Python Programming for QA Automation, South Africa

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This course provides a complete introduction to the Python scripting language tailored towards developing automated QA skills. Delegates will learn to program using all the features of Python 2 and 3 along with unit test frameworks and GUI automation with Selenium. Object-oriented and functional aspects of Python are covered in depth including best practices.

The course duration can be tailored based upon the experience of the delegates with more or less foundational Python content.

Delegate’s experience will factor into the content and duration of the course.

Introduction to Python

The evolution of Python from Shell Scripting and Perl
Installing Python and running / debugging simple scripts
Differences between Python 3 and earlier versions
Using the JVM and CLR based Python interpreters
Comparing Python to Ruby, JavaScript and PowerShell

The Basics of Python Scripting

Declaring and modifying variables
Reading and writing from the console
Working with the built in data types
Making choices and performing iteration
Declaring functions and passing parameters
Identity, equality and references
Reading and writing text, data and objects from files

Working With Structured Data

Storing individual items in sets, lists and tuples
Storing pairs of items in dictionaries (aka hashes)
Understanding how class declarations work in Python
Creating classes and adding attributes and operations
Using your own types with the built-in collections

Object Orientation in Depth

Creating class hierarchies in Python
Overriding methods from base classes
Adding properties to your classes
The intrinsic class and object attributes
Creating your own iterator objects and generators
Using decorators to address Aspects in your design
Guidelines for overloading operators sensibly
Support for meta-programming in Python

Using Python for Testing Applications

Test-Driven verses Behavior Driven Development
Understanding the features of a Unit Test Framework
Picking a testing framework in Python
Comparing doctest, unittest, py.test and Nose
Using Selenium to test web applications
CSS Selector and XPath Syntax
Using Behave for BDD
Using Robot with Selenium for BDD

Functional Programming and Advanced Python

Using functions as inputs to other functions
Creating and working with lambda functions
Using lamdbas with filter, map and reduce
Simplifying your code using list comprehensions
Raising and catching exceptions correctly
Organizing your code into modules and packages

Regular Expressions in Python

What is a regular expression?
Functions in Python that accept regular expressions
Creating character classes and specifying multiplicities
Meta-characters for specifying positions in the input
Understanding greedy vs. non-greedy matching
Using parenthesis for grouping and submatches

Upcoming Trainings

Join our public courses in our South Africa facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

Classroom / Virtual Classroom

19 May 2024