ISTQB Advanced Technical Test Analyst

1. Recognise and classify the typical risks associated with the performance, security, reliability, portability and maintainability of software systems.

2. Create test plans which detail the planning, design and execution of tests for mitigating performance, security, reliability, portability and maintainability risks.

3. Select and apply appropriate structural design techniques to ensure that tests provide adequate level of confidence, based upon code coverage and design coverage.

Techniques include:
a. Statement coverage
b. Decision coverage
c. Condition coverage
d. Modified condition coverage
e. Multiple condition coverage
f. Basis path coverage and
g. API coverage

4. Effectively participate in technical reviews with developers and software architects applying knowledge of typical mistakes made in code and architecture.

5. Recognise risks in code and software architecture and create test plan elements to mitigate those risks through dynamic analysis.

6. Propose improvements to the security, maintainability and testability of code by applying static analysis.

7. Outline the costs and benefits to be expected from introducing particular types of test automation.

8. Select appropriate tools to automate technical testing tasks.

9. Understand the technical issues and concepts in applying test automation, this includes specific issues relating to the use of open-source and custom-built tools as well as issues surrounding the different automation techniques.

The ISTQB Advanced TTA exam is a 2-hour multiple choice exam with the pass mark being 65%. There is an extra 30 minutes allowed for candidates whose first language is not English. You must hold the ISTQB Foundation certificate in software testing in order to sit this exam.