Learning Objectives

By the end of the course you should know the following:

• Understand what key areas of coding a tester requires
• Understand how code can be used within technical testing
• Be able to evaluate developer code for testing purposes
• Understand how to code effectively to create automation frameworks
• Understand database essentials required for testing
• Coding fundamentals of object orientated languages such as Java and C#
• Understand the essential coding required for other technical testing tasks

Prerequisites

Preferable to have 12 months experience within software testing.

Course Topics:

• Programming
• The Tools
• An introduction to code sytnax
• Packages and Libraries
• Compiling code
• Version Control
• APIs
• Classes
• Types and Objects
• Variables
• Methods and Parameters
• Advanced Object Orientated Principles (inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism)
• An introduction to SQL
• A look at the DOM
• An introduction to HTML
• An introduction to XPath and CSS
• An introduction to javascript
• Unit tests
• Test Fixtures and assertions
• Test Execution
• Code Comments
• Coding Style