not able to attend the course, you can rebook your training free of charge up to one week before the start of the training.
04
Attend Twice, Pay Once
You are welcome to visit the training course online again within a year as a refresher or exam preparation.
05
No Slideshow, Hands-On!
Promised: no PowerPoint marathon. We work in groups, tie theory to practice, and you get real project examples from our experienced trainers plus the exchange with like-minded people.
06
Learn from Experts
We always guarantee you the use of didactically and methodically first-class qualified trainers who draw their knowledge from training experience as well as professional practical and project experience.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
01What do I need in order to sit the CTAL-TM examination?
You need the ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level certificate, and nothing else. The syllabus additionally recommends around six months of hands-on testing or development, but the German Testing Board's admission rules do not require it. A recommendation and a condition are two different things here.
02How is the CTAL-TM examination structured?
The CTAL-TM exam is 50 scenario-based multiple-choice questions in 120 minutes, and you pass from 58 of 88 points. Questions are worth one, two or three points depending on their cognitive level, and pure recall questions at the lowest level do not appear at Advanced Level at all.
03Is the examination part of the tecnovy CTAL-TM training?
No. The tecnovy CTAL-TM training prepares you for the examination, which is administered by our exam partners iSQI and Brightest. You add it during registration; it is not part of the seminar price.
04Does CTAL-TM cover test management at organisational level?
No, and the syllabus says so explicitly: CTAL-TM covers test management at project level. Topics such as defect detection percentage belong to ISTQB Expert Level, and the model variants of the four competence areas sit outside it as well.
05CTFL also has a chapter called "Managing the Test Activities". What is different here?
The depth. CTFL gives the topic 335 minutes of instruction and stays at an overview of planning, risk analysis and defect management. CTAL-TM gives the same topic 750 minutes and goes into hybrid development models, test process improvement along IDEAL, and the evaluation of tools.
06Does CTAL-TM fit if we work in an agile way?
Yes. Syllabus 3.0 treats test management in hybrid development models as a topic in its own right and gives defect management in agile teams its own section. The tecnovy CTAL-TM training does not assume a purely sequential project.
07Why does the CTAL-TM training run for five days?
The syllabus sets a minimum of 22.75 hours of instruction for accredited courses across three chapters, the first of which alone takes 750 minutes. The tecnovy CTAL-TM training gives that five days, Monday to Friday.
What does your training at tecnovy look like?
CTAL-TMCTAL-TM - Advanced Level Test Management
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