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Automated Software Testing with Python

Welcome

How to take this course

Installing Python and PyCharm on Windows

Installing Python and PyCharm on Mac OS

A Full Python Refresher

Introduction to this section

Variables in Python

Coding Exercise 1: variables

String formatting in Python

Getting user input

Writing our first Python app

Lists, tuples, and sets

Advanced set operations

Coding Exercise 2: lists, tuples and sets

Booleans in Python

If statements

The 'in' keyword in Python

If statements with the 'in' keyword

Loops in Python

Coding Exercise 3: flow control-loops and ifs

List comprehensions in Python

Dictionaries

Destructuring variables

Functions in Python

Function arguments and parameters

Default parameter values

Functions returning values

Coding Exercise 4: functions

Lambda functions in Python

Dictionary comprehensions

Coding Exercise 5: dictionaries and students

Unpacking arguments

Unpacking keyword arguments

Object-Oriented Programming in Python

Magic methods: str and repr

Coding Exercise 6: classes and objects

@classmethod and @staticmethod

Coding Exercise 7: @classmethod and @staticmethod

Class inheritance

Class composition

Type hinting in Python 3.5+

Imports in Python

Relative imports in Python

Errors in Python

Custom error classes

First-class functions

Simple decorators in Python

The 'at' syntax for decorators

Decorating functions with parameters

Decorators with parameters

Mutability in Python

Mutable default parameters (and why they're a bad idea)

Your first automated software test

Access the code for this section here

Setting up our project

Important: the naming of test files

Writing our first test

Testing dictionary equivalence

Writing blog tests and PyCharm run configurations

The repr method, and intro to TDD

Integration tests and finishing the blog

Mocking, patching, and system tests

Patching the input method and returning values

Taking our patching further

The last few patches!

The TestCase setUp method

Testing a Flask Endpoint

Setting our project up

Creating our Flask app

Our first System test

Refactoring our System Tests

REST API Testing, Part I

A look at a REST API with Flask

Unit testing a REST API

Setting up our generic BaseTest

Integration testing a REST API

REST API Testing, Part II

Setting up our project

Testing foreign key constraints with Python

Unit testing models and SQLAlchemy mappers

Finishing our Store tests

System testing a REST API

Setting project up and creating User model

Change to the next lecture's code

Allowing users to log in

Writing our User tests

The setUpClass method in the BaseTest

Testing user registration

Finalising user System tests

Writing Store System tests

Writing our Item System tests and testing authentication

System testing with Postman and Newman

Introduction to Postman

Our first Posman tests

Setting and clearing environment variables in Postman

Running a test folder in Postman

Advanced PyCharm run configurations

Installing Node and Newman

Multirun in PyCharm—Running app and tests together

Continuous Integration with Travis CI

Installing Git

What is a Git repository?

A local Git workflow

GitHub and remote repositories

Adding our project to GitHub

What is Travis CI?

Adding our repository to Travis

The Travis config file and running tests

Adding our test badge to the Readme

Acceptance testing and browser automation with Selenium

What is acceptance testing?

Introduction to our project

Our first acceptance test step

Getting the Chrome webdriver

Verifying everything works

Finishing our first test

Re-using steps with the regular expression matcher

Our first content test

Page locators and models

The blog page

Using pages in navigation

Don't over-generalise tests!

Waits and timeouts with Selenium

Debugging acceptance tests in PyCharm

Our final complex scenario

Filling in forms with Selenium

Your first automated software test

Writing our first test

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