Chapter 1: Understanding the Concepts
Chapter Goal: Give the conceptual idea of test automation, providing the reasons for adopting recommended practices, while setting proper test automation approach, in practical terms. Define where test automation is applicable and how to effectively integrate it with software delivery lifecycle.
No of pages: 10
Sub -Topics
1. Introduction to Test Automation (What is automation? Where to use it? How to use it?)
2. Importance of Integrating Test Automation with CI/CD Pipeline
3. ROI of Automation Testing
4. Dealing with Testing in Future Software Industry Trends
Chapter 2: Getting Started with Selenium and Visual Studio
Chapter Goal: This chapter provides, hands on step by step lessons, on preparing your development environment to start test automation developments. Additionally, guidance to setup third party frameworks which can help to enhance the test automation development experience are discussed.
Each lesson will comprise of following sub sections
• Lesson Goal
• Prerequisites
• Step by Step Walkthrough
• Summary (including brief conceptual explanation)
No of pages: 25
Sub - Topics
Lesson 1. Setup Selenium Automation Framework with Visual Studio in C#
Lesson 2. Setup Selenium Automation Framework with Visual Studio in python
Lesson 3. Setup Open MAQS Framework with Visual Studio in C#
Lesson 4. Setup Open Specflow Framework with Visual Studio in C#
Chapter 3: Function Testing for Web Applications
Chapter Goal: You will get step by step guide on functional testing using selenium with C# and python to test web applications. Further enhancements to the functional testing will be provided with third party frameworks.
No of pages : 60
Sub - Topics: All aspect of web app testing lessons
Lesson 1. Create a Test Project with Selenium and C#
Lesson 2. How to Capture Web Elements
Lesson 3. Web Element Commands
Lesson 4. Handle WebDriver Waits
Lesson 5. Automation Code Example with C# - functional Test
Lesson 6. Automation Code Example with Python -Functional Test
Lesson 7. Automation Code Example with MAQS Framework with C#
Lesson 8. Automation Code Example with Specflow Framework with C#
Chapter 4: Function Testing for Windows Apps
Chapter Goal: This chapter provides, hand on lessons on functional testing using Coded UI with C# to enable test automation for windows apps. Third party testing tools for enhancing the windows app testing are discussed.
No of pages: 50
Sub - Topics:
Lesson 1. Create a Test Project with CodedUI and C#
Lesson 2. How to Capture Windows Elements
Lesson 3. Element Commands
Lesson 4. Handle Element Waits
Lesson 5. Coded UI Test builder-Record and Playback
Lesson 6. Automation Code Example with Coded UI with C#
Lesson 7. Using Sikuli for windows app testing
Lesson 8. Using Winium for windows app testing
Chapter 5: Data Management in Functional Testing
Chapter Goal: This chapter, gives step by step lessons on how to manage test data for functional testing. Setting up prerequisite data for test scenarios discussed in detail allowing creating more granular level test cases to enable parallel testing capabilities in test automations.
No of pages: 25
Sub Topics:
Lesson 1. Manage Test Data Using Configuration Files
Lesson 2. Create Test Data Using Scripts
Lesson 3. Initialize and cleanup test data for all test
Lesson 4. Initialize and cleanup test data for an individual test
Chapter 6: Integrating Functional Testing to Deployment Pipelines
Chapter Goal: This chapter gives you guidance on setting up the automation tests with release pipelines focusing on VSTS/TFS. Detailed step by step guides will be provided on setting up test client environments in Azure or on-premises and utilizing them for test executions.
No of pages: 60
Sub - Topics:
Lesson 1. Setup Agent Pools and Queues
Lesson 2. Setting up deployment groups
Lesson 3. Create Azure VMs as test clients
Lesson 4. Setup Test Agents and Test Clients
Lesson 5. TFS Release Management – Create Build and Release Definition
Lesson 6. Integrate Test Automation to Deployment Pipeline
Lesson 7. Using unified test agent
Chapter 7: On-Prem Load Testing with Visual Studio
Chapter Goal: In this chapter, you will learn how to setup performance tests and utilizing them to implement load testing. The lessons will provide step by step guidance on setting up test rigs for on premises load testing scenarios and IaaS cloud base scenarios. Additionally, this chapter discuss the capabilities of VSTS and Visual Studio to enable cloud-based load testing by providing step by step guidance.
No of pages: 60
Sub - Topics:
Lesson 1. Writing performance tests
Lesson 2. Using data with performance tests
Lesson 3. Configure Test rig
Lesson 4. Create Load Test Project
Lesson 5. Identify and Setup Different Counters
Lesson 6. Create Cloud Based Load Test with VSTS
Lesson 7. Enhancing Cloud Based Load test with Visual Studio
Lesson 8. Analyze Result Charts
