Software testing and Automation of APIs with UFT/QTP

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Quick Intro to UFT's API Tests

Lecture 1: All notes and code related to the entire course

Lecture 2: Introduction To API Testing With UFT

Lecture 3: What is an API?

Lecture 4: What Is a SOAP API?

Lecture 5: Your automation testing struggles?

Lecture 6: How To Create A Quick API Test In UFT

Lecture 7: Applications Can Communicate With Each Other Using Xml

Lecture 8: Some Key Points Related To Testing APIs

Lecture 9: Benefits Of APITesting

Lecture 10: Concluding statements

Chapter 2: A few more tricks regarding UFT's API Tests

Lecture 1: Intro to the next UFT Topics

Lecture 2: UFT Properties Tab, Inputs Tab, Events Tab

Lecture 3: UFT Tools Pane

Lecture 4: UFT Canvas Pane, Test Settings Tab, Test Input-output, Test Variables Tab,

Lecture 5: Passing An Output Of One Action As The Input Into Another Action

Lecture 6: Adding A Third Step, Running The Test And Checking The Results

Lecture 7: Linking The Report Message To Different Dynamic Variables

Lecture 8: Concluding Statements Before Digging Into Web Services Testing

Chapter 3: How Do I Test Web Services?

Lecture 1: Introduction to the next topics regarding UFT

Lecture 2: All the URIs and WSDLs used in this course

Lecture 3: SOAP Web Services And The WSDL

Lecture 4: Starting To Test Web Services Through Positive Test Cases

Lecture 5: Generating A Positive Web Service Test Case

Lecture 6: Test Web Services By Making Sure That They Act As The End User Expects

Lecture 7: Test Web Services By Testing Their Performance

Lecture 8: Test Web Services By Making Sure That Unexpected Loads Can Be Handled

Lecture 9: Test Web Services Through Negative Scenarios

Lecture 10: How To Set Up A Checkpoint In A API Test

Chapter 4: HTTP Requests and Automated Testing

Lecture 1: Setting Up An HTTP Test In UFT And Running It

Lecture 2: Breaking Down 3 Parts Of An Http Request

Lecture 3: Possible Options Of The Http Request

Lecture 4: Testing HTTP Status Codes

Lecture 5: Concluding Statements Regarding Http Requests

Lecture 6: Some Learning Advice Regarding Unified Functional Testing

Lecture 7: The Disadvantages Of Soap Web Services

Lecture 8: Soap Testing Is On The Decline, Restful Testing Is The Future

Chapter 5: How To Test REST APIs Using UFT

Lecture 1: Introduction To Rest APIs

Lecture 2: Understanding Rest

Lecture 3: Looking At 1 Rest Service

Lecture 4: Another Restful Uri

Lecture 5: A 3rd Example Of A Restful Uri

Lecture 6: A 4th example of a RESTful URI

Lecture 7: Setting up a REST URI in UFT and running a test

Lecture 8: Running a REST API test and seeing the results

Lecture 9: Analyzing a JSON from UFT

Lecture 10: Using the Postman Extension in Chrome

Lecture 11: How to update a REST API in UFT

Lecture 12: Concluding words on REST APIs in UFT

Chapter 6: Why is API automated testing critical?

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: API testing skills are becoming very important

Lecture 3: Description of the API that we will be working with

Lecture 4: Testing an API with UFT is faster than testing a GUI

Lecture 5: What is the automated testing pyramid?

Lecture 6: How can API testing improve an employer's ROI

Lecture 7: How do complex applications interact with each other

Lecture 8: Understanding the 2 tier architecture of RESTful services

Lecture 9: Conclusions regarding why API testing is important

Chapter 7: What automated tests to create and when

Lecture 1: What is the testing progression

Lecture 2: What is a smoke test

Lecture 3: Opening UFT

Lecture 4: How to start running the API service in UFT

Lecture 5: Getting familiar with the Flights API

Lecture 6: How to add a REST service to a UFT test

Lecture 7: How to model an API test in UFT

Lecture 8: Setting up a quick smoke test using a Get

Lecture 9: Setting up a quick smoke test with UFT

Lecture 10: What are CRUD operations

Lecture 11: Setting up an API test using a POST

Lecture 12: Modeling the Input Properties of a REST API

Lecture 13: Modeling the Response Properties of a REST API

Lecture 14: How to run a Create method using UFT

Lecture 15: How to move the REST service to a global repository

Lecture 16: How to create a Read method using UFT

Lecture 17: How to upload a XML file into the response body of UFT

Lecture 18: Starting to create an update action in UFT

Lecture 19: Analyzing a PUT request in Postman

Lecture 20: How to execute a PUT and GET

Lecture 21: How to create a PUT request using UFT

Lecture 22: How to create a test user for deleting purposes

Lecture 23: How to create a Delete http request in UFT

Lecture 24: Saving the UFT API test as a smoke test suite

Chapter 8: How to create a data driven framework for APIs using UFT

Lecture 1: Introduction to the Testing Tree

Lecture 2: One example of a negative test case

Lecture 3: More examples of different types of test cases

Lecture 4: More examples of tests

Lecture 5: How to test primitive data types and dates

Lecture 6: How to test date fields

Lecture 7: How to move a UFT solution to a new location

Lecture 8: How to start testing a field of a method

Lecture 9: Each test case should be responsible for itself

Lecture 10: Creating test data for UFT

Lecture 11: Analyzing the test data for UFT API