Test Automation Fundamentals Workshop

New software is developed and released faster than ever before. It is now a requirement for every business with a digital presence to improve software testing. Test automation will help testers and developers to benefit from the advantages of automated testing, saving time and improving accuracy.

During our 2-day workshop you will:

• Discover the most demanded software testing technologies in the industry
• Receive an overview of the main categories of tools and why you should choose a particular tool
• Learn more about APIs, Postman and Selenium IDE
• Get an insight into the advantages and disadvantages of Test Automation

Course Outline

Agenda Day 1:

Introduction to test automation

• What is an automated test
• Types of automated tests
• Manual vs Automated
• Which tests (not) to automate
• Why start with API testing

Introduction to APIs

• What is an API ?
• REST & SOAP (XML, JSON)
• HTTP Methods and Statuses
• Swagger

Introduction to Postman

• First steps
• GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
• Write a test
  • Check HTTP codes
  • Check content
• Run the tests
• Manage test data

Reporting

Agenda Day 2:

Day 1 reminder

Web test automation

• Pros and cons
• Beware of maintainability

Selenium IDE

• Introduction
• Writing a first test
• Assertions
• Waits
• Loops
• Conditions
• Embedded scripts

Agile and Test Automation

• When to start?
• Get up to speed when automation starts too late
• Sprint by Sprint

Extra links to continue learning

Pre-Requisites

• To attend this course, you need basic testing knowledge
• No programming knowledge is required
• Don’t forget to bring your laptop for the exercises