Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester

Learners can explore a foundational overview of DevOps testing, including best practices; key software testing strategies; how software testing has evolved with the adoption of DevOps movement; and key terms and concepts specific to DevOps testing and operations in this 13-video course. Begin by studying key concepts underpinning DevOps software development and deployment, then key principles behind the DevOps movement represented by the acronym CALMS (Collaboration, Automation, Lean, Measurement, and Sharing). Examine the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) within a DevOps software development movement, and how Agile started a changing approach to software testing that culminated in DevOps. Explore key concepts of a DevOps pipeline; how DevOps requires a different approach to software testing; testing strategies; and key software testing strategies and techniques in production within DevOps culture. Examine DevOps testing best practices and learn how to use Jira for tracking customer feedback on software use. In the concluding exercise, learners are asked to describe DevOps, the CALMS acronym, and SDLC under DevOps, and list common test strategies and DevOps testing best practice concepts.

This 15-video course explores the DevOps pipeline, including test strategies in a DevOps culture, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and configuration management. Learners will discover how to work with Agile test environments and orchestrate software tests in a DevOps culture. Begin by examining the concept of CI and its benefits; the concept of continuous delivery; the concept of CD; and the concepts of continuous testing and test orchestration in a DevOps testing pipeline. Explore the benefits and challenges related to continuous testing in a DevOps testing pipeline, and then take a look at some of the common tools used in the orchestration of continuous testing in a DevOps environment. Recognize key challenges when automating software testing; learn how to work with Git for code versioning control, and how to work with the CircleCi continuous integration tool. Then observe use of Docker containers for application packaging, and with VirtualBox and Vagrant to provision infrastructure. The concluding exercise involves describing CI, continuous delivery, and testing, and listing benefits of continuous delivery and testing.

Learners will discover key DevOps test tools such as Apache JMeter, Selenium Vagrant, and Chef, in this 13-video course exploring advantages of some tools over others, selection criteria, the role of automation in DevOps culture, and best practices for testing strategy in a DevOps culture. You will begin by examining various types of DevOps testing tools, and key considerations when choosing the right DevOps test tool. Examine the role played by test automation in a DevOps culture; the role that test optimization plays in a DevOps culture; and the importance of collaboration in a DevOps testing workflow. Then explore considerations necessary when generating a testing strategy in a DevOps culture; work with test-driven development tools for automating acceptance tests; work with performance and load testing tools; and work with Selenium to record and export user interactions with a web browser. This leads into working with Vagrant and Chef to create and configure infrastructure, and working with ChefSpec to generate and run unit tests against infrastructure. The concluding exercise focuses on DevOps test tools.

There are several types of software testing tools for testing different aspects of web applications, including web service, REST application programming interface (API), load, and relational database testing. In this 14-video course, learners can explore types of tools along with examples of popular tools. Begin with an overview of software testing tools for testing web applications, web services, system load, and databases. Observe the Selenium test automation tool and its advantages, and learn about web testing with Selenium. Next, take a look at Katalon Studio and the available web, API, and mobile testing modules, then learn how to record and play back a web test with Katalon Studio. Then discover how to create an API test using Katalon Studio. Learners will explore the SoapUI test tool, its features and benefits, and learn how to perform REST API testing by using SOAPUI. Delve into load testing and tools available to perform it, and how to perform load, stress, and endurance testing with NeoLoad. Learn about relational database testing, and conclude by choosing unit testing tools.

Learners can explore the steps to becoming an automated tester and the challenges faced in automated testing in this 14-video course. You will learn about the automated tester mindset and goals of software testing, then examine the test plan for Agile automated testing and Agile testing strategies; compare Agile and DevOps principles; and observe best practices for aligning test automation with both. Discover the reasons why automated testing may not catch all risks, and different types of automated test platforms, including web applications, mobile devices, web service, and data testing. View types of automated testing and goals of each test type, and compare differences between automated and manual testing, pros and cons of each method, and when to use each method. Next, examine automated testing, the automated testing process, and the scope of automated testing, and then look at manual testing plans, test cases, and defect reports. Explore the automated testing framework, framework guidelines, and types of software testing. Finally, examine the best test cases to automate and how and when to test.

