Software Testing Training in Évora

This instructor-led, live training in Évora (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level to advanced-level test engineers and automation specialists who wish to explore advanced TestStand features and techniques for maximizing test automation efficiency and effectiveness.

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

• Utilize advanced features and functionalities of TestStand to enhance test automation workflows.
• Customize user interfaces and develop advanced test sequences.
• Implement advanced result processing and reporting techniques.
• Integrate TestStand with external databases, systems, and hardware.
• Apply best practices for maintaining, managing, troubleshooting, and debugging complex test sequences.

This instructor-led, live training in Évora (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level professionals who wish to gain hands-on experience in planning, executing, and managing UAT processes effectively.

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

• Understand the role and importance of UAT in the software development lifecycle.
• Design and execute UAT test cases and scenarios.
• Use industry-standard tools to manage and track UAT progress.
• Identify, report, and track defects effectively.
• Collaborate with developers, testers, and stakeholders for successful UAT execution.

This instructor-led, live training in Évora (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level automation developers who wish to harness the power of BlazeMeter for automation tasks, enabling them to build intelligent and interactive automation solutions.

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

• Understand the fundamentals of BlazeMeter and its role in automation.
• Utilize BlazeMeter to automate tasks and processes.
• Develop custom automation solutions using BlazeMeter.
• Apply best practices for leveraging BlazeMeter in automation projects.

This instructor-led, live training in Évora (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level testers who wish to learn how to use BlazeMeter for testing tasks, enabling them to design and execute comprehensive tests, analyze and report results, and monitor and optimize performance.

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

• Understand the fundamentals of BlazeMeter and its features and benefits.
• Use BlazeMeter to create and run various types of tests.
• Analyze and report test results and metrics.
• Monitor and optimize test performance and quality.
• Apply best practices for using BlazeMeter in testing projects.

This instructor-led, live training in Évora (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 Évora (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level testers who wish to learn how to execute performance testing using the LoadRunner Enterprise platform.

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

• Understand the fundamentals of performance testing and its importance in software development.
• Effectively plan and design performance tests based on business requirements and system specifications.
• Configure and manage test environments, including servers, networks, and client systems.
• Execute performance tests, monitor system resources, and collect relevant performance metrics.
• Analyze test results and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Generate comprehensive reports to communicate test findings and recommendations.

This course covers the creation and implementation of functional and unit testing with Apache JMeter, the free application testing software from The Apache Software Foundation. The purpose of the course is to allow organizations to completely automate their various testing requirements, saving time, money, and helping to minimize the risk of human error in testing. The program explores the concepts of designing and creating test plans for real-world web applications using Apache JMeter, including functional, regression and stress testing plans. Participants will learn how to design test plans for a variety of purposes and to use the various components and functions within JMeter to their advantage, permitting them to completely automate the web application testing process.

In this instructor-led, live training in Évora, participants learn first-hand how to write Protractor tests against a sample Angular web application in a live lab environment.

By the end of this course, participants will have gained proficiency in Protractor and be comfortable

• creating their own automation tests for Angular applications.
• integrating Protractor into their existing development workflow.
• ensuring that their tests are clean and maintainable.
• running Protractor with or without Selenium to drive browser behavior.

In this instrucor-led, live training in Évora participants will learn how to write high quality tests by employing "screenplays" and the idea of "actors, tasks, and goals" to express tests in business terms rather than as interactions between system components. We look at both functional and UI testing scenarios and demonstrate how Serenity can be used to manage their testing. All lecture, notes, quizes and discussions are accompanied by live hands-on practice and implementation.

By the end of this training, participants will understand the Serenity framework and be able to utilize it with comfort. As important, participants will learn to think of and approach test automation from a different light.

This course has been created for test managers, quality assurance staff, testers, software developers, project managers and management in order to explain how the Agile project management frameworks (notably SCRUM) deal with testing.

At the end of the course, each of the delegates will design and execute a test plan for a sample application (it can be an actual client application if available)

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.

This course provides a brief introduction to Agile software testing. It deals with foundational test concepts, within the context of Agile (Scrum) development and uses Crispin & Gregory's (More Agile Testing, 2014) Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to explore contemporary principles and practices of Agile testing.

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.

Overview

This 2-day course provides a brief introduction to Agile software testing. It deals with foundational test concepts, within the context of Agile (Scrum) development and uses Crispin & Gregory’s (More Agile Testing, 2014) Agile Testing Quadrants model as a framework to explore contemporary principles and practices of Agile testing.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for development teams who want to improve their testing practices in an Agile context.

It is also suitable for those intending to pursue testing as a specific career and is a suitable pre-requisite for the iSQI Certified Agile Tester course.

