Certified Tester Acceptance Testing (CT-AcT)

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Course overview

The ISTQB Certified Tester Acceptance Testing (CT-AcT) course introduces you to the principles and practices of acceptance testing. Designed for software testing professionals, it equips you with the skills to contribute to successful software delivery.

Gain a foundational understanding of acceptance testing with the Acceptance Testing Foundation course

The course explores the essential concepts of acceptance testing, offering practical tools and techniques to enhance your skills and help you excel in your role. It helps foster collaboration between developers, testers, and stakeholders, ensuring high-quality software outcomes.

Learning objectives

Support acceptance test design to align products with business needs
Ensure products meet requirements through validation and verification processes
Enhance acceptance testing quality by contributing to structured testing activities
Define acceptance criteria during the requirements phase for clarity
Collaborate effectively with business analysts and key stakeholders
Understand business objectives to align testing with organisational goals
Facilitate communication between testing teams and business units
Share and maintain common objectives across all acceptance testing activities

What you'll learn

Discover how to confidently apply acceptance testing techniques in practical settings, helping to improve software quality and team collaboration. You’ll explore key principles, testing frameworks, and Agile integration, enabling you to drive successful outcomes in any software project, such as identifying and resolving critical defects early in the development cycle and ensuring the software meets user expectations.

Acceptance testing explained

Acceptance testing plays a critical role in quality assurance as it ensures that the software meets your business’s needs and user expectations, by validating functionality against requirements. The ISTQB Certified Tester Acceptance Testing (CT-AcT) course teaches you the skills and techniques to perform this key testing phase effectively and efficiently.

Validation and verification processes

Explores essential validation and verification techniques, such as reviewing requirements for completeness, performing test case reviews, and verifying artefacts against business objectives. These practices will help to ensure software meets both technical and stakeholder expectations.

Tailoring testing processes to business goals

Learn to align testing activities with organisational goals, ensuring software meets technical and business expectations. This approach helps you drive efficiencies, and improve stakeholder satisfaction, while enhancing collaboration, streamlining development, and delivering successful outcomes.

What's included

Accredited ISTQB Certified Tester Acceptance Testing (CT-AcT) training
All accompanying course material
ISTQB Certified Tester Acceptance Testing exam
Further optional extras, including Pass Protect, available at checkout

Key facts

Certification

Certified Tester Acceptance Testing (CT-AcT)

Who it’s for

This course is ideal for testers, analysts, engineers, and quality assurance professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of acceptance testing principles and practices.

Prerequisites

You need to hold an ISTQB Foundation certificate. It is also recommended that you read the provided Syllabus in preparation for the course.

Exam information

60 minutes, 40 multiple-choice questions, closed book, 65% pass mark. See FAQs for guidance on booking your exam.

Optional extras

Pass Protect

Pre-course

There is no pre-course work for this training course.

FAQs

The ISTQB Certified Tester Acceptance Testing course will teach you key acceptance testing principles and practices to ensure software meets business requirements and stakeholder expectations effectively.

What does the ISTQB Certified Tester Acceptance Testing (CT-AcT) course cover?

You will learn acceptance testing fundamentals, its role in software development, creating and managing acceptance tests, and understanding test criteria.

Why should I take this course?

Certifying in ISTQB Certified Tester Acceptance Testing enhances your credibility, validates your skills, and demonstrates your ability to ensure software aligns with business requirements, boosting career prospects and organisational impact.

How do I book my exam?

You’ll receive a Pearson VUE exam voucher to book your exam at a convenient time and location. There are Pearson VUE centres worldwide, and you’ll be able to choose the closest testing centre to you. Ensure to take the test before the voucher’s expiration date and take your photo ID on the day.

What are the career opportunities in software acceptance testing?

Software acceptance testing provides you with career opportunities in roles such as test analyst, quality assurance specialist, or business analyst. A career in software acceptance testing is valuable because it ensures software meets critical business needs, improves product quality, and fosters collaboration between stakeholders, and plays a key role in successful project delivery and business success.

What our customers say

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