This 14-video course examines continuous integration (CI), the purpose of CI, and why it is important for successful software development. Learners will begin with a look at the benefits of using CI and some of the best practices. Next, you will learn about common mistakes that companies make when trying to integrate and utilize CI, and how to avoid making those mistakes. Discover why CI crucial to developing high-quality software systems and increasing customer satisfaction, and understand how CI and automated testing are related and how to create effective automated tests. You will delve into the stages of the CI pipeline and the importance of each phase, and examine the CI pipeline and how to configure it to efficiently run automated tests. You will compare CI, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment and how they are related to each other, and view the features of common continuous integration tools. To conclude the course, you will work with CircleCI, GitHub, and Bamboo for continuous integration.

Final Exam: Software Tester will test your knowledge and application of the topics presented throughout the Software Tester track of the Skillsoft Aspire Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester Journey.

Learners will explore the concept of application programming interfaces (APIs) and their typical lifecycles, in this 15-video course. An API is essentially a software or application intermediary that enables and allows communication between two applications. First, examine the different types of APIs and how they are managed and implemented. Then learn about API management and why it is required in software development; the benefits of proper API management implementation; and the role API management plays in the successful implementation of DevOps practices. You will observe how to implement continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for API management; discover API management best practices; provision and maximize API security; and view API management solution tools. Implement API management with Azure API management; implement API management with Apigee API management; and implement API management with AWS API Gateway. Conclude the course with a look at upcoming trends that are being adopted and tested for API management from the perspective of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Explore unit testing, the key properties of good unit test programs, and learn how to differentiate between unit testing and integration testing in this 16-video. View key components of unit testing frameworks and how they can help developers write and execute tests, and review test results. Learn best practices for writing productive test cases and anti-patterns that should be avoided. Then examine common unit testing tools for testing Java and JavaScript programs; and write and run unit tests with JsUnit and Qunit. Test server-side JavaScript using Mocha and Chai; learn core testing and refactoring techniques for developing testable and maintainable code; and observe guidelines and techniques for managing bugs in tests. Create test cases and test suites with JUnit; explore testing by using TestNG, and recognize the role of unit testing in test automation and use AAA pattern to derive test cases. Conclude the course by recalling benefits of using test automation frameworks in the software delivery lifecycle, and examining features of popular test automation frameworks that can be used to automate test executions.

Explore prominent unit testing patterns, differences between good and bad unit tests, code-driven unit testing frameworks, and other topics in this 14-video course. Begin with a look at Agile testing, focusing on Agile Testing Quadrants, then move on to prominent unit testing patterns and scenarios. Compare good and bad tests and the goals and approaches of writing good unit tests, and compare prominent code-driven unit testing frameworks that can be used to write unit tests in various programming languages. Discover how to implement the AAA unit testing pattern by using JUnit and TestNB, and the need for Test Double and how Dummy, Fake, stub class, and Mock objects are used to facilitate test replacements. Use Mockito application programming interface (API) to implement unit tests, and configure and write JUnit tests to test RESTful APIs with Mocha and Chai. In addition, unit test web services using SOAP UI, and use DBUnit to test data access objects written for database-driven applications. Explore unit testing using test-driven development (TDD) process, and automated testing with JUnit and Selenium.

