Software Engineering Training in Portugal

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level technical professionals who wish to use IDz and z/OS Connect to integrate mainframe applications with APIs and modernize legacy workflows.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up and use IDz for mainframe application development.
• Leverage z/OS Connect to expose mainframe applications as RESTful APIs.
• Integrate COBOL, CICS, and DB2 programs with modern systems.
• Implement best practices for API security and performance optimization.
• Troubleshoot and debug integrated systems.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level software developers and engineers who wish to effectively manage and troubleshoot software licenses in their organizations or projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the basic concepts of software licensing and how FlexLM manages licenses.
• Learn how to install the FlexLM server and client software on different operating systems.
• Create, distribute, and manage licenses, including floating and node-locked licenses.
• Identify and resolve common problems related to license installation, distribution, and usage.

The ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level – Test Automation Engineer (CTAL-TAE) is a globally recognized certification focused on designing, developing, and maintaining test automation solutions in real-world environments.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level software testers and automation professionals who wish to gain practical, exam-oriented knowledge aligned with the official CTAL-TAE syllabus and succeed in their certification exam.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the CTAL-TAE syllabus and certification objectives.
• Design and implement scalable and maintainable test automation architectures.
• Evaluate and select appropriate automation tools and frameworks.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply structured methods to plan, develop, and maintain automated test solutions.
• Practice with exam simulations and gain familiarity with real test formats.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at professionals who wish to learn and understand the concept of software measurement and use it to estimate and size any software development process and productivity.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the use of software measurements and metrics in software development.
• Track progress and assess productivity using the software metrics.
• Analyze software measurement data for quality assurance and process improvement.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level participants who wish to solve everyday workplace challenges through gamification techniques.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of Design Thinking and its application to problem-solving.
• Incorporate gamification techniques to foster engagement and innovation.
• Develop creative and practical solutions to common workplace issues.
• Collaborate effectively across teams to implement problem-solving strategies.
• Apply iterative approaches to refine solutions through feedback and experimentation.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at professionals who wish to understand the concept of function point measurement and how to incorporate it into the software development productivity measurement.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand function point and non-function point measurements in software development.
• Measure the units of a software product for quality and productivity analysis.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at developers and testers who wish to perform test automation using C# and Selenium.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Selenium WebDriver.
• Write tests using Selenium, C#, and Nunit with Visual Studio IDE.
• Run C# Selenium test automation.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level Java developers who wish to apply design patterns to improve software structure, maintainability, and scalability.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and benefits of design patterns.
• Apply Creational, Structural, and Behavioral patterns effectively in Java.
• Improve code reusability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Refactor existing codebases using design patterns.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at operators and testers who wish to use EasyTest for testing applications or systems.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure EasyTest.
• Use EasyTest for testing systems and application features.
• Automate and maintain scripts in EasyTest.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at professionals who wish to learn how to use SNAP in project measurement and estimation.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn about the SNAP and FPA rules and guidelines.
• Be able to plan and estimate software projects better.
• Understand process performance baselines and identify areas for process improvement.
• Utilize SNAP to increase performance efficiency and obtain functional stability.

This introductory course is designed to familiarize testing professionals with the basics of testing web applications using Selenium. Testers can build, enhance, and maintain scripts using both the Selenium IDE and the Selenium 2 WebDriver.

Intended Audience

The target audience is software testers who are seeking to automate the testing of web applications using Selenium. These testers maybe new to test automation and may also include quality assurance practitioners, managers, or team leaders who are responsible for interacting with testers or who need to ensure that the tools are being implemented fully and appropriately.

