Scripting for Testers (2018)

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know

1. Driving API Interactions with Scripting

• REST API calls from Python
• Authentication
• Analyzing the data: Parsing data
• Challenge: Find duplicate URLs
• Solution: Find duplicate URLs
• Alternative tools for API scripting

2. Automate Report Generation Using Google APIs

• Gathering data
• Using Google Chart API
• Challenge: Create column chart
• Solution: Create column chart
• Create a Google Sheets service account
• Using Google Sheets API
• Challenge: Simple test report webpage
• Solution: Simple test report webpage

3. Automate Test Site Preparation with Selenium WebDriver

• Getting started with Selenium
• Selenium navigation
• Checking data with Selenium
• Initial page setup

4. Putting It Together Examples

• Analyze test data
• Generate and use input data

Conclusion

• Next steps