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ISTQB Foundation Level Agile Tester Certification Course — ShiftSync by Tricentis. Free course. 45 chapters. Certificate awarded upon scoring 90% or higher on the final quiz. Topics covered: Agile fundamentals, Agile Manifesto, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean, Extreme Programming, whole team approach, continuous integration, release planning, sprint planning, retrospectives, user story creation, INVEST principles, 3C model, TDD, BDD, ATDD, test pyramid, testing quadrants, exploratory testing, black box testing, regression risk management, quality risk assessment, planning poker, effort estimation, task management tools (Jira, Trello), communication tools (Confluence, Slack, Teams, Zoom), configuration management, cloud computing, virtualization, AI fundamentals, generative AI, large language models, RAG, Tricentis qTest Copilot, DevOps, CI/CD, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Agentic AI, Tricentis Tosca, Tricentis Analytics. Chapters: 1. Fundamentals of Agile, 2. Agile Manifesto, 3. Whole Team Approach, 4. Early and Frequent Feedback, 5. Aspects of Agile Approaches, 6. Agile Software Development Approaches, 7. Collaborative User Story Creation, 8. Retrospectives, 9. Continuous Integration, 10. Release and Iteration Planning, 11. Differences Between Testing in Traditional and Agile Approaches, 12. Differences in Testing Activities, 13. Differences in Project Work Products, 14. Differences in Test Levels, 15. Communicating Test Status, Progress, and Product Quality, 16. Managing Regression Risk in Agile Projects, 17. Agile Tester Skills, 18. Role of a Tester in Agile Teams, 19. Agile Testing Methods: TDD, ATDD, and BDD, 20. The Test Pyramid, 21. Testing Quadrants: Test Levels and Testing Types, 22. Assessing Quality Risks in Agile Projects, 23. Estimating Testing Effort Based on Content and Risk, 24. Applying Acceptance Test-Driven Development, 25. Functional and Non-Functional Black Box Test Design in Agile Projects, 26. Exploratory Testing in Agile Projects, 27. Tools in Agile Projects: Task Management and Tracking Tools, 28. Tools in Agile Projects: Communication and Information Sharing Tools, 29. Tools in Agile Projects: Software Build and Distribution Tools, 30. Tools in Agile Projects: Configuration Management Tools, 31. Tools in Agile Projects: Test Design, Implementation, and Execution Tools, 32. Tools in Agile Projects: Cloud Computing and Virtualization Tools, 33. Fundamentals of AI and Generative AI for Agile Testers, 34. Hands-on Exercise: Create Tests with GenAI — Tricentis qTest Copilot Features for Agile Testers, 35. Introduction to DevOps — Enhancing Agile Testing with Tricentis Products, 36. MCP and Agentic AI Overview — Leveraging Tricentis qTest AI Features for Agile Testing Success, 37-44. Sample Exams 1–8, 45. Conclusion.

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1. Fundamentals of Agile

In this chapter, you will learn the fundamentals of Agile Software Development — what it is, how it differs from traditional models like Waterfall, and why it enables faster, more collaborative delivery. You'll explore key concepts such as iterative development, sprints, and Scrum, and understand the essential role of testers within Agile teams. Watch now

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2. Agile Manifesto

In this chapter, you will explore the Agile Manifesto — its origins, core values, and twelve guiding principles. You'll learn how these principles shape modern development practices, emphasizing collaboration, flexibility, continuous delivery, and customer satisfaction across Agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban. Watch now

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3. Whole Team Approach

In this chapter, you will learn about the whole team approach in Agile — how cross-functional teams collaborate to deliver software effectively. You'll understand the importance of shared responsibility, breaking silos, and making quality a collective effort, as well as concepts like the "power of three" and the benefits of strong team collaboration. Watch now

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4. Early and Frequent Feedback

