Learn API Automation Testing with Python & BDD Framework

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: What will you learn from this course? – MUST WATCH

Lecture 1: FAQ's about the course

Lecture 2: Installing Python library, Pip Client and Pycharm Editor

Lecture 3: Important note for MAC Users

Lecture 4: Important Note before watching next section

Chapter 2: Learn Python Programming Basics from Scratch

Lecture 1: Python hello world Program with Basics

Lecture 2: Datatypes in python and how to get the Type at run time

Lecture 3: List Datatype and its operations to manipulate

Lecture 4: Tuple and Dictionary Data types in Python with examples

Lecture 5: How to Create Dictionaries at run time and add data into it

Lecture 6: If else condition in python with working examples

Lecture 7: How loops work in Python and importance of code idendation

Lecture 8: Programming examples using for loop – 1

Lecture 9: Programming examples using While loop – 2

Lecture 10: What are functions? How to use them in Python

Lecture 11: OOPS Principles : Classes and objects in Python

Lecture 12: What is Constructor and its role in Object oriented programming

Lecture 13: Inheritance concepts with examples in Python

Lecture 14: Strings and its functions in python

Lecture 15: How to read text file content using Python

Lecture 16: Importance of readLine and readLines Methods in python

Lecture 17: Writing Data into File using Python

Lecture 18: Code Download

Chapter 3: Read and Write to Json Files and parsing using Python Methods

Lecture 1: Where to download the code files?

Lecture 2: How to Parse Json Strings in Python? – Example

Lecture 3: Parse content in Json file into Dictionary – Example

Lecture 4: Parsing complex Json with nested Structure and extract values

Lecture 5: Compare two Json Schemas using Python Dictionaries with example

Chapter 4: API Automation Testing with Python Requests Library

Lecture 1: Install Python requests Library for API Automation

Lecture 2: Understanding Get http request calls and get response using Json method

Lecture 3: Validating response status codes and headers using response object

Lecture 4: Understand automating Post http request with Payload and headers

Lecture 5: End to end automation flow of API calls using Python

Chapter 5: Setting up Global Properties and OAuth Mechanism for API Testing

Lecture 1: Setting global configurations using Python Config object

Lecture 2: Optimizing resources and payload from externally as reusable data

Lecture 3: Authenticating API's using Python Automation auth method- Example

Lecture 4: Section 3- 5 Code Download

Chapter 6: API Testing Request Library Miscellaneous Concepts

Lecture 1: Importance of Session Managing in API Testing

Lecture 2: Send and Manage cookies for API request calls

Lecture 3: Time out and Redirection attributes in making request calls

Lecture 4: Sending Attachments through Post request call using Files Dictionary object

Lecture 5: Code Snippet download

Chapter 7: Build SQL Utility to interact with Database Tables from Python Code

Lecture 1: Setting up MYSQL Instance to drive the data from Python Code

Lecture 2: Setup Database with the Example Table Data and start Connection

Lecture 3: SQL Queries download

Lecture 4: Executing Queries on to Database from Python Code

Lecture 5: Iterate over database table results set from Python and parse the results

Lecture 6: Create Connection utility and pass the SQL connection externally into test

Chapter 8: Integrate Database utilities to API Test for End to end Automation

Lecture 1: Integrate Database results into API Test Data to build functional flow

Lecture 2: Code Download

Chapter 9: BDD Framework Development for API Automation from Scratch

Lecture 1: What are the BDD tools we use to Automate in Python Language

Lecture 2: Install Behave and download Python Professional edition

Lecture 3: Create Step Definition file with auto generated syntaxes and annotations

Lecture 4: Implement API Automation actual logic into step Definitions

Lecture 5: Implement Hooks for the scenarios by defining environment.py file

Lecture 6: Implement Parameterization to the Test Scenarios using Example outline Keywords

Lecture 7: Use Tagging mechanism to run selected tests in framework

Lecture 8: Best practices to write reusable step definitions code for API test Scenarios

Lecture 9: Integrate Tagging and hooks to build generalize BDD code for Python API Tests

Lecture 10: Generate Allure reports for Python API BDD Framework

Lecture 11: Complete Code Download

Chapter 10: Read and Write to CSV files with Parsing using Python methods

Lecture 1: Parsing and reading the CSV files using Python csv package

Lecture 2: Building a logic to get the data from CSV based on conditional query

Lecture 3: Parsing and writing back to CSV files using Python csv package

Lecture 4: Where to download code files?

Chapter 11: Python paramiko Utility to communicate with AWS Linux Servers

Lecture 1: Setting up AWS Linux EC2 Instance for solving the project

Lecture 2: Setting up SSH connection in AWS Linux instances

Lecture 3: Install Paramiko Package to establish connection to Servers

Chapter 12: Execute Batch Jobs on Linux Servers through Python SSH Utilities

Lecture 1: Execute commands on Linux Servers from your local machine using Python code

Lecture 2: SFTP Connection to upload and download from server using Python Paramiko

Lecture 3: Example in running batch commands on Linux Servers using Python code

Chapter 13: Web Scrapping to extract content for DataScience Projects using Python

Lecture 1: What is Web Scrapping in Python?

Lecture 2: Beautiful Soap package for Scrapping the content on web pages

Lecture 3: find and findAll methods to parse html content from web pages

Lecture 4: Scrapping Sub urls with href attribute concatenation to requests url

Lecture 5: End to end example of Web scrapping with Python

Lecture 6: Extracting the content from page based on the visible text scrapper

Chapter 14: Download the Full course Code files

Lecture 1: Download complete Project Code

Chapter 15: BONUS LECTURE

Lecture 1: Bonus lecture