TDL School in cooperation with TestDevLab is organizing Software Development Quality Assurance course. In this course you will be able to learn about testing processes in software development and about the practical implementation of testing, using various testing methods and environments.

At least basic knowledge & skills (depending on the course)

Software Development Quality Assurance

Introduction - the necessity of testing, industry standards, practical examples

Testing levels, Test types and techniques

Software Development Life Cycle - SDLC, SDLC Models

Basics of Agile methodology

Practical lessons by using Jira + Xray

Quiz format test, on the covered theoretical topics. Practical task

In 1 week, this course will introduce you to the theory and real-life cases of Software Development Quality Assurance as well as the basics of Accessibility Testing, in order to give you a better understanding of digital accessibility fundamentals.

Quality Assurance and Accessibility Testing

Accessibility Testing Basics

In this course you will be able to take a practical look at automating test scenarios for hybrid mobile apps that are made of a combination of native components and webviews built using modern mobile app development frameworks (Ionic, React Native, etc).

Specific previous knowledge in order to participate

Hybrid Mobile App Test Automation

Introduction to hybrid mobile apps and testing tools

Inspecting webviews on Android (Chrome) and iOS (Safari)

Writing test scenarios that use native and webview elements

Common issues and how to deal with them

The aim of this course is to introduce basic programming concepts in C++ and to show how unit testing can be done in C++.

C++ Programming and Unit Testing

Introduction to C++, IDE setup, creating your first project

C++ basics: variables, functions, loops, data types

Google Test and unit testing in C++

Standard library methods and containers, usage examples

During this course we will look at three skills which are needed for every senior level mobile test automation engineer: evaluation of other people’s work, solving non-standard test automation problems and high level planning of implementing test automation in new or existing projects. Please know that it is impossible to make someone into a senior level expert in a couple of hours, therefore this course is to clarify the requirements for this level and to give a possibility to practice with some examples that might be in the technical interview.

Mobile Test Automation Advanced

Evaluation of other people’s work

Non-standard test automation task

Communication with client and implementation of test automation in a new or existing project

The aim of the study course is to prepare the individual for the intermediate level mobile test automation technical interview and therefore also prepare for working in a project with related needs as an intermediate level test automation engineer.

Mobile Test Automation

Test automation basics and some reminders of Junior level

Manual test scenario investigation

Preparing element search selectors (IDs/xpaths)

Cucumber & test automation project structure

Same steps, but with more complex scenarios. Test automation techniques, scrolling

Actions with lists and test automation algorithms

Test execution with multiple threads (parallelization)

CI (Jenkins), automatic test execution and report generation

The aim of the course is to educate Junior level testers and developers in REST API automation using Java, RestAssured, Serenity based framework.

REST API Automation

Framework setup and introduction to REST API/REST API automation

REST API test scenarios development

CI/CD setup

The goal of the course is to get acquainted with core soft skills that can help in a Team lead role, principles and tools, that will help in working together with a team. Course is designed for both, those who would like to become team lead and for those who already are team leads.

Team Lead Core Soft Skills

What are the soft skills

Building a team

The study course objective is a combination of theoretical lectures and practical workshops focused on REST API test automation using JAVA and Cucumber. Participants will learn how to set up the development environment, add dependencies and create and run automated tests for a REST API system.

REST API Test Automation

Introduction to web services

Technologies used for practical workshops

Project set up

Cucumber

REST Assured and calling web services

Combining and chaining requests for testing

Version control

The aim of the course is to understand how to find and define element selectors, how to interact with an Android device using Appium and implement it together with Cucumber to create automated tests for Android devices, while keeping in mind best practices for the project structure and test design.

Ruby Mobile Automation

Introduction to Mobile automation

Configuring and launching Appium server

Introduction to Appium Desktop

Launching Appium server and interacting with it using Ruby

Implementing Cucumber and page classes

Creating test cases

Generating test reports, screenshots and maintaining the project in git repository

The aim of the course is to educate participants who have little to no programming experience with junior level development using Javascript programming language which will set the foundation for principles of object oriented programming.

JavaScript

Programming fundumentals

Package management and object-oriented programming

Hands-on development

The aim of the course is to show students how to set up a fully functioning test automation project using Java programming language, TestNG testing framework and Maven.

