ISTQBCertified Tester Acceptance Testing
The ISTQB Certified Tester Acceptance Testing (CT-AcT) certification equips you to plan, design, and execute acceptance testing that truly validates business value. It focuses on collaboration between product owners, business analysts, and testers, covering user acceptance, contractual, regulatory, alpha, and beta testing. Earn it to prove you can align software with business needs and drive quality from requirements to release.
360 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
5Domains
15Objectives
84Concepts
360Questions
CT-ACT Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the CT-ACT exam measures.
- Fundamental Relationships
- Role of Business Analysis in Acceptance Testing
- Business Analyst Responsibilities
- Collaboration with Stakeholders
- Acceptance Criteria Definition
- Requirements Traceability
- Communication of Test Results
- Acceptance Criteria Definition
- Acceptance Criteria Characteristics
- Acceptance Criteria Formats
- Acceptance Criteria vs. Acceptance Tests
- Writing Acceptance Criteria from Requirements
- Collaborative Writing of Acceptance Criteria
- Acceptance Criteria Review and Validation
- Acceptance Test Design Techniques
- Black-Box Testing for Acceptance
- State Transition Testing
- Use Case Testing
- Experience-Based Test Design
- Collaborative Test Design
- Traceability of Acceptance Tests
- Prioritization of Acceptance Tests
- Definition and purpose of experience-based testing
- Role of tester experience and intuition
- Exploratory testing in acceptance testing
- Checklist-based testing
- Error guessing
- Attack-based testing
- Integrating experience-based approaches with scripted testing
- Documenting and reporting experience-based testing results
- Business Process Modeling Fundamentals
- Business Process Modeling Notations
- Reading Business Process Models
- Business Rules Definition
- Business Rules Types
- Business Rules Sources
- Modeling Business Rules
- Integration of Processes and Rules
- Business Process Models
- Business Rule Models
- Deriving Acceptance Test Scenarios
- Deriving Acceptance Test Conditions
- Combining Process and Rule Coverage
- Purpose of Business Process Modeling in Acceptance Testing
- Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) Basics
- Identifying Test Scenarios from Process Models
- Mapping Process Steps to Test Conditions
- Using Process Models for Test Coverage Analysis
- Communicating Test Requirements via Process Models
- Non-functional characteristics
- Quality in use
- Relationship between non-functional characteristics and quality in use
- Acceptance testing for non-functional requirements
- Usability Testing Fundamentals
- User Experience (UX) Evaluation
- Usability Metrics
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Usability Test Planning
- Conducting Usability Tests
- Analyzing Usability Test Results
- Reporting Usability Findings
- Accessibility in Usability
- Usability in Acceptance Criteria
- Define performance efficiency
- Identify performance efficiency requirements
- Plan performance efficiency acceptance tests
- Execute performance efficiency acceptance tests
- Analyze performance efficiency test results
- Report performance efficiency acceptance findings
- Security requirements elicitation
- Security risk assessment
- Security test design techniques
- Security acceptance test execution
- Security test result evaluation
- Collaboration in Acceptance Testing
- Communication and Feedback
- Conflict Resolution
- Tools and Techniques for Collaboration
- Collaborative Acceptance Testing Activities
- Tool Support Overview
- Tool Categories
- Tool Selection Criteria
- Tool Integration
- Tool Risks and Limitations
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