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Describe the function and purpose of Selenium
• Understand the benefits and proper approach to test automation
• Record automated test cases
• Play back automated test cases
• Apply and use different verification techniques
• View and analyze results
• Configure and use the Selenium RC (Remote Control)
• Create and work with test suites
• Schedule automatic test runs
• Utilize different Selenium script formats
• Modify scripts to extend the capability to test the application
• Configure Selenium with Eclipse and the Selenium 2 WebDriver
• Understand and use RTTS helper files
• Convert selenium code to work with the Selenium 2 WebDriver
• Configure Custom Log Files
• Create a custom object map
• Create reusable modules to reduce script maintenance
• Use tools to help identify XPath

This is a practical course designed for manual testers in order to facilitate automated testing.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal is designed for anyone interested in learning C# for the purpose of automation testing. It is a streamlined, intensive course with plenty of hands-on exercises to get participants ramped up quickly with the essential programming skills needed to apply in software automation testing. The focus is on the C# fundamentals which can be directly and immediately applied to test automation.

This course does not cover in depth test automation frameworks such as Selenium. If you are already versed in C# and wish to get straight into testing with Selenium, please check out: Selenium WebDriver in C#: Introduction to web testing automation in C#.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at software testers who wish to use Selenium and Katalon Studio to create end-to-end automated testing solutions.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Generate and execute cross-platform tests for any OS or device.
• Integrate automated testing into a CI/CD pipeline.
• Automate web testing, API testing, mobile testing, and desktop testing.

Agile Software Testing is a series of testing practice that provides feesback to software quality issues in a timely and continuous manner following the principles of agile development.

Continuous Integration (CI) refers to all developers in a team merging their work several times a day.

TDD, or Test Driven Development, is an approach to developing software where coding, testing, and design occur in tandem throughout the software development cycle. Agile is a broader process and management approach to software development that emphasizes incremental delivery, team collaboration, continual planning, and continual learning.

In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to write high-quality C applications using a TDD and Agile development approach. Participants will put their knowledge into practice by carrying out a series of hands-on exercises to create a well-designed and well-tested C application.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure development and testing tools needed to carry out TDD
• Design, develop and unit test a C application using a TDD approach
• Apply planning and management practices of Agile development

Audience

• Developers
• Project managers

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Notes

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live workshop in Portugal begins with an introduction to BDD, what it is and how it is used by companies to promote good software design, development and testing. We do this from a non-engineering point-of-view, with an eye on the end-users, their requirements, language, and way of thinking. We also address the communication challenges that business stakeholders are likely to encounter as they work closer with their technical-minded peers.

By the end of this training, participants will know how to:

• Write succinct user stories that capture the usage patterns of real users of the software.
• Translate their user stories into the behavioral language of BDD (Given, When, Then.)
• Derive test cases from these stories, for use by engineers to implement and test.
• Understand the relationship between product requirements, acceptance criteria, and test cases.
• Demystify the technical jargon that impedes communication and understanding.
• Install and use great tools for writing BDD feature files.
• Understand and appreciate what happens once the work is handed to engineers.
• Play a more active role in the iterative development cycle.

The essence of the training and workshops is to provide knowledge, tools and techniques
increasing the effectiveness of activities related to the identification of business value in
based on the client's needs and care for obtaining a consensus between functions,
technology and quality in the process of creating requirements using techniques
brain storm.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Cucumber is an open-source, BDD framework for writing tests in a natural language style.  BDD, or Behavior Driven Development, is an agile software development technique that encourages collaboration among developers, QA and non-technical business people in a software project.

This training begins with a discussion of BDD and how Cucumber is used to carry out BDD testing for web applications. Participants are given ample opportunity to interact with the instructor and peers while implementing the concepts and tactics learned in this hands-on, practice-based lab environment.

By the end of this training, participants will have a firm understanding of BDD and Cucumber, as well as the necessary practice and toolset to write their own test cases for real-world software test scenarios.

Format of the course

• Heavy emphasis on hands-on practice.
• Most of the concepts are learned through samples, exercises and hands-on development.