Web Automation with Java and Selenium

Introduction to course

Automated tests code structure

Variables

Clases

TestNG testing framework

Webdriver and DOM

Locating web elements

Page Object Model

Test report

Execution in threads, data providers

Test properties, Global system variables

Questions you need to answer before starting to code

This course is going to teach the basics of the Swift programming language - the language created by Apple and used in the Apple ecosystem.Course will teach about the language syntax and its type-safe nature starting from variable definition till creating custom classes with its own functionality - and that all will be done by creating a macOS terminal application and updating it through the whole course.

Swift programming language basics

Data types and operators

String Interpolation; Control flow

Collections and Loops

Functions and Enums

Optionals

Structs and Classes

Protocols and Protocol Extensions

The aim of the course is to give insight into how to write basic backend performance tests using JMeter, and teach about performance testing types. Using a browser and addons lecturer will teach how to record the requests that are happening while using a web page and how to write a performance test, if API development and design documentation is not given.

Performance Testing

Testing Types

Rest API

Performance Test Tools

Elements of JMeter Test

Practical Tasks

The aim of the course is familiarise students with java tools and give more advanced insight in the language abilities and usage of that to create testing software or solving specific tasks related with testing.

Java

Recap of java project structure (classes, interfaces, constructors, methods, etc.), Rest Assured, work with JSON parsing

Rest service mocking, exception handling

Lambda expressions, unit tests

Serialization/Deseralization, databases, input output streams from/to file

The aim of the course is to give an insight about the SwiftUI framework and teach how to use it in iOS application development. SwiftUI lets developers write user interface code in a declarative way by just describing the wanted outcome without the need of providing all the small details on how to achieve this outcome. Through the course you will learn about SwiftUI and practice by building multiple small iOS applications.

iOS application development using SwiftUI framework

SwiftUI introduction

First application development

Second application development

Third application development

Test

The program includes three modules: Software Development Quality Assurance, JavaScript and Web Automation with Cypress.

TestDevLab Autumn School #1: JavaScript and Web Automation with Cypress

Web Automation with Cypress

The program includes three modules: Swift Basics, iOS apps with SwiftUI, iOS apps with UIKit. The aim of the Autumn School is to teach the basics of the Swift programming language - the language created by Apple and used in the Apple ecosystem, and to build multiple iOS applications using different approaches.

TestDevLab Autumn School #2: iOS Development

Swift Basics

SwiftUI basics

SwiftUI development

UIKit basics 

UIKit development

Consultation

Final test day & consultation

The aim of this course is to gain understanding about test automation and to get acquainted with JavaScript's web automation framework Nightwatch.js

Web Automation with Nightwatch.js

Test automation fundamentals 

Nightwatch.js framework basics and setup 

Hands-on tutorial of writing and implementing test cases 

The aim of the course is to educate students about the benefits of practicing CI/CD in software development projects and prepare them for being able to create their own software delivery pipelines. Additionally teach about Docker and Docker Compose usage to create isolated environments for software applications and their usage in scope of CI/CD process improvements.

Introduction to Docker and CI/CD

Theory - Introduction to Docker

Workshop - Docker image creation, container management 

Workshop - Docker Compose

Theory - Introduction to CI/CD

Workshop - Pipeline concept, pipeline creation in Jenkins

Workshop -  Pipeline creation in GoCD

The aim of the course is to give an example of a basic web automation project and know-how on how to define elements based on css/xpath selectors, performing actions with elements, creating page objects, creating scenarios as well as running automation projects in CI/CD tools.

Web Automation using Java Serenity

Basics in QA and Automation

CSS/Xpath selectors

Object oriented programming (Page objects, inheritance)

CD/CD tools

The aim of the course is to show students how to set up fully functioning test automation project using Javascript programming language and WebdriverIO, Cucumber, and Jenkins tools. Students will also gain basic knowledge in Git, XPath, and CSS element location strategies and test writing using a behavior-driven approach. Students will also be introduced to intermediate topics, like test running in parallel and usage of different services.

Web Automation with WebdriverIO and Cucumber

JavaScript basics, introduction to used tools

WebdriverIO project creation

Cucumber framework

Chrome console, DOM and selectors

Writing tests

Version Control System, CI tools

The aim of the course is to grow understanding of ISO/IEC 27001 standard requirements, gain knowledge of internal auditing and raise potential internal auditors.

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