Overview
The Ansible Configuration Management Boot Camp discusses the flexibility and power of the Ansible configuration management system. It demonstrates how to use this system to build and scale highly reliable infrastructure for different environments and projects. The course discusses real-world examples to explain how Ansible can be used to manage environments as small as a couple of servers to massively distributed global infrastructure, by using a simple syntax. The course enables participants to have a thorough understanding and intensive hands-on experience of building reliable and easily reproducible infrastructure using Ansible, and teaches how to integrate Ansible into the operations workflow.
What You'll Learn
- Implement advanced test analyst practices into current processes
- Understand the role of the test analyst at each point in the process
- Increase the ability to identify defects
- Improve the effectiveness of test cases
- Learn best techniques for documenting and testing business rules, requirements and use cases
- Understand how to test Agile requirements and user stories
- Determine how to account for and test functional and non-functional software attributes
Curriculum
- Test planning
- Test monitoring and control
- Concrete and logical test cases
- Creation of test cases
- Risk identification
- Risk assessment
- Risk mitigation
- Equivalence partitioning
- Boundary value analysis
- Decision tables
- Cause-effect graphing
- State transition testing
- Combinatorial testing techniques
- Use case testing
- User story testing
- Domain analysis
- Combining techniques
- Using defect-based techniques
- Defect taxonomies
- Error guessing
- Checklist-based testing
- Exploratory testing
- Applying the best techniques
- Accuracy testing
- Suitability testing
- Inter-operability testing
- Usability testing
- Accessibility testing
- Real-world use case: Using Ansible to automate CM and application pipelines through continuous integration, release deployment and operation
- Reviewing environments and processes, and evaluate how to best integrate Ansible’s configuration management for your own needs
- Exercise: Your to-do list
- Test design tools
- Test data preparation tools
- Automated test execution tools
Who should attend
The course is highly recommended for –
- Software testers with at least three years of experience
- Software testers
- Quality Assurance specialists
- Software testing leads
- QA team leads
- Project managers
- Quality managers
- Software product managers
Prerequisites
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Certification
The Advanced Tester certification is ideal for individuals who want to gain a deeper, advanced-level competency in test methodologies and approaches. The certification enables participants to further their existing skills and knowledge to increase test plan and execution proficiency while also providing the necessary qualification for expert-level certifications in test management and test processes.
After completing the prep course, participants need to appear for the ISQTB certification examination, which are organized consistently worldwide. The exam details are as below –
| Exam Name | ISQTB Advanced Tester Certification – Test Analyst |
| Number of questions | 60 |
| Exam duration in native language | 180 minutes |
| Exam duration in non-native language | 225 minutes |
| Exam format | Multiple choice questions, where each question lists a problem and the options are a list of suggested solutions for the problem. It can be a single answer or multiple answer questions.
The exam would also involve participants to consider a scenario and answer several questions based on it. |
| Total exam score | 120 (each question could be awarded 1, 2 or 3 marks depending on their difficulty |
| Passing score | Minimum 78 marks |
