The ISTQB Foundation Acceptance Testing course introduces you to the principles and practices of acceptance testing. Designed for software testing professionals, it equips you with the skills to contribute to successful software delivery.
d5f1e1ce-4ef8-43fa-886f-69d62bfdda8d
Certified Tester Acceptance Testing (CT-AcT)
Select your learning method:
Quote request
Please complete the form to ensure your quote is accurate and we will contact you soon.
Learn essential skills
Course overview
Gain a foundational understanding of acceptance testing with the Acceptance Testing Foundation course
The course explores the essential concepts of acceptance testing, offering practical tools and techniques to enhance your skills and help you excel in your role. It helps foster collaboration between developers, testers, and stakeholders, ensuring high-quality software outcomes.
Learning objectives
- Support acceptance test design to align products with business needs
- Ensure products meet requirements through validation and verification processes
- Enhance acceptance testing quality by contributing to structured testing activities
- Define acceptance criteria during the requirements phase for clarity
- Collaborate effectively with business analysts and key stakeholders
- Understand business objectives to align testing with organisational goals
- Facilitate communication between testing teams and business units
- Share and maintain common objectives across all acceptance testing activities
What you'll learn
Discover how to confidently apply acceptance testing techniques in practical settings, helping to improve software quality and team collaboration. You’ll explore key principles, testing frameworks, and Agile integration, enabling you to drive successful outcomes in any software project, such as identifying and resolving critical defects early in the development cycle and ensuring the software meets user expectations.
Acceptance testing explained
Acceptance testing plays a critical role in quality assurance as it ensures that the software meets your business’s needs and user expectations, by validating functionality against requirements. The ISTQB Foundation Acceptance Testing course teaches you the skills and techniques to perform this key testing phase effectively and efficiently.
Validation and verification processes
Explores essential validation and verification techniques, such as reviewing requirements for completeness, performing test case reviews, and verifying artefacts against business objectives. These practices will help to ensure software meets both technical and stakeholder expectations.
Tailoring testing processes to business goals
Learn to align testing activities with organisational goals, ensuring software meets technical and business expectations. This approach helps you drive efficiencies, and improve stakeholder satisfaction, while enhancing collaboration, streamlining development, and delivering successful outcomes.
What's included
- Accredited ISTQB Foundation Acceptance Testing training
- All accompanying course material
- ISTQB Foundation Acceptance Testing exam
- Further optional extras, including Pass Protect, available at checkout
FAQs
The ISTQB Foundation Acceptance Testing course will teach you key acceptance testing principles and practices to ensure software meets business requirements and stakeholder expectations effectively.
What does the ISTQB Foundation Acceptance Testing course cover?
You will learn acceptance testing fundamentals, its role in software development, creating and managing acceptance tests, and understanding test criteria.
Why should I take this course?
Certifying in ISTQB Foundation Acceptance Testing enhances your credibility, validates your skills, and demonstrates your ability to ensure software aligns with business requirements, boosting career prospects and organisational impact.
How do I book my exam?
You’ll receive a Pearson VUE exam voucher to book your exam at a convenient time and location. There are Pearson VUE centres worldwide, and you’ll be able to choose the closest testing centre to you. Ensure to take the test before the voucher’s expiration date and take your photo ID on the day.
What are the career opportunities in software acceptance testing?
Software acceptance testing provides you with career opportunities in roles such as test analyst, quality assurance specialist, or business analyst. A career in software acceptance testing is valuable because it ensures software meets critical business needs, improves product quality, and fosters collaboration between stakeholders, and plays a key role in successful project delivery and business success.
What our customers say
“The courses are well structured and straight to the point. The user interface is easy to operate from the get go and designed to keep the focus on the learning. I highly recommend using this service for professionals seeking up-skills or for expanding on their current knowledge base."
Gilbert Greich, ILX Learner
“Training with ILX has led to a reduction in skills gaps across the department. Once people start their e-learning they really get the bug, and then start engaging with a lot more of the courses.”
Anthony Gale, L&D Manager for the Project Delivery Professional, Department for Education
Why study with ILX
500,000+
learners
learners
Join the half a million learners developing their skills with our training
5,000+ businesses
A trusted partner to thousands of organisations worldwide
96% customer satisfaction
Our passionate team goes above and beyond to support customer needs
Similar courses
ISTQB
Certified Tester AI Testing (CT-AI)
ISTQB
Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) v4.0
ISTQB
Certified Tester Foundation Level Agile Tester (CTFL-AT)
ISTQB
Certified Tester Model-Based Tester (CT-MBT)
ISTQB
Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Analyst (CTAL-TA)