The Software Testing and Automation Masterclass will help you understand and effectively apply modern techniques and best practices for software testing, ensuring the quality and reliability of applications.
This course covers all the necessary steps a Software Tester needs to know, from understanding the Software Development Lifecycle and Testing Fundamentals, to creating test cases, test plans and test execution. You will learn the most important testing methodologies, such as manual testing and the testing pyramid, and you will specialize in automation for web testing with WebdriverIO and Playwright, and mobile testing with Appium and WebdriverIO. The course also includes CI/CD solutions with Github Actions and using cloud providers for testing, providing practical knowledge to tailor testing to the needs of your business and the applications used.
In addition, this course prepares you for applying for positions such as Software Engineer in Test (SET) / Automation Tester and Manual Tester.
This course is delivered by experienced software testers and key members of the Ministry of Testing Athens.
This seminar is offered in Greek. See more information in our Greek page.
Ministry of Testing Athens (MOTA) is a highly active network of scientists and IT professionals specializing in Software Testing. JavaScript and React Masterclass, as well as Software Testing and Automation Masterclass instructors are active members and member of the organizing committee of MoT Athens with extensive experience in software development projects & software testing projects.
Special fees apply for MOTA members. Calls us at 210-3680911 for more information.
The seminar is designed for software developers, quality assurance engineers, web developers, IT Project Managers as well as to students or graduates of IT schools who wish to upgrade their knowledge in Software Testing and automation.
Prerequisites: recommended to have basic programming knowledge in at least one language such as Python, Java or JavaScript, as it will be necessary for writing and executing automation scripts. Familiarity with software development concepts. Basic understanding of web and mobile applications.
Familiarize with Testing Theory and Terms.
Being able to to identify common terminologies such as regression testing, black box testing ,smoke testing , test cases etc
Being able to present an overview of automation testing techniques and best practises specific to mobile and web applications (e.g Appium)
Apply Test Design Techniques such as Page Object Model and explain the concept of these techniques and their significance in building scalable test automation frameworks as this is widely used as design pattern for organizing test code
Being able of designing and setting up a test automation framework from scratch using WebDriverIO or Playwright and cover key components of a test automation suite, including test environment setup, project structure, configuration management, and dependency management.
Being able to Provide a Complete Reporting Approach, introduce tools for generating detailed test reports and metrics
Being able to Identify and Propose Parallel Test Execution under a CI/CD Model, explain the concept of parallel test execution and its benefits in accelerating test cycles and reducing time-to-feedback and provide guidelines for configuring and optimising parallel test execution setups to maximize efficiency and resource utilization
Software Testing Fundamentals
Manual Testing
Exercises : For a given Web page or a feature create several acceptance criteria along with several test cases. Create a traceability matrix based on the acceptance criteria and the test cases created.
Feedback & Open discussion on how the test cases where created, possible findings, thing to improve regarding the tc design
Bug vs Defect
Exercises : For a given Web page or a feature create several test cases and organise them on test suites, like regression suite, smoke suite, security suite etc
Analyze exercises & Open discussion on how the test cases where organised, how each test suite was created and if a test case could be used in more than one suite.
Web Applications Simple Architecture
Unit Testing
Analyse, discuss test results per user
Mobile Simulators/Emulators
Multiple question test as homework with everything that was discussed from previous days
Analyze, discuss test results per user.
Test Driven Development
What is WebdriverIO
Multiple question test as homework with everything that was discussed from previous days
Analyse, discuss test results per user
First Test
Add some extra test cases
Exercise: For a given Web page create extra test cases containing: Open the burger menu | Open the about page | Be able to logout
Analyze exercises & Open discussion on how the test cases where created, possible findings, thing to improve regarding the tc design. Ways to debug a failed test. Visual regression testing.
Describe a project’s structure in general
Create Constants
CI/CD Model description. What it is. What does it offer
Exercise: For a given Web page create extra test cases for geolocation. Provide the adb commands and try to create the respective scenarios: Allow App to access device’s location | Do not allow app to access device’s location
Analyze exercises & Open discussion on how the test cases where created, possible findings, thing to improve regarding the tc design.Ways to debug a failed test.
Introduction to Playwright
Understanding the Playwright config file
How to organise your tests using the POM approach
Exercise: For a given Web page create extra test cases containing some unhappy path login test cases
Extra test cases creation:
Exercise: For a given Web page create extra test cases containing: Open the burger menu | Open the about page | Be able to logout
Analyze exercises from the previous week. Open discussion on how the test cases where created, possible findings, thing to improve regarding the TC design. Improve your tests using the afterAll /afterEach
Playwright hints
Q&A session and Closure - Lessons learned - Action Plan - next steps