This 15-video course explores approaches of identifying bad code, designing applications using clean coding principles, and best practices for coding artifacts that meet clean coding standards. Learners begin with a look at the common traits and approaches of identifying code that needs to be cleaned, then learn how to design applications with clean code. Examine coding artifacts and best practices that should be adopted to create artifacts with clean code, and how to write applications that apply clean coding to artifacts such as classes, interfaces, methods, and variable declarations. Explore error handling styles that should be adopted for writing clean code, and manage code errors by adopting clean coding practices. Next, learn about the significance of the united testing F.I.R.S.T principle (Fast, Isolated, Repeatable, Self-validating, and Thorough or Timely), in writing clean tests. View fundamental principles of writing clean code. Also explore the testing strategies for clean code; clean code testing objectives, and writing clean code in Javascript. Learn about the principles of test-driven development (TDD), and finally, how to write code with TDD.

This 14-video course explores containerized testing and the benefits of using Docker for testing. Learners will examine the advantages and disadvantages of using Docker to set up architectures for automated testing. Learn how to configure and integrate GitHub repositories with Docker; test automated builds on Docker Hub by executing tests when code is pushed or committed to GitHub, and configure continuous integration testing environments with Docker and Docker Compose. Delve into Dockerization tests and test environments and learn how to integrate them with test reporting tools. Examine test container features and the prerequisites for setting up test containers, and test container patterns-the patterns used for running tests inside Docker containers. Learn how to use Docker test containers in Java tests; implement containerized testing with Docker; and deploy Selenium Grid by running Selenium Hub and separate nodes for Chrome or Firefox. Selenium Grid integration with Docker and running Selenium scripts for testing is also covered.

Learners can explore design principles, architecture, and essential components of Kubernetes, as well as how Kubernetes helps implement end-to-end software testing, in this 16-video course. You will begin with a detailed look at design principles and architecture behind Kubernetes and the essential components of Kubernetes master and Kubernetes worker. Then you will move on to explore Kubernetes cluster objects and controllers; scaling applications on Kubernetes; and Kubernetes cluster application deployment. Learn how to create single-zone clusters with the default features enabled in Google Kubernetes Engine and create volume resources in the clusters. Discover packaging and executing on Kubernetes Engine; Kubernetes and software testing, the various types of testing that can be automated with Kubernetes, and the advantages of deploying test containers in Kubernetes. Delve into test automation with Kubernetes; automation testing with Selenium Grid and Kubernetes; and setting up test environments by using Selenium Grid, Docker, and Kubernetes. Build test container images; discover end-to-end (E2E) testing with Selenium WebDriver, and deploy test containers in Kubernetes clusters and publish the results.

In this 14-video course, learners will explore the use of Amazon Web Services-based (AWS) environments for automated testing, and the associated advantages and disadvantages. Examine the main AWS development and testing tools, then delve into the best practices for using AWS to set up environments for automated testing, and then learn how to set up an AWS environment for automated testing. You will discover how to use AWS Device Farm for automated testing of iOS and Android applications, and for automated testing of web applications. Work with AWS CodePipeline to automate the build and test phases of continuous delivery processes; AWS CodeBuild to add build and test automation in existing AWS CodePipeline pipelines, and AWS CodeDeploy to validate and debug applications before deploying them. Implement unit testing as a part of AWS CodeStar projects, and AWS CloudFormation to implement infrastructure as Code for automated testing of applications. Finally, learn how to use AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate to automate testing for security and compliance.

Final Exam: QA Specialist will test your knowledge and application of the topics presented throughout the QA Specialist track of the Skillsoft Aspire Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester Journey.

In this course, learners explore the core concepts of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including its models and how its phases help to produce high-quality systems. In its 15 videos, you will examine types of manual testing, goals of manual testing, and manual testing frameworks; prominent models used, their features, advantages and disadvantages. Discover how to create test case templates for manual testing that apply best practices, and learn about manual testing with Postman. Learners will delve into different types of automation testing and their goals; frameworks that can be used to implement automated testing, their features, advantages and disadvantages, and the difference between manual and automated testing; and learn where manual or automated testing should be implemented. Then learn how to configure automation testing with Selenium WebDriver, and explore automated and manual testing scenarios and the preferred conditions where automated and manual testing can be implemented. Conclude this course by observing how to execute test cases with the implementation of automated testing using the QTP/UFT Linear Framework.