In this chapter, you will learn why early and frequent feedback is essential in Agile development. You'll explore how regular demos and stakeholder involvement help uncover misunderstandings, refine priorities, and identify issues early — ensuring the product evolves in line with real user needs. Watch now

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5. Aspects of Agile Approaches

In this chapter, you will get an overview of key Agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, and Lean, along with the common practices they share. You'll learn about essential activities such as user story creation, sprint planning, continuous integration, and iterative delivery — setting the foundation for deeper exploration in the next chapters. Watch now

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6. Agile Software Development Approaches

In this chapter, you will explore key Agile approaches such as Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming. You'll learn how each framework applies Agile principles in practice, their core concepts, roles, and differences — helping you understand when and where to use each approach effectively. Watch now

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7. Collaborative User Story Creation

In this chapter, you will learn how user stories are created collaboratively in Agile teams to capture product requirements. You'll explore the standard user story format, the 3C model (Card, Conversation, Confirmation), and the INVEST principles — helping you write clear, valuable, and testable user stories. Watch now

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8. Retrospectives

In this chapter, you will learn how retrospectives help Agile teams continuously improve. You'll explore how teams reflect on what went well, identify challenges, and define actionable improvements after each sprint — ensuring better processes, collaboration, and efficiency over time. Watch now

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9. Continuous Integration

In this chapter, you will learn how Continuous Integration (CI) enables Agile teams to build, test, and deliver software faster. You'll explore how automated pipelines, code repositories, and CI/CD tools help integrate changes frequently, detect issues early, and support rapid, reliable development cycles. Watch now

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10. Release and Iteration Planning

In this chapter, you will learn how Agile teams plan work at both the release and sprint levels. You'll explore how release planning defines high-level goals and priorities, while iteration (sprint) planning breaks them down into actionable tasks — ensuring efficient delivery aligned with team capacity and business value. Watch now

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11. Differences Between Testing in Traditional and Agile Approaches

In this chapter, you will compare how testing differs between traditional models (like Waterfall and V-Model) and Agile approaches. You'll understand key differences in workflows, documentation, feedback cycles, and customer involvement — helping you choose the right approach based on project needs and context. Watch now

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12. Differences in Testing Activities

In this chapter, you will explore how testing activities differ between traditional and Agile approaches. You'll learn how Agile integrates testing throughout each sprint, emphasizes collaboration and automation, and shifts quality ownership to the entire team — compared to the late, separate, and documentation-heavy testing phase in traditional models. Watch now

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13. Differences in Project Work Products

In this chapter, you will learn how project documentation differs between traditional and Agile approaches. You'll explore how traditional methods rely on extensive, template-driven documentation, while Agile focuses on lightweight, value-driven work products — documenting only what is necessary to support development and deliver customer value. Watch now

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14. Differences in Test Levels

In this chapter, you will learn how test levels differ between traditional and Agile approaches. You'll understand how Agile enables overlapping test levels within each sprint — including unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing — allowing teams to test continuously rather than in sequential phases. Watch now

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15. Communicating Test Status, Progress, and Product Quality

In this chapter, you will learn how Agile teams communicate testing progress and product quality. You'll explore key tools and practices such as daily stand-ups, task boards, burndown charts, dashboards, and customer feedback — ensuring transparency, alignment, and continuous improvement across the team. Watch now

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16. Managing Regression Risk in Agile Projects

In this chapter, you will learn how to manage growing regression risks in Agile environments. You'll explore strategies such as maintaining an efficient regression suite, implementing test automation, and leveraging in-sprint automation and AI tools — ensuring scalable and reliable testing as your product evolves. Watch now

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17. Agile Tester Skills

In this chapter, you will learn the essential technical and behavioral skills required to succeed as an Agile tester. You'll explore key areas such as test automation, AI-enabled testing, TDD/BDD approaches, and strong collaboration, communication, and adaptability skills needed to thrive in fast-paced Agile teams. Watch now

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18. Role of a Tester in Agile Teams

