In today's IT world, cross-functional teams are expected to quickly deliver business value with the right quality. TMAP® supports this new way of working on “built-in quality” that goes beyond testing only.
Performing QA and testing activities in an organization requires a wide range of knowledge and skills. This training supports professionals in these operational activities.
This training is based on the book “Quality for DevOps teams” and the TMAP® body-of-knowledge on www.tmap.net.
What will you learn?
During this training the following QA & test topics will be covered:
- Performing QA and test topics, such as:
- Drafting and interpreting reports & adequate alerting
- Infrastructure quality verification
- Metrics & continuous improvement based on the Deming cycle
- Acceptance criteria according to the Gherkin syntax
- Performing informal reviews
- Test data management, choices to be made and techniques for dealing with personalized data
- Testing strategy based on quality risks
- Continuous testing & test automation
- Deriving test varieties from quality attributes (maintainability, mutation testing, and more)
- Setting up code according to 'clean architecture' principles
- The value of Unit Test principles
- Test design techniques and approaches:
- Data combination test
- State transition test
- Semantic test and elementary comparison test
- Checklist
- Code coverage types
- Static code analysis
- Review and pull requests
- Deepening topics from "TMAP: Quality for cross-functional teams", such as:
- IT delivery models, especially DevOps and Scrum
- The VOICE model
- Monitoring & control of indicators
- Quality engineering activities & tooling in the CI/CD pipeline
- Quality measures such as Test Driven Development, Specification and Example, Feature toggles
- Test execution & investigation and assessment of results
- Preparation for the exam by means of sample exam questions for each learning objective and a sample exam
What are you going to do?
The training allows you to gain experience with these topics through short introductions followed by relevant exercises, leaving plenty of room for sharing experiences between the participants.
Who is this training suitable for?
This training is for all people who work in or with high-performance IT delivery teams (such as DevOps and Scrum) who are responsible for or heavily involved in quality engineering such as QA professionals, testers and administrators.
Other relevant roles are business analysts, product owners, developers, users, scrum masters, agile coaches, release train engineers, etc.
What prior knowledge do you need?
This training requires basic knowledge about information technology, working in teams and an Agile way of working. No specific certifications are required, but we strongly recommend that you first obtain the certificate “TMAP: Quality for cross-functional teams” .
Exam information
The exam “TMAP®: High-performance quality engineering” contains 40 multiple choice questions and takes 1.5 hours.
The exam of €235.00 is part of the course price. Any discount does not apply to exam costs.
If you want order a re-exam, you can do so here.
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Review
"A very broad and diverse set of tools to better handle testing within teams in practice."
- Anonymous (November 2023)
"It was well structured and had the right amount of exercises. I enjoyed that and had some insights for my current project
- Milena (August 2024)
"Huge amount of knowledge and useful material, up to date content and many topics that are beyond the common understanding of a tester's role like infrastructure and CI/CD. One of the best trainers I have ever met!"
- Magdalena (August 2024)