Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester - Part 2 QA Specialist

• Explore application programming interfaces, including their

• typical lifecycle and the various types available. Examine API
• management benefits, tools and solutions, as well as the role of
• API management in DevOps and upcoming trends for API management
• from the perspective of AI and ML. In addition, discover how to
• maximize API security, implement CI/CD pipelines for API
• management, and implement API management using Azure API
• Management, Apigee API Management, and AWS API Gateway.

• Explore unit testing, including the differences between unit

• testing and integration testing, key framework components, and best
• practices and anti-patterns to consider when writing test cases.
• Examine common unit testing tools for testing Java and JavaScript
• programs, core testing and refactoring techniques for developing
• testable and maintainable code, and the role of unit testing in
• test automation. In addition, discover features of popular test
• automation frameworks, as well as how to write and run unit tests
• using JsUnit and QUnit, test server-side JavaScript using Mocha and
• Chai, create test cases and test suites using JUnit, use the @Test
• annotation with the invocationCount and threadPoolSize attributes
• to test web sites.

• Explore prominent unit testing patterns, the differences between

• good and bad unit tests, code-driven unit testing frameworks, and
• the need for Test Double and its categories. Discover how to
• implement the AAA unit testing pattern, configure and use the
• Mockito API to implement unit tests, and configure and write JUnit
• tests to test RESTful APIs. In addition, unit testing web services,
• writing unit tests to test data access objects, and implementing
• automated testing using JUnit, TestNG, Mocha, Chai, SOAP UI, and
• Selenium are covered.

• Explore approaches of identifying bad code, how to design

• applications using clean coding principles, and best practices for
• coding artifacts that meet clean coding standards. Discover how to
• handle errors with clean code, principles for writing clean code,
• and testing strategies for maintaining clean code. Examine rules
• for implementing clean tests, clean coding in JavaScript, and
• test-driven development principles.

• Explore containerized testing, the benefits of using Docker for

• testing, the advantages and disadvantages of using Docker to set up
• architectures for automated testing, the features and prerequisites
• of test containers, and patterns used for running tests in Docker
• containers. Discover how to configure and integrate GitHub
• repositories with Docker, test automated builds on Docker Hub,
• configure continuous integration testing environments with Docker
• and Docker Compose, and integrate and use Docker test containers
• with reporting tools. How to implement performance testing with
• Docker containers, and deploy and integrate Selenium Grid with
• Docker to run Selenium scripts for testing is also covered.

• Explore the design principles, architecture, and essential

• components of Kubernetes, as well as how Kubernetes helps implement
• end-to-end software testing. Examine testing types that can be
• automated with Kubernetes, when and when not to use Kubernetes for
• automation testing, and the advantages and disadvantages of
• implementing test automation using Selenium Grid and Kubernetes.
• Discover how to run and deploy three-tier web applications using
• Kubernetes, scale applications by increasing replica counts, create
• single-zone clusters and volume resources within clusters, and run
• Docker application container images using GKE. How to set up test
• environments using Selenium Grid, Docker, and Kubernetes, build
• test container images, use Selenium WebDriver to implement
• end-to-end browser-related tests, and deploy test containers in
• Kubernetes clusters and publish test results are also covered.

• Explore the use of AWS-based environments for automated testing,

• including AWS tools for development and testing, and best practices
• for using AWS to set up environments for automated testing.
• Discover how to use AWS Device Farm for automated testing of iOS,
• Android, and web applications, as well as how to work with AWS
• CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeStar, AWS
• CloudFormation, and AWS OpsWorks to provision infrastructure and
• pipelines for automated testing.

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.

• Practice QA Specialist tasks such as working with unit tests and employing testing best practices. Then, test your skills by answering assessment questions after exploring containers, scaling testing environments, using cloud testing tools and advanced testing topologies.
• This lab provides access to tools typically used by QA Specialists, including:
• � Jira
• � FitNesse
• � Docker
• � Eclipse
• � PowerShell
• � AWS CLI
• � Kubernetes
• This lab is part of the QA Specialist track of the Skillsoft Aspire Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester journey.