Automation Testing

Course OverView

Software Testing Tools program is designed for any graduate with any stream. It is process oriented in Software Development Life Cycle. Through Software Testing Life Cycle, a Quality Analyst, analyze the software and providing assurance to client/end user.

STLC mainly focuses on Understanding Requirements, Test Planning, Test Design (Scenarios and Test Cases), Test Execution, Result Analysis, Defect Tracking and Reporting and etc. In Contemporary IT industry Quality is playing a major role.

In Testing Industry Test Automation Tools are playing major role, with the help of third party tools tester can able to perform retesting and regression testing. There are several popular tools in QA Industry like UFT, QTP, Quality Center, LoadRunner, SoapUI, Selenium etc… 

Automation Life Cycle Implementation Using
HP-QuickTest Professional-11.00
Introduction to Automation Testing

• What is Automation Testing?
• Benefits of Automation Testing?
• Manual Testing vs. Automation Testing
• Types of Automation Testing Tools
• Tool selection Criteria
• Automation Testing Process
• When should Test Automation be used?
• When should Test Automation be avoided?

Introduction to QuickTest

• Overview of Add-In Manager and QuickTest
• QuickTest Window and Tools
• QuickTest Commands
• Tools in QuickTest

 Record and Playback

• Recording a Test
• Understanding your recorded Test
• Executing a Test
• Different Recording Levels
• Default Recording
• Analog Recording
• Low Level Recording
• Analyzing the Results

Introduction to VB Script
Introduction to VBScript

• Difference between Languages and Scripts
• VB script Language Overview
• History of VBScript
• VBScript and Versions
• Difference between Languages and Scripting

Comments

• Purpose of comments:
• Types of Comments
• Comments and Shortcut keys

VB Script Variables

• Declaring Variables
• Option Explicit
• Naming Restrictions for Variables
• Scope of Variables
• Life Time of Variables
• Assigning Values to Variables
• Scalar Variables and Array Variables
• Dynamic Arrays

VB Script Data Types

• Variant Subtypes

VB Script Operators

• Operator Precedence
• Arithmetic Operators
• Comparison Operators
• Logical Operators
• String Manipulation

Input/Output Operations

• InputBox Function
• MsgBox Function

Constants

• Creating Constants

Conditional Statements

• If Statement
• If…Then….Else Statement
• If…Then….ElseIf Statement
• Select…Case Statement

Loop through Code

• Do…Loop
• Do Until
• While…Wend
• For…Next
• For Each…Next

Other Statements
Procedures

• Sub Procedures
• Function Procedures

Error Handling

• Handling Syntax & Runtime Errors
• Coding to Avoid Errors
• Coding to Handle Errors
• The Error Object
• The Raise Method

Built-In Functions

• String Functions
• Math Functions
• Date and Time Functions

Debugging

• Why Debug
• Types of Bugs
• Stepping Though Code
• Watching Variable Values

Regular Expressions
Methods
Objects
Introduction to Objects

• What are Objects?
• Properties Defined
• Methods Defined
• Events Defined
• Referencing Objects

Properties
Classes
Keywords

Working with Test Objects and Object Repositories

• Object Repository Introduction
• How Objects are added into OR
• Identifying the Objects
• Viewing the Object Properties
• Object Repository Modes
• Per-Action vs. Shared Object Repository
• Object SPY
• OI Introduction
• User Defined Objects
• Smart Identification
• Managing Object Repositories
• Merging Shared Object Repositories
• Associating Shared Object Repositories to a Test
• Merging Object Repositories

Synchronization 

• What is Synchronization?
• Synchronizing Your Tests
• Synchronization Methods
• Adding Wait Property Method
• Adding Wait Method, Adding Exist method
• Adding Sync Method
• Global Synchronization Settings
• Browser vs. Page Sync()
• Web Event Recording Configuration

Checkpoints

• Introduction
• Adding Checkpoints while recording
• Types of Checkpoints
• Standard Checkpoint
• Text Checkpoint, Text area Checkpoint
• Bitmap Checkpoint
• Database Checkpoint
• Accessibility Checkpoint
• XML from Resource Checkpoint
• XML from Application Checkpoint
• Page Checkpoint, Table Checkpoint
• Image Checkpoint
• Updating Checkpoints at run time

Output values                                                                        

• Introduction
• Types of Output Values
• Creating Output values
• Storing output values

Actions

• Introduction to Actions
• Types of Actions, Creating Actions
• Inserting Call to Actions
• Insert Call to Copy of Action
• Insert Call to Existing Action
• Splitting Actions
• Input and Output Parameters
• Action Template

