Develop yourself from Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester (incl. guidance)
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Do you want to develop yourself from Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester? Then this learning path is for you! You will gain the skills to test software, detect bugs and fix them. With the evolution of DevOps, testing is automated using various tools, frameworks and scripts. This makes testing more reliable and much faster. In this learning path, you will learn to apply these different strategies, tools and techniques. You will explore step-by-step the roles of Software Tester, QA Specialist, QA Lead and DevOps Automated Tester, strengthening your knowledge and skills in the field of software testing.
When you choose this learning path, you get:
- access to the training courses, LiveLabs and final exams concerning the roles Software Tester, QA Specialist, QA Lead and DevOps Automated Tester. You'll also get access to many more training courses, practice exams, bootcamps, e-books and so on.
- Guidance from our Learning & Development team, together with you we set goals, create a schedule and monitor your progress.
Software Tester
The first part of this learning path focuses on software testing for DevOps. This section covers navigating testing tools, test automation and continuous integration.
QA Specialist
In the second part of this learning path, the focus is on API management, unit testing, testing with clean code, testing with Docker and automated testing.
QA Lead
In the third part of this learning path, the focus is on manual versus automated testing, the Agile software tesing cycle, test driven development, end to end testing, CI/CD and customizing test frameworks.
DevOps Automated Tester
The fourth part of this learning path focuses on testing with SoapUI, Cucumber, HP UFT, TestComplete, Python and Selenium.
Result
After completing this learning path you will have the skills to test software, detect bugs and fix them. You will be able to apply various strategies, tools and techniques related to automated testing. You will have developed yourself into a DevOps Automated Tester.
Prerequisites
You have basic knowledge of software development and software testing.
Target audience
Tester
Content
Develop yourself from Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester (incl. guidance)
Software Testing for DevOps: Testing & DevOps Overview
Software Testing for DevOps: DevOps Testing Pipeline
Software Testing for DevOps: DevOps Test Tools
Navigating Software Testing Tools: Types of Software Testing Tools
Test Automation: Automated Software Testing
Explore the steps to becoming an automated tester and challenges faced in automated testing. Discover the automated tester mindset and goals of automated software testing. Also explore the differences between manual testing and automated testing along with the pros and cons of each method.
Exploring CI: Continuous Integration & CI Tools
Software Tester
Practice Software Tester tasks such as working with a testing
- pipeline, using DevOps code promotion, and using various testing
- tools. Then, challenge yourself by exploring test automation and
- continuous integration, working with virtualization and setting up
- test environments, and configuring testing topologies. This lab is
- part of the Software Tester track of the Skillsoft Aspire Software
- Tester to DevOps Automated Tester journey.
Final Exam: Software Tester
Final Exam: Software Tester will test your knowledge and application of the topics presented throughout the Software Tester track of the Skillsoft Aspire Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester Journey.
API Management and DevOps
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.
Unit Testing in DevOps Software Development
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.
Implementing Unit Testing Best Practices
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.
Role of Testing in Managing Clean Code
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.
Automated Testing with Docker
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.
Kubernetes & Automation Testing
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.
AWS Automated Testing: Environments & Services
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.
QA Specialist
- 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.
Final Exam: QA Specialist
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.
Comparing Manual & Automated Testing
Explore the core concepts of the Software Development Life
- Cycle. Examine manual and automated testing, including types,
- goals, implementation frameworks, features, advantages and
- disadvantages, and models. Examine the differences between manual
- and automated testing and various implementation scenarios.
- Discover how to create test case templates for manual testing,
- implement manual testing using Postman, configure Selenium
- WebDriver for automation testing, and execute test cases for
- automated testing using the QTP/UFT Linear Framework.
Software Testing Cycle: Agile Testing
Explore Agile methodologies that can be used to adopt the Agile
- testing paradigm, as well as the benefits, challenges, best
- practices, and guidelines associated with Agile testing. Examine
- the lifecycle phases and the different levels of Agile testing,
- tools and products for setting up Agile testing workflows,
- approaches for tracking test progress, and product quality metrics
- for evaluating Agile test outcomes. Discover the role of Agile
- Testing Quadrants and the Whole Team Approach. How to write
- acceptance tests using the Cucumber BDD framework, work with
- Cucumber-JVM and Selenium WebDriver in Java to implement Agile
- testing, configure test management in Jira, and configure Agile
- project management using Scrum and Kanban methods with Jira are
- also covered.
