Effective test automation in practice

This course will teach effective test automation in practice. A lot of test automation attempts fail due to a range of different circumstances.

The setup is a mix of theory with a lot of practical exercises.

What you'll learn

After this course you will be able to start assessing good approaches for long term test automation.

You will have enough skills to actually start implementing robust tests that require a minimum of maintenance.

This course can be adapted to both Java, Javascript, or .NET/C#, and will use an appropriate HTTP Client for this environment, and Selenium for web based testing.
A walkthrough of some of the most common test automation tools and concepts is included, but exercises are limited to Selenium and a relevant HTTP client.

Scope

This course teaches both the basics of test automation on the API and GUI level as well as general things to think of while introducing test automation.

• Test automation introduction: When, How, What, Why
• The test automation vocabulary
• Handling test runners (JUnit, NUnit, or MS Test) initializers, teardowns and asserts
• JSON and XML: What any tester should know
• Test automation concepts to be aware of
• Understanding REST services
• Creating API level tests
• Logging test results and debugging failing tests
• Test tool fauna walk-through
• Understanding the web browser and browser based systems
• Creating GUI based testing
• Theoretical section on non-web based GUI testing
• When to use what automation approach
• Tricks of the trade

Pre-requisits

This course will involve a lot of coding. However, this is not a programming course.
Attendees are expected to understand basic programming concepts, like; objects, classes, fields/properties, methods, arguments, and variable scopes.

Course meta information

The course will include lunch together both course days as well as regular fika breaks.

Course materials will be distributed to attendees.

Target audience

This course target people with the intention of learning to actually start doing robust test automation.

This is a very fast paced course. The scope is huge and it will be a few intense days.

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