This 14-video course explores Agile methodologies that can be used to adopt the Agile testing paradigm. Examine benefits and challenges associated with Agile testing, and best practices and guidelines that can be adopted to implement Agile testing practices. Learners will observe lifecycle phases for testing within Agile frameworks; use Cucumber behavior-driven development (BDD) framework to write acceptance tests; and learn approaches for tracking test progress and product quality metrics used to evaluate Agile test implementation outcomes. Learn how to define responsibilities of testers in Agile projects and tools and products used to set up Agile testing workflows; view different Agile testing levels; and work with Cucumber-JVM and Selenium Webdriver in Java to implement Agile testing with BDD. Explore the role of Agile Testing Quadrants and how they reflect the What-Testing-When approach, and configure test management in Jira to implement Agile testing for REST application programming interfaces (APIs). Conclude by exploring the Whole Team Approach, and learning to configure Agile project management by using Scrum and Kanban with Jira.

Begin this 14-video course by exploring the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), their features and uses, and SDLC versus STLC. Examine Test Driven Development (TDD), its methodology, and scenarios for using TDD. Also explore Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD); learn to differentiate between TDD and AMDD; and explore AMDD advantages over TDD. Discover how to implement TDD in data science workflows; drawbacks of TDD; and replacement methodologies. Learn how to refactor code, and implement TDD in JUnit using best practices. Also, you will learn about mastering TDD, the drawbacks of TDD, the scenarios for using TDD, and alternative methodologies that can be implemented in place of TDD. Explore using TDD in Java; TDD with Jest testing framework and Node.js; unit testing with TDD in Python; applying the TDD process in microservices; and alternative methodology for TDD. Learn how to implement behavior-driven development (BDD) best practices. Conclude the course by observing how to configure Cucumber framework and use keywords.

Learners will explore the concept of end-to-end testing, including why it is needed, in this 14-video course, which examines processes involved in end-to-end testing and approaches for creating end-to-end test cases. First, you will take a look at system testing versus end-to-end testing, their advantages and disadvantages, and their differences. Discover how to implement the basics of unit testing, and unit testing with test-driven development (TDD), and browser automation. Learn about automating tests with Selenium and automating tests with Python, and recall the advantages and disadvantages of end-to-end testing. Next, you will delve into Cypress configuration, and the advantages of working with Cypress. Explore how to carry out web component testing with Cypress and relatable use case scenarios, and view continuous integration concepts and continuous integration servers from the perspective of testing. Finally, learners will observe how to implement integration testing with JUnit and Spring, and implement integration testing in a JavaScript framework by using Jest, based on real-life examples.

Explore the generations of automated test frameworks, test framework design considerations, best practices, and benefits and risks associated with modifying test frameworks, and other topics, in this 15-video course. Begin by examining the features, advantages and disadvantages of generations of automated test frameworks, then look at popular open-source test automation frameworks with comparative modification granularity. Learn about design considerations for modifying test frameworks to accelerate productivity; best practices for modifying test frameworks to build Agile-friendly test automation frameworks; and benefits and risks of modifying test frameworks. Delve into refactoring techniques, which can be used to refactor code in test automation frameworks; modifying Selenium framework by creating and destroying WebDriver objects using Selenium Core; and modifying Selenium to implement Page Object Patterns by using the Selenium Test class. Learn how to modify the report generation mechanism of testing frameworks by using ExtentReport and Allure; modify the Chai framework; modify Jasmine to adopt behavior-driven development framework; and recall design patterns of test automation frameworks. To conclude, discover WebDriverIO execution and customization.