In this chapter, you will learn about the role of a tester within Agile teams. You'll understand how testers contribute across the entire development lifecycle — from requirement analysis to automation and collaboration — ensuring quality is built into the product through shared responsibility and continuous involvement. Watch now

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19. Agile Testing Methods: TDD, ATDD, and BDD

In this chapter, you will learn about key Agile testing methods — Test-Driven Development (TDD), Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD), and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). You'll understand how each approach uses tests to guide development, their differences in collaboration and focus, and how they help improve quality by defining requirements and expected behavior upfront. Watch now

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20. The Test Pyramid

In this chapter, you will learn about the Test Pyramid — a key concept that guides effective testing in Agile projects. You'll understand why most tests should be concentrated at the unit and integration levels, with fewer UI tests at the top, enabling faster execution, better defect detection, and more maintainable test automation. Watch now

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21. Testing Quadrants: Test Levels and Testing Types

In this chapter, you will learn about Agile testing quadrants — a framework that helps you map test levels and testing types effectively. You'll understand how testing is distributed across four quadrants (Q1–Q4), balancing automation, functional, exploratory, and non-functional testing to ensure comprehensive product quality. Watch now

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22. Assessing Quality Risks in Agile Projects

In this chapter, you will learn how to identify and assess quality risks in Agile projects. You'll explore how teams analyze risks during release and iteration planning, evaluate their impact and likelihood, and prioritize testing efforts accordingly — ensuring potential issues are mitigated before they affect the end user. Watch now

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23. Estimating Testing Effort Based on Content and Risk

In this chapter, you will learn how Agile teams estimate testing effort using techniques like Planning Poker. You'll understand how effort is evaluated based on user story complexity, testing scope, and associated risks — enabling teams to reach consensus-driven, realistic estimates for each sprint. Watch now

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24. Applying Acceptance Test-Driven Development

This chapter explains how ATDD is used in agile projects to align development with business needs. It covers the difference between TDD and ATDD and outlines the four-step cycle — Discuss, Distill, Develop, and Demo — showing how teams define requirements, create test cases, build features, and validate them through feedback. Watch now

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25. Functional and Non-Functional Black Box Test Design in Agile Projects

This chapter explains that core black box testing techniques from ISTQB Foundation are applied the same way in agile projects, using them to design functional and non-functional test cases for user stories based on acceptance criteria. Watch now

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26. Exploratory Testing in Agile Projects

This chapter explains the role of exploratory testing in agile projects, where limited time and incomplete user story details make it especially valuable. It describes how testing and learning happen simultaneously, guided by time-boxed sessions and test charters, allowing testers to explore the system, uncover issues, and document findings dynamically to improve overall product quality. Watch now

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27. Tools in Agile Projects: Task Management and Tracking Tools

This chapter explains how task management and tracking tools are used in agile projects to record and monitor work items such as user stories, tasks, and bugs. It highlights how tools like Jira or Trello provide visual boards, workflows, and dashboards to track progress, manage estimates, and support seamless collaboration and delivery within a sprint. Watch now

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28. Tools in Agile Projects: Communication and Information Sharing Tools

This chapter explains the importance of communication and information sharing tools in agile projects, highlighting tools like Confluence for documentation and Slack, Teams, or Zoom for collaboration. It shows how these tools enable fast, transparent communication, support distributed teams, and ensure easy access to project knowledge and updates. Watch now

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30. Tools in Agile Projects: Configuration Management Tools

This chapter explains how configuration management tools are used in agile projects to store, version, and track changes in code, test artifacts, and configuration files. It highlights their role in ensuring traceability, maintaining history, and enabling consistent environment setup through automated configuration and version control. Watch now

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31. Tools in Agile Projects: Test Design, Implementation, and Execution Tools