Test Driven Development: Implementing TDD
Explore the differences between the Software Development Life
- Cycle and the Software Testing Life Cycle. Examine Test Driven
- Development and Agile Model Driven Development, including
- advantages, usage scenarios, and the differences between them.
- Discover how to implement TDD in data science workflows, drawbacks
- of TDD, and replacement methodologies. In addition, how to refactor
- code, implement TDD using Java and the Jest Testing Framework,
- implement best practices for BDD, implement TDD unit testing with
- Python, apply the TDD process in microservices, and configure the
- Cucumber framework for TDD is also covered.
End-to-End Automated Testing: End-to-End Testing Implementation
Explore the concept of end-to-end testing, including why it is
- needed, the processes involved, test case creation approaches,
- advantages and disadvantages, and how it differs from system
- testing. Discover how to implement unit testing with Test-Driven
- Development processes, automate browsers, automate testing using
- Selenium with Python, configure Cypress to test web components, and
- implement integration testing using JUnit, Spring, and
- JavaScript.
Test Framework Modification
Explore the generations of automated test frameworks, test
- framework design considerations, best practises, the benefits and
- risks associated with modifying test frameworks, and recommended
- techniques for refactoring code in test automation frameworks.
- Discover how to modify the Selenium framework using Selenium Core,
- modify Selenium to implement PageObject patterns, modify the report
- generation mechanism of testing frameworks, modify the methods of
- the Chai framework, use Jasmine to implement a Behaviour-driven
- Development framework, and execute WebDriverIO in standalone
- mode.
CI/CD Best Practices: Applying Automated Testing
- Explore the CI/CD process of DevOps, how to switch from
- traditional practices to CI/CD, the risks and challenges associated
- with the CI/CD process, and the benefits of implementing automated
- testing for CI/CD. Examine the different CI/CD pipeline
- architectures for automated testing and prominent CI/CD tools for
- building next-gen delivery pipelines. Discover how to set up CI/CD
- architectures, automate development and deployment tasks with Git
- Hooks, build continuous integration and continuous delivery
- pipelines, and configure Jenkins with Selenium to implement
- continuous testing and test automation.
QA Lead
- Practice QA Lead tasks such as working with Selenium WebDriver, configuring and using Cucumber with Eclipse, using Jest and applying TDD for Python Applications. Then, test your skills by answering assessment questions after implementing browser automation, implementing integration testing using JUnit and Spring, and using chains assertions and the Jasmine Framework.
- This lab provides access to tools typically used by QA Leads, including:
- � Jira
- � FitNesse
- � Docker
- � Eclipse
- � PowerShell
- � AWS CLI
- � Kubernetes
- This lab is part of the QA Lead track of the Skillsoft Aspire Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester journey.
Final Exam: QA Lead
Final Exam: QA Lead will test your knowledge and application of the topics presented throughout the QA Lead track of the Skillsoft Aspire Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester Journey.
API Test Automation with SoapUI
Explore the features provided by SoapUI, the differences between
- SoapUI and SoapUI NG Pro, the concept of assertion, and the concept
- of test automation in continuous integration. We will also explore
- how to configure SoapUI to test REST-based web services, create
- test suites and test cases using SoapUI to test APIs, create test
- suites in SoapUI projects and add assertions in the test suites,
- use Groovy Scripts and different types of operators in SoapUI,
- integrate SoapUI Pro functional and security tests into the CI/CD
- process, and test web service integration with SoapUI in
- Jenkins.
BDD Testing with Cucumber
"Explore the concept of Behaviour-Driven Development, the
- differences between BDD and TDD, the features and advantages
- provided by Cucumber, the overall sequence workflow and the testing
- stack of Cucumber along with the concept of Gherkin.
- Learn to configure Cucumber for BDD testing, work with Gherkin
- script, perform data-driven testing, generate reports and use
- different hooks in Cucumber, run Cucumber Feature file with TestNG
- and also write Gherkin script for API testing."