In this 14-video course, learners explore the DevOps continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) process and approaches for switching from traditional practices to CI/CD practices. You will learn to recognize risks and challenges associated with CI/CD and approaches for eliminating them. Then delve into CI/CD pipelines and the benefits of implementing automated testing for CI/CD; different CI/CD pipeline architectures that can be set up to implement automated testing; and the CI/CD framework features that can help accelerate continuous integration with Jenkins test automation. Look at CI/CD tools used to build next-gen delivery pipelines; configure Jenkins with the supported tools needed to set up continuous integration from the perspective of test automation, and use Git Hooks to automate development and deployment tasks. Observe how to build CI/CD pipelines; set up architectures of CI/CD pipelines for container automation; and recognize the core technologies and strategies that are used to implement continuous testing and deployment with containers. Finally, learn how to implement continuous testing by using Selenium and Jenkins.

Final Exam: QA Lead will test your knowledge and application of the topics presented throughout the QA Lead track of the Skillsoft Aspire Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester Journey.

In this course, learners explore the features provided by SoapUI, SoapUI and SoapUI NG Pro differences, the concept of assertion, and the concept of test automation in continuous integration. Begin this 14-video course with a look at features of SoapUI and the concept of Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Then compare the differences between SoapUI and SoapUI NG Pro from the perspective of their supporting technologies and features; learn how to configure SoapUI to test REST-based web services; and how to create Test Suites and Test Cases by using SoapUI to test application programming interfaces (APIs). You will observe how to create projects in SoapUI; add WSDL to SoapUI projects; and explore the concept of assertion and assertions available to use in SoapUI. Learn how to create Test Suites in SoapUI projects and add assertions in the Test Suites, and learn the process of creating REST API projects in SoapUI. Examine use of Groovy scripting in SoapUI; integrating SoapUI tests into continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) process; and observe SoapUI integration with Jenkins.

Explore the concept of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and its important features in this 14-video course. View the differences between BDD and test-driven development (TDD) from the perspective of the advantages and disadvantages, and why BDD is selected over TDD. Next, receive an introduction to Cucumber, its features and advantages, and differences between Cucumber, Selenium, and application lifecycle management (ALM). Look at Cucumber Workflow and the Cucumber testing stack, then move on to Gherkin, and why it needs to be taken into account, with focus on Gherkin syntax, important terms, and best practices. Learn about configuring Cucumber for BDD testing, and the Cucumber feature file with testing. Discover how to work with Runner, Step definition, Parameter, and testing with Gherkin script in Cucumber, and perform data-driven testing with Cucumber by using data tables. Delve into Cucumber report generation; using different hooks in Cucumber, and running Cucumber feature file with TestNG. In the final tutorial, you will discover how to write Gherkin script, and application programming interface (API) testing with Gherkin script.

In this 14-video course, you will explore functional testing and its objectives, then take a look at unified functional testing (UFT) features and UFT disadvantages associated with it. First, learners examine the UFT testing process, and test workflows that can be used to implement it. Discover various UFT test types; the HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) features and how conducting QTP test automation can help testers execute automated tests, and explore the role of object repository and differentiate between local object repository and shared object repositor. You will delve into recording test steps and using checkpoints; learn how to set, identify, and use text checkpoints when testing web applications; and set and identify standard checkpoints when testing web applications. Learn about setting and using bitmap checkpoints on test components; use regular expressions in UFT and recognize the steps for handling dynamic property values in object repository, and finally, learn how to declare transactions in the identified sections of a test.

Begin this 14-video course with a look at the concept of automation testing, including its process, benefits, and tools. Learners will then move on to TestCompete, and explore its features and the different types of testing it supports. Next, you will examine the TestComplete Object Model and its relevance in automated testing. Delve into name mapping, its uses, and the object identification criteria. Then focus on data-driven testing in TestComplete, as well as TestComplete data storage types and common tasks. You will learn about configuring TestComplete for automation testing; how to use various options and features provided in the TestComplete IDE (integrated development environment); and learn about creating or initializing TestComplete projects. Next, observe how to record test cases for functional testing using TestComplete; implement web testing in TestComplete; and study the objectives of specifics involved in web testing. Conclude the course by discovering how to create checkpoints for testing web applications with TestComplete, and how to test web applications with the use of test suites in TestComplete.

