Scripting for Testers (2018)

Course details

Scripting can expand your abilities as a tester and help you keep up with the pace of agile. It allows you to more quickly and efficiently find software issues and automate manual tasks such as reporting and test site preparation. This course examines a few ways to use scripts to solve common challenges faced in the fast-paced world of software testing. Follow along and learn how to navigate and test APIs, generate reports, explore products with web automation tools, generate dummy data for testing, and more. The lessons rely on simple Python-based scripts as well as popular testing tools such as Google Sheets and Selenium WebDriver. Instructor Dave Westerveld provides concrete examples and ideas to increase your productivity, eliminate boring tasks, build new insights into products, and standardize and simplify your team's work.

Learning objectives
Driving API calls with scripting
API authentication
Parsing API data
Automating reports with Google APIs
Using the Google Charts and Sheets APIs
Preparing test sites with Selenium WebDriver
Analyzing test data with scripting
Generating pseudo input data for testing

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know

1. Driving API Interactions with Scripting

03 - REST API calls from Python
04 - Authentication
05 - Analyzing the data - Parsing data
06 - Challenge - Find duplicate URLs
07 - Solution - Find duplicate URLs
08 - Alternative tools for API scripting

2. Automate Report Generation Using Google APIs

09 - Gathering data
10 - Using Google Chart API
11 - Challenge - Create column chart
12 - Solution - Create column chart
13 - Create a Google Sheets service account
14 - Using Google Sheets API
15 - Challenge - Simple test report webpage
16 - Solution - Simple test report webpage

3. Automate Test Site Preparation with Selenium WebDriver

17 - Getting started with Selenium
18 - Selenium navigation
19 - Checking data with Selenium
20 - Initial page setup

4. Putting It Together Examples

21 - Analyze test data
22 - Generate and use input data

Conclusion

23 - Next steps

Scripting for Testers (2018)

Authors

Dave Westerveld