Parameterization Tests and Data Driven Tests

• What is Parameterization?
• Parameterizing a Test Manually
• Parameterizing Using Actions
• Parameterizing Using DataTables
• Parameterizing Using Environment Variables
• Built-in Environment Variables
• Internal Environment variables
• External Environment Variables
• Parameterizing Using Random Number

Working with DataTables

• Introduction
• Working with global and Action Sheets
• Editing and Saving DataTables
• DataTable Methods
• DataTables and Database
• Importing and Exporting Data to/ from Spread Sheet

Regular Expressions

• Introduction to Regular Expressions
• Defining Regular Expressions
• Running and Analyzing Regular Expressions
• Regular Expression Characters
• When to use Regular Expressions in QuickTest

Functions

• Introduction
• Creating User Defined Functions
• Advantages if Using functions
• Creating generic Functions
• Function Decomposition
• Read from Excel
• Write to Excel
• Step Generator

Recovery Scenarios

• Introduction to Trigger Events
• When to use Recovery Scenarios?
• Default Recovery Scenarios
• Recovery Function call
• Recovery Scenario Manager
• Error Handling
• Creating Recovery files
• Associating Recovery files

Virtual Objects

• Introduction
• What is Virtual Object?
• Creating Virtual Object
• Virtual Object Manager
• Entire Parent hierarchy
• Parent only

Mapping User-Defined Test Object Classes

• Introduction
• Object Mapping
• Standard Classes

Debugging in QuickTest

• Establishing our Debugging Configuration
• Using Break Points
• Step Into, Step Out and Step Over
• Debug viewer Pane
• Working with Watch Expressions Tab
• Working with the Variables Tab
• Working with the Command Tab

Library Files

• Associating a Library globally with a test
• Dynamically Loading libraries locally at run-time
• Dynamically Loading libraries globally at run-time
• Applicability of Option Explicit

Working with Databases

• Introduction
• Checking the state of Connection or Recordset
• Database Connectivity
• MS Access, SQL Server and Oracle
• Exporting the results of a query to DataTable

Working with Flat Files

• Introduction
• Types Flat Files, Modes of Flat Files
• Advantages FSO

Utility Objects

• The Crypt Object
• The OptionalStep Object, The PathFinder Object
• The SystemUtil Object, The RegisterUserFunc Object
• The Services Object, With— End with
• Transactional Statements

QTP Automation Object Model

• Introduction
• Automation QuickTest Operations
• When to use AOM Scripts
• How can we use AOM to launch QuickTest on Remote Machine

HTML DOM

• What is HTML?
• When to use HTML DOM?
• When not to use HTML DOM?
• HTML DOM Objects
• JavaScript Events and Actions
• Converting a DOM object QTP Test Object

Working with Web Tables

• Introduction
• Accessing the web tables
• Clicking inside the web table
• Row count
• Column Count
• GetCellData
• ChildItemsCount

Working with MS Excel and MS Word

• Introduction
• The Excel Automation Object Model
• The Word Automation Object Model

Descriptive Programming

• Introduction
• Advantages of  Descriptive Programming
• When to use Descriptive Programming
• Descriptive Programming syntax
• Using description objects
• The micclass Identifier
• Converting OR based script to a DP-based script
• Types DP/PD Methods

Implementing Test Automation Frame Works in Real Time Project

• Introduction
• Design Guide lines
• Advantages of Frame Work
• Types of Automation frameworks
• Support different application versions
• Implementing in Real Time Environment
• Disadvantages of frameworks

Performance Test Automation with

LOADRUNNER 11.00

Introduction

• Overview of LoadRunner
• The need of performance testing
• When load testing comes into process
• Performance Testing
• Stress Testing
• LoadRunner Architecture
• Loads Test Process

Performance Test Process

• Manual Load Testing
• Automation Load Testing
• Performance Test Approach
• Study system under test
• Create Vuser Script
• Execute Tests
• Analyze Test Results

Load Runner Components

• Virtual user generator
• Controller , Analysis

Load testing process

• Building Tests
• Running Load Tests
• Analyze the results
• Load Runner Controller
• Publish Reports

Browser Automation Testing Tool

SELENIUM-1.10.0

Introduction

• What is Automation Testing
• When it comes into the picture
• What are the uses of automation Testing

Introduction to Selenium

• What is Selenium
• Use of Selenium
• When Selenium can be useful in testing
• Features of Selenium
• Differences between Selenium and QTP

Selenium Components

• Selenium IDE
• Selenium RC
• Selenium Grid

Resume Preparation

• Conducting Mock Interviews
• Guidance for MNC Interviews