The ISTQB Certified Usability Testing Foundation Level (CTFL-UT) is an entry-level certification that builds your usability testing skills and signals your competence to employers. It suits testers expanding into usability, those aiming to specialize, and professionals in usability engineering seeking deeper testing knowledge.
Usability evaluation and validation of the product are key activities for usability testers, moderators, note-takers, and other stakeholders. Their work includes defining and referencing usability requirements, planning and scripting usability tests, creating representative tasks, and applying both formative and summative evaluations across agile and non-agile lifecycles. Sessions often use techniques such as think-aloud to understand user behavior, and the results are analyzed and communicated to stakeholders. Within a human-centered, iterative design process, these activities aim to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction while addressing typical product and project risks before release.
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ISTQB Usability Testing Certification can give you the ability to:
Understand Understand the basic concepts of usability and usability testing. | Identify Identify and classify the severity of usability risks and potential accessibility violations in a given product at any stage of the development cycle. | Cite Cite relevant standards for usability, user experience, and accessibility, and verify their implementation in a given product. |
Set up Set up procedures so that stated usability, user experience, and accessibility goals may be verified in practice for a given product. | Design Design and monitor the implementation of a test plan for achieving stated usability, user experience, and accessibility goals. | Explain Explain the rationale, process, and results of usability, user experience, and accessibility evaluations to non-specialist stakeholders. |
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Business analysts and product owners will be able to apply what they have learned for the ISTQB Usability Testing Certification to:
- Participate in planning and execution of usability evaluation, provide input on usability requirements, help resolve differing opinions, and support whole-team collaboration in agile contexts.
- Contribute to stakeholder involvement by joining risk assessments, reviewing the usability test plan, scripts, and tasks, helping define participant profiles, observing sessions, and reviewing the usability test report.
- Ensure alignment with usability requirements during planning and reporting so decisions are based on clearly stated objectives and required characteristics.
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Testers and QA Analysts will be able to apply what they have learned for the ISTQB Usability Testing Certification to:
- Organize and participate in usability risk assessment and write a usability test plan.
- Prepare and run usability test sessions by creating scripts, briefing instructions, interviews, and tasks, and by moderating sessions and communicating with participants.
- Apply formative and summative evaluation approaches and appropriate techniques such as think-aloud, surveys, and reviews.
Everyone involved in software usability testing activities – not just full-time testers – should have ISTQB Usability Testing Certification (ISTQB CTFL-UT). This includes:
- Software Developers
- Product Owners
- Business Analysts
- QA Analysts
- Test Analysts
- Test Engineers
- Test Consultants
- Test Management
- User Acceptance Testers
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ISTQB Usability Testing Exam Format
40 questions | 60 minutes (75 minutes if English is not your primary language)
ISTQB Usability Testing Prerequisites
ISTQB Foundation Level
