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Scripting for Testers

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Automate software testing with scripting. Learn how to write simple Python scripts to script API calls, reporting, test site prep, and more.

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Dave Westerveld

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