HP UFT: Functional Test Automation
Explore functional testing, including its objectives, features,
- and disadvantages. Examine the types of tests supported by UFT, the
- role of Object Repository, and the differences between Local and
- Shared Object Repository. Discover how to record test steps, set
- and use test checkpoints, use Regular Expressions in UFT, and
- declare transactions in UFT.
TestComplete: Test Automation with TestComplete
Explore the concept of automation testing, including the
- process, benefits, and tools. Examine the features and types of
- testing supported by TestComplete, the concept and uses of name
- mapping, data-driven testing, and the different types of data
- storage and the common data tasks supported by TestComplete.
- Discover how to use the features provided in the TestComplete IDE,
- create projects, record test cases for functional testing, and test
- web applications with the use of test suites in TestComplete.
Automation Testing for Python
Explore the prominent frameworks for testing Python-based
- applications, how to implement unit tests using Pytest and PyCharm,
- and also parameterize tests using Pytest. We will also learn to
- configure and execute Python tests using the Robot Framework, build
- and test APIs using Flask and Postman, configure and implement BDD
- tests with Behave, and automate testing web components with
- Selenium and Python.
Module-based Testing: Automated Testing with Model-based Testing
Explore the concept, benefits, and challenges of model-based
- testing and the different types of model-based testing frameworks.
- We’ll examine techniques for quality assurance, tools for
- model-based testing, and approaches of deploying model-based
- testing. We will also discover how to configure ModelJUint in
- development environments to create models, mock implementations,
- write FSM or EFSM models as Java classes, write and execute
- model-based testing, install and configure MoMuT to generate test
- cases, and configure the OSMO MBT Tool to generate and execute test
- cases using test models. Finally, explore how to implement
- model-based testing using GraphWalker and Selenium.
Selenium: Using Selenium for Continuous Testing
Explore the concept of functional automation and the benefits
- and weakness of using Selenium for functional automation. Examine
- the architecture of Selenium, Selenium Test Suite components, the
- basic elements of Selenium test scripts, and the architectural
- components and features of WebDriver. Familiarize yourself with
- locating strategies for specifying locations of web elements and
- the steps involved in building maintainable Selenium frameworks.
- Discover how to install Selenium IDE, record test cases using
- Selenium IDE, export recorded test cases, execute Selenium test
- scripts on web browsers, work with Selenium locators, and use hard
- and soft assertions in Selenium. In addition, how to configure and
- integrate Selenium with Maven, Bamboo, and Jenkins to implement
- tests as a part of CI/CD pipelines is also covered.
Building & Implementing Test Automation Frameworks
Explore test automation frameworks, including parameters for
- designing and developing them, prominent options, how to choose the
- right framework, frameworks that can be implemented with Selenium
- WebDriver, and best practices for building frameworks for testing
- in Agile and DevOps. Discover how to build Data Driven Frameworks
- using Selenium and TestNG, implement Keyword Driven Frameworks
- using Selenium WebDriver, build Hybrid Automation Frameworks using
- a collection of two or more frameworks, set up Jenkins to implement
- continuous integration tests, automate non-web user interfaces in
- Selenium WebDriver, and use Docker and Selenium to build
- containerized test automation environments.
DevOps Automated Tester
- Practice DevOps Automated Tester tasks such as automating API test, using BDD tools, testing and analyzing with TestComplete and configuring continuous integration tests using Selenium. Then, test your skills by answering assessment questions after implementing asserts using TestNG, configuring and implementing GraphWalker, testing web applications and using automation frameworks.
- This lab provides access to tools typically used by DevOps Automated Testers, including:
- - VS Code
- - Python
- - Eclipse
- - PowerShell
- - Anaconda
- - Selenium WebDriver
- - Cucumber
- - Node.js
- - Jest
- - Junit
- - Jasmine Framework
- This lab is part of the DevOps Automated Tester track of the Skillsoft Aspire Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester journey.
Final Exam: Automated Tester
Final Exam: Automated Tester will test your knowledge and application of the topics presented throughout the Automated Tester track of the Skillsoft Aspire Software Tester to DevOps Automated Tester Journey.
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