This training program is designed to empower software QA engineers with essential AI knowledge and hands-on skills to enhance their testing productivity and software quality outcomes. Participants will gain a foundational understanding of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and their application in test automation, bug detection, test case generation, risk-based testing, and performance analysis.

Through a mix of theory, demos, and practical labs, QA professionals will learn how to leverage AI to reduce manual efforts, improve test coverage, and increase defect detection accuracy—thereby driving overall efficiency and effectiveness in QA processes

This instructor-led, live workshop in Évora 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 course covers contemporary development principles and practices, including the place of project management, testing and business analysis, within Agile and traditional Waterfall contexts.

The course is intended to be workshop-style with opportunities for delegates to ask questions and explore real life application of the content.

This course comprises a series of modules with each module designed to take 1.5hrs, ie 1 training day would consist of 4 modules.

Intended Audience

This course is aimed at those who want to gain a rapid overview of contemporary Waterfall & Agile software development and the impact on project management, testing and business analysis.

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 Évora (onsite or remote) is aimed at engineers who wish to use Jest to test React applications and components.

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

• Install and configure a proper testing environment.
• Write asynchronous tests for React apps and components.
• Run Jest advanced tests that include mocking, spies and stubs.

This course deals with advanced web application testing techniques. It focuses on full automation, scripting, integrating tests with external data source.

This instructor-led, live training in  (online or onsite) is aimed at developers, engineers, and architects seeking to secure their web apps and services.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to integrate, test, protect, and analyze their web apps and services using the OWASP testing framework and tools

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

Training is open to both developers, Scrum Masters, Product Owner and also some aspects of the business department. The purpose of training is to introduce topics Quality Assurance and Continuous Integration and their place in projects conducted agile methodologies. Participants will gain a broad perspective on the issues discussed as well as practical knowledge of the tools and processes of software development in line with the QA / CI. Representatives of business, will be able to know the benefits of implementing those tools and processes and translate into both the time and cost of software development. The issues presented are based on PHP or Java, depending on customer requirements.

In this instructor-led, live training in Évora, participants learn how to use Rest Assured to test REST API services. We discuss how API testing can resolve some of the shortcomings of UI and unit based testing. The training includes practice sessions and a test development project. By the end of the training, participants will have a good understanding of when to carry out REST API testing, how to explore and access APIs, how to carry out different types of testing, and how to bring their tests together through integration and automation.

This instructor-led, live training in Évora (online or onsite) is aimed at software test engineers who wish to learn how to write a set of test cases and a test suite, then execute the tests on a demo application.

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

• Use Robot Framework's keyword-driven testing approach and tabular test data syntax to write and execute tests.
• Use consistent syntax to compose new keywords from existing ones.
• Carry out Gherkin-style Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tests (similar to Cucumber).
• Generate and interpret Report and Logs to troubleshoot failures in the tested application.
• Extended Robot Framework's capabilities using third-party libraries written in Python, Java, Perl, Javascript and PHP.
• Integrate Robot Framework with Selenium for testing web applications.

This instructor-led, live training in (online or onsite) is aimed at DevOps engineers who wish to use Selenium to execute Selenium tests inside of Docker containers.

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

• Create test automation infrastructure for on-demand testing.
• Develop a test automation framework using Java.
• Build a CI/CD pipeline from scratch with Jenkins and Docker.

This course demonstrates through hands-on practice the fundamentals and applications of software engineering, requirements engineering and testing.

In this instructor-led, live training in Évora, participants will learn how to use TestComplete's features, including its test object model, check points, name mapping, and UI to carry out automated testing on desktop, web, and mobile applications.

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

• Create, record and run functional tests.
• Create a scalable and maintainable test framework.
• Create checkpoints, adjust tests for multiple devices and analyze test results.
• Use TestComplete's script extensions.

In this instructor-led, live training in Évora participants will learn how to use Tosca to carry out end-to-end (web + backend) testing. The training combines theory with practice in a live lab environment, giving participants the chance to interact with the technology, the instructor, and their peers.

The training starts with an overview of traditional code and script-based automation testing and contrasts it with Tosca's model-based (MBT) approach. Participants learn how to create and execute test cases using Tosca's default modules as well as how to custom-build their own modules for execution.

From software modeling principles to test coverage across different browsers, this training walks participants through both theory and practice and enables them to implement their own testing solution in Tosca.

TypeScript is an open source language for building enterprise Javascript applications. It is a strict superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain Javascript and brings static typing and object-oriented development to the language.

This instructor-led, live training introduces TypeScript's unit testing features and frameworks. Participants get a chance to put theory to practice by constructing a collection of unit tests that can be run against real-life applications.

Format of the Course

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

Course Customization Options

• This course will focus on the frameworks that can be used to unit test a Javascript or Typescript application (Jasmine, Mocha, Jest, Chai, etc.).
• UI frameworks such as React are optional and can be covered if desired.
• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.