Scripting for Testers

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 Playwright, and reporting tools like Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel. 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
Drive API calls with Playwright scripting.
Leverage API authentication.
Parse API data.
Work with images.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - The power of scripting as a testing tool
02 - What you should know
03 - Setting up a testing application

1. Scripting API Interactions

04 - Exploring the API with Postman
05 - REST API calls in Python
06 - Authentication
07 - Setting up Visual Studio Code
08 - Finding an intermittent error
09 - Challenge - Find the API rate limit
10 - Solution - Find the API rate limit
11 - Generate fake input data
12 - Creating test data through API calls
13 - Using API calls to set up complex test scenarios

2. Scripting UI Interactions

14 - Getting started with Playwright
15 - Navigating with Playwright
16 - Automating test setup with Playwright
17 - Test scenario setup
18 - Challenge - Comparing multiple scenarios
19 - Solution - Comparing multiple scenarios

3. Web Scraping

20 - Getting started with web scraping
21 - Use web scraping to analyze your site
22 - Checking filters with web scraping
23 - Use web scraping to generate test data
24 - Challenge - Validate booking page
25 - Solution - Validate booking page

4. Working with Images

26 - Taking a snapshot of your site
27 - Verifying images in a snapshot
28 - Emulating different devices
29 - Create image diff (difference) tools
30 - Comparing images
31 - Generating test images
32 - Find a subimage in an image
33 - Challenge - Cross browser data validation
34 - Solution - Cross browser data validation

Conclusion

35 - Bring scripting to your day-to-day