Test Automation with Python | PyTest Essentials (TTPS4832)

Overview

Test Automation with Python / PyTest Essentials is a three day, hands-on course geared for QA professionals and testers with basic Python expertise that explores automated testing with PyTest. You’ll gain proficiency in writing clear and effective automated tests, organizing and managing test cases, and utilizing PyTest’s fixtures for optimal configuration of test environments. You’ll also explore interpreting test reports for actionable insights and employing best practices for maintainable test suites. The program emphasizes practical, hands-on experience, guided by an expert, with 50% of the course dedicated to interactive labs, ensuring that you’ll develop real-world skills that are directly applicable to their daily work in modern business enterprises.

Throughout the course you’ll learn and practice with core functionalities of PyTest, such as parameterization to maximize test coverage and the use of markers for test selection. By exploring PyTest’s powerful built-in features, you’ll learn how to streamline your testing process and learn how to work with complex testing scenarios. The focus on organizing tests and adopting PyTest conventions will provide you with an in-depth, practical understanding of efficient test structuring, critical for swift troubleshooting and agile adaptation in fast-paced development environments. Lastly, you’ll learn how to apply these skills in a practical way, making you job ready right after class. You’ll exit this course equipped with the skills required to construct robust test suites and advance your testing capabilities.

Audience Profile

This in an introductory-level course geared for QA, Test team members and others who want to use the Python testing framework PyTest to implement code testing strategies. Attendees should have prior basic Python scripting experience. Students should have some familiarity with tools to be used in this course: PyCharm, Jupyter Notebook and basic GIT.

At Course Completion

This course combines engaging instructor-led presentations and useful demonstrations with valuable hands-on labs and engaging group activities. Throughout the course you’ll explore:

Become proficient with pytest from day one by solving real-world testing problems
Use pytest to write tests more efficiently
Scale from simple to complex and functional testing
Write and run simple and complex tests
Organize tests in fles and directories
Find out how to be more productive on the command line
Markers and how to skip, xfail and parametrize tests
Explore fxtures and techniques to use them effectively, such as tmpdir, pytestconfg, and monkeypatch
Convert unittest suites to pytest using little-known techniques

If your team requires different topics, additional skills or a custom approach, our team will collaborate with you to adjust the course to focus on your specific learning objectives and goals.

Outline

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We’ll work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most. Topics, agenda and labs are subject to change, and may adjust during live delivery based on audience skill level, interests and participation.

Prerequisites

Take Before: Students should have incoming practical skills aligned with those in the course(s) below, or should have attended the following course(s) as a pre-requisite:

Python Programming Basics (3 days)