This course explores the prominent frameworks for testing Python-based applications, how to implement tests using Pytest and PyCharm, and also Pytest test parameterization. Begin this 14-video course with a look at the concept of automated testing and classifying the different types of automation testing. Then view the prominent Python testing frameworks, and features of DocTest, Nose, and UnitTest that can be used to automate testing of Python-based applications. Discover how to implement unit testing in Pytest by using the PyCharm integrated development environment (IDE), and the procedure to parameterize tests by using Pytest. Learn about configuring Robot and executing Python tests using the Robot framework; build and test application programming interfaces (API) using Flask, and explore the process of testing APIs built in Flask using Postman. Also learn how to configure the Behave framework for Python testing by writing feature files. To conclude the course, learners observe how to automate testing of web components by using Selenium with Python.

Learners can explore the concept, benefits, and challenges of model-based testing (MBT) and the different types of MBT frameworks and tools in this 14-video course. Begin by examining the concept of MBT, along with its associated benefits and challenges. Classify the different types of MBT frameworks, along with different models used in MBT. Examine various MBT techniques used to implement effective quality assurance of software or application systems. View the prominent MBT tools along with their associated features; configure the ModelJUnit framework in development environments to write and execute model-based tests; and learn how to write simple finite state machine or extended state machine models as Java classes. Then generate tests from those models, and measure various model coverage metrics. Learn the steps involved in creating models and testing with ModelJUnit, MoMuT installation and configuring MoMuT. Also learn about configuring OSMO MBT tool and OSMO MBT test generation, OSMO MBT test execution, and OSMO data modelling; graphwalker MBT, model-based testing with Graphwalker and Selenium, MBT workflow, and deploying MBT.

In this 17-video course, explore the concept of functional automation and benefits and weaknesses of using Selenium for functional automation. Examine Selenium architecture, Selenium Test Suite components, and the basic elements of Selenium test scripts. Then learn how to install Selenium integrated development environment (IDE) and configure Firebug and Firepath add-ons. Compare Selenium WebDriver with release candidate (RC); learn about recording Selenium test cases and exporting Selenium test cases, and execute Selenium test scripts on Chrome and Firefox browsers. Examine locating strategies in Selenium used to specify locations of web elements; learn about locating strategies in Selenium by using Selenium locators; and observe the use of hard assertions in Selenium and soft assertions in Selenium to determine the state of applications. Discover how to build maintainable Selenium frameworks; how to integrate Selenium with Bamboo and Maven, and Selenium with Jenkins. Explore Selenium Advanced User Interaction API; work with Selenium WebDriver Compatibility and cross-browser tests and automating in the cloud using Browserstack. To conclude the course, take a look at Selenium Headless Browser testing.

This 14-video course explores different types of environments for software testing automation by examining key parameters for designing and developing test automation frameworks. Learn about test automation frameworks, their features, advantages and disadvantages, and selecting the right one. Learners will take a look at test automation frameworks that can be implemented by using Selenium WebDriver; build a Selenium Data Driven Framework; implement a Data Driven Automation Framework using TestNG with the @dataProvider annotation; and learn how to implement a Keyword Driven Framework with Selenium WebDriver and Excel Test Suite. You will build a Hybrid Automation Framework using a collection of two or more frameworks; set up Jenkins to run continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tests from Maven projects using Selenium WebDriver, and discover how to automate non-web UI with Selenium. Conclude the course by learning about implementing the Docker containerized test automation framework and the Selenium containerized test automation framework, and the best practices for building test automation frameworks in Agile and DevOps.

Final Exam: Automated Tester will test your knowledge and application of the topics presented throughout the Automated Tester track of the Skillsoft Aspire Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester Journey.