Note

• This training uses Eclipse and Selenium. If you wish to use a different IDE or test automation framework, please contact us to arrange.
• If your team is moving from manual testing to automation testing for the first time, please contact us to arrange extending the training to include additional coverage of automation testing.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at persons who wish to learn how to carry out a successful design sprint within their organization.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Reduce the risk of bringing a new product to market.
• Gather feedback from customers on a new concept, before the product is built.
• Stir up creativity in a team to make critical decisions, faster.

In this instructor-led, live workshop training in Portugal (online or onsite), participants will learn how to apply the five stages of Design Thinking to better understand the problems experienced by end-users of a product or service, then develop the best approach for resolving them.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use creative strategies to match customers' needs with technologically feasible solutions.
• Formulate a strategy to increase customer value and enhance product and service offerings.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level PHP developers who wish to apply design patterns effectively in their projects.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and benefits of design patterns.
• Identify and implement appropriate design patterns for common scenarios.
• Structure PHP applications using industry-recognized best practices.
• Integrate patterns into modern frameworks such as Symfony or Zend.

This instructor-led, live training in Portugal (online or onsite) is aimed at test engineers and developers who wish to learn how to test a complex web application using Iridium. 

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create end-to-end tests that simulate the actions of a user as they navigate a web application.
• Automate the testing of themed applications with multiple styles.
• Create test cases that are readable to non-technical people.
• Execute tests in a wide variety of browsers.
• Use the Iridium Snippets package for Atom to facilitate test script writing.
• Reduce the costs of maintaining custom Java code and page objects.

Audience

• Testing Managers
• Performance testers or Performance engineers
• Developers who want grow their career in performance testing.

Format of the course

40% lectures, 60% labs

Who Should Attend

• Anyone looking to use ‘Test Automation with Selenium Web Driver’ within a business or for personal use

Overview

• Learn how to have confidence understanding Test Automation with Selenium Web Driver
• Learn how to use the information of the course to your advantage

Software Engineering starts where programming stops. In this course you will learn a solid foundation in Software Engineering. It builds a bridge from programming to solid engineering practices. The course gives you an overview of basic concepts and vocabulary typically used in the field. During the course, you will learn to use many techniques to plan, implement and validate software projects and to evaluate and improve development processes.

Audience:

This course is intended for software developers with various backgrounds who know at least one programming language.

With the emergence of very complex distributed systems, complexity of a single system moved to the complexity of the architecture of the group of systems. This course covers the relationship of Software Architecture with Technical Enterprise Architecture. These two areas are interrelated in a way which currently is not well described. For example, splitting complex monolithic system into two systems communicating via web services will trigger substantial changes to both the new systems, and the architecture between them.

This course will cover trade-offs, currently common patterns and solutions for managing complex systems and communication within and between them.

The Principal Engineer - Masterclass is for experienced and motivated engineers who already know how to ship production-ready code. This course will make you an exceptional software engineer/leader to make a big positive impact on your team and organization. In this course, you'll learn about System design and architecture, code reviewing techniques, mentoring and coaching engineers, pair programming, building strong engineering culture and other fundamentally important engineering practices.

This instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote) is aimed at:

• mid-level software engineer
• senior software engineer
• principal software engineer
• staff software engineer
• lead software engineer
• software architect
• engineering managers

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Promote to next level from mid-level or senior engineers
• If they are already leading a team or above senior engineers, they can start using tools, techniques and framework learnt from this course to:
  • effectively lead high performing engineering teams
  • 360° effective collaboration with all stakeholders
  • expertize core technical skills of a principal engineer
  • fostering strong engineering culture within the organization
  • master continuous learning attitude

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Tools, techniques and framework to become a unicorn engineer
• Real-life experience sharing

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

In this instructor-led, live training in Portugal, participants will learn about various JavaScript testing frameworks as they step through the creation of a unit test suite for a web application.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Write unit tests in JavaScript using unit test frameworks such as QUnit and Jasmine
• Use frameworks such as Mocha and Chai to implement TDD and BDD

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Maven.
• Automate Testing using Selenium
• Managing GIT
• Integrating continous integration

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.