This chapter explains the range of tools used in agile projects to support test design, management, data preparation, and execution. It highlights how these tools help automate test case creation, manage testing activities, generate test data, and execute tests efficiently, with increasing support from AI to accelerate testing and enable more focus on exploratory testing. Watch now

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32. Tools in Agile Projects: Cloud Computing and Virtualization Tools

This chapter explains how cloud computing and virtualization support agile projects by enabling flexible and scalable environments. It describes how virtualization allows multiple environments on a single physical server, while cloud computing provides on-demand access to external infrastructure, helping teams quickly create, manage, and test applications across different platforms without heavy hardware maintenance. Watch now

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33. Fundamentals of AI and Generative AI for Agile Testers

In this chapter, you will learn what artificial intelligence and generative AI are, how large language models and RAG work, and how these technologies can be applied to improve your agile software testing workflows. Watch now

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34. Hands-on Exercise: Create Tests with GenAI — Tricentis qTest Copilot Features for Agile Testers

In this chapter, you will see generative AI in action as a testing assistant — from prompting a large language model to generate test scenarios from a user story, to exploring how Tricentis qTest Copilot brings these capabilities into a secure, enterprise-ready environment. Watch now

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35. Introduction to DevOps — Enhancing Agile Testing with Tricentis Products

In this chapter, you will learn what DevOps is, why it matters for agile delivery, and how Tricentis tools — including Tosca, qTest, and Tricentis Analytics — support key DevOps activities like CI/CD integration, automated test execution, and release quality monitoring. Watch now

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36. MCP & Agentic AI Overview — Leveraging Tricentis qTest AI Features for Agile Testing Success

In this chapter, you will learn what Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agentic AI are, and how Tricentis qTest uses both to automatically sync requirements from Jira, generate test cases, trigger test execution, and log defects — all with minimal manual effort. Watch now

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37. 1. Sample Exam

In this chapter, you will walk through sample ISTQB Foundation Agile Tester exam questions, learning how to apply elimination strategies and identify correct answers on topics like the Agile Manifesto values and the whole team approach to quality. Watch now

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38. 2. Sample Exam

In this chapter, you will work through another set of sample ISTQB Foundation Agile Tester exam questions, practicing the elimination strategy on topics including early feedback in agile, agile framework matching, and the tester's role in iteration planning discussions. Watch now

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39. 3. Sample Exam

In this chapter, you will work through sample ISTQB exam questions on the tester's role in retrospective meetings, what should and should not be raised during retrospectives, and the core principles of continuous integration. Watch now

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40. 4. Sample Exam

In this chapter, you will work through sample ISTQB exam questions covering how user stories are best described, testing practices unique to agile versus traditional development, and which activities and statements are most consistent with agile principles. Watch now

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41. 5. Sample Exam

In this chapter, you will work through sample ISTQB exam questions on independent testing in agile environments, how to best demonstrate product quality mid-release, and which tools most clearly track a team's progress against planned estimates. Watch now

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42. 6. Sample Exam

In this chapter, you will work through sample ISTQB exam questions on managing regression risk when requirements change mid-release, why test automation is essential in agile, the primary benefits of automation, and which responsibilities are most aligned with the agile tester's role. Watch now

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43. 7. Sample Exam

In this chapter, you will work through sample ISTQB exam questions on the boundaries of a tester's role in agile, the false statement about test-driven development, the purpose of the test pyramid, and how to effectively apply testing quadrants within an agile team. Watch now

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44. 8. Sample Exam

In this chapter, you will work through the final set of sample ISTQB exam questions, covering testing quadrant classification, handling automation framework gaps mid-sprint, planning poker best practices, and the definition and purpose of exploratory testing in agile projects. Watch now

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45. Conclusion

This final chapter wraps up the ISTQB Agile Tester course, summarizing key concepts such as agile principles, testing techniques, and estimation methods. It encourages learners to apply their knowledge in real projects and provides guidance on taking the ISTQB Agile Tester exam, along with completing the course quiz to receive a certificate. Watch now

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