• Identify different requirement types
• Define different tests for different application types
• Review the various tools and methods available for test automation
• Write a test case as a Gherkin scenario
• Construct modeling and diagramming techniques
• Write the steps of an automated test
• Record and playback a test in both Selenium WebDriven and Ranorex
• Partition a recorded test case into reusable modules
• Exploit automated testing for data-driven, multi-platform and cross-browser testing
• Use test automation for implementing continuous integration

This class is designed for:

• Software Developers and Programmers
• Business Analysts
• Quality Assurance Professionals
• Software Testers
• Product Owners
• Project Managers
• IT Managers
• Software Engineers

This course is tool agnostic, but you will do a review of the options available to you in the market.

Students who have completed a foundational Agile testing course have found it very helpful when completing this course.

Part 1: Introducing Test Automation

1. Watch an Automated Test
2. Requirements
   
   • Exercise:Identify different requirement types
   • Exercise:Make requirements testable
3. Testing Types
   
   • Black-box vs. white-box
   • System testing vs. integration testing vs. unit testing vs. acceptance testing
4. Application Types
   
   • Process-driven or data-driven: no "one size fits all"
   • Exercise:Define different kinds of tests for different application types
5. The Alphabet Soup of Tools and Methods
   
   • Selenium. Gherkin. Cucumber. HPQC. Jirayou hear all of these. What do they mean? How do they fit together? Which do you need and which can you safely ignore?
   • Exercise:Testing facts and fallacies

Part 2: Preparing for Test Automation

1. Effective Partitioning Schemes
   
   • Exercise:Structure a system into processes (actor goals), activities, actions
2. Use Cases and Test Cases
   
   • Exercise:Create a test case for a single activity from a written use case (happy path)
3. Behavior-Driven Languages
   
   • Exercise:Write a test case as a Gherkin scenario
4. Modeling and Diagramming Techniques
   
   • Exercise:Construct a UI navigation map for normal and alternate flows
5. Equivalence Partitioning and Boundary Value Analysis
   
   • Exercise:Define input value choices and use TAME to construct test alternatives

Part 3: Recording Automated Tests

1. Automated Test Steps:
   • Pre-checks, Inputs, Events, and Post-Checks
   • Exercise:Write the steps of an automated test
2. Record and playback a single test
   • Exercise:Record and play back a test in Selenium WebDriver
   • Exercise:Record and play back a test in Ranorex

Part 4: Dissecting Automated Tests

1. Recorded Test Steps
   
   • Exercise:Examine recorded steps in Selenium and Ranorex
2. UI Element Repositories
   
   • Exercise:Examine the components of a UI page
   • Exercise:Create path expressions to locate page elements

Part 5: Assembling Automated Tests from Modules

1. Test Suites, Test Cases, and Modules
   
   • Exercise:Partition a recorded test into reusable modules
2. Modular Test Development
   
   • Exercise:Construct test cases from existing modules
   • Exercise:Construct new modules for alternate behaviors

Part 6: Coding Automated Tests

1. Code always, Code sometimes, or Code never
2. The Skills Pyramid
3. Open-source and commercial tools
   
   • Exercise:Compare tools and team capabilities

Part 7: Exploiting Automated Testing

1. Test-driven development: test cases as specifications
2. Data-driven tests
   
   • Exercise:Define data tables for equivalence partitions and boundary value analysis
3. Multi-platform and cross-browser testing
   
   • Exercise:Run test cases on multiple web browsers

Part 8: Enabling Continuous Integration with Test Automation

1. Regression test suites
2. Development events trigger test runs
3. Configure test subsets
   
   • Exercise:Define a minimal "smoke test" and contrast with a full regression suite
4. Report test results
   
   • Exercise:Design a dashboard for quick reporting of test results

Part 9: Course Summary

1. Quiz: Testing facts and fallacies
2. Exercise:Plan your own test automation strategy