ISTQBCertified Tester Advanced Level Agile Tester
The ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Agile Tester (CTAL-AT) certification validates the skills of experienced testers working in Agile environments. It covers Agile test strategy, whole-team collaboration, shift-left approaches, and modern testing techniques. Earning it demonstrates your ability to deliver fast, continuous feedback that supports business value in Agile and DevOps contexts.
481 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
6Domains
17Objectives
122Concepts
481Questions
CTAL-AT Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the CTAL-AT exam measures.
- Test Types in Agile
- Role of Test Types in Agile
- Selecting Test Types
- Test Types and Test Levels
- Test Types and Quality Risks
- Define end-to-end testing
- Identify end-to-end testing scope
- Design end-to-end test scenarios
- Integrate end-to-end testing in agile
- Manage end-to-end test data
- Handle environment dependencies
- Automate end-to-end tests
- Evaluate end-to-end test results
- Formal Testing Definition
- Holistic Testing Definition
- Comparing Formal and Holistic Testing
- Applying Formal Testing in Agile
- Applying Holistic Testing in Agile
- Balancing Formal and Holistic Testing
- Regression Test Selection
- Regression Test Prioritization
- Regression Test Automation
- Impact Analysis for Regression
- Regression Test Maintenance
- Whole Team Approach Definition
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Collaboration and Communication
- Shared Ownership of Quality
- Impact on Testing Activities
- Benefits and Challenges
- Role of fresh-eyes testers
- Benefits of fresh-eyes testing
- Challenges of fresh-eyes testing
- Integrating fresh-eyes testers into Agile teams
- Collaboration with fresh-eyes testers
- Agile Test Planning Principles
- Agile Test Planning Levels
- Release Test Planning
- Iteration Test Planning
- Daily Test Planning
- Risk-Based Test Estimation
- Test Plan Documentation
- Test Planning in Release and Iteration Contexts
- Test Monitoring Metrics
- Test Reporting
- Test Control Actions
- Burn-down and Burn-up Charts
- Velocity and Throughput
- Defect Metrics
- Test Coverage Monitoring
- Risk-Based Monitoring
- Continuous Improvement
- Test reporting purpose and audience
- Test report content and structure
- Metrics for test reporting
- Interpreting and presenting test results
- Agile test reporting practices
- Continuous improvement of test reporting
- Understand the purpose of test process improvement
- Identify improvement opportunities in agile testing
- Apply the Agile Test Improvement Model
- Use retrospectives for process improvement
- Measure and analyze test process effectiveness
- Implement and track improvement actions
- Shift Left Definition
- Test Basis Quality
- Early Involvement in Test Basis
- Static Testing Techniques
- Collaborative Practices
- Definition of Ready
- Feedback Loops
- Shift Left Principles
- Requirements Engineering in Agile
- User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
- Collaborative Requirements Elicitation
- Definition of Ready
- Impact of Ambiguous Requirements
- Testable Requirements
- Early Test Design
- Requirements Traceability
- Continuous Feedback on Requirements
- Exploratory Testing Definition
- Exploratory Testing vs Scripted Testing
- Exploratory Testing in Agile Context
- Test Charters
- Session-Based Testing
- Heuristics and Oracles
- Exploratory Testing Techniques
- Tools for Exploratory Testing
- Integrating Exploratory Testing with Other Test Activities
- Reporting and Communicating Exploratory Testing Results
- Assisted Testing Definition
- Types of Assisted Testing
- Roles in Assisted Testing
- Benefits and Challenges
- Applying Assisted Testing
- Definition of Test Smells
- Common Test Smells
- Impact of Test Smells
- Causes of Test Smells
- Detection of Test Smells
- Refactoring Test Smells
- Test Automation Benefits and Challenges in Agile
- Test Automation Strategy in Agile
- Test Automation Framework Selection
- Test Automation in Continuous Integration
- Test Automation Pyramid in Agile
- Maintaining and Evolving Test Automation
- Metrics for Test Automation
- Test Automation Roles and Responsibilities
- Test Automation and Non-Functional Testing
- Test Automation for Exploratory Testing
- Role of test tools in Agile
- Tool selection criteria
- Automation of regression tests
- Tools for test management and tracking
- Tools for continuous integration and delivery
- Tools for exploratory testing
- Tools for performance and load testing
- Tools for unit and component testing
- Tools for behavior-driven development
- Challenges and risks of tool adoption
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