Introduction to Programming with Python

Course available to schedule for your team

Concepts

Why should QA and testing professionals be familiar with the basics of computer programming? First, understanding how the software under test was created might provide valuable insights for designing, executing, and reporting tests. Second, test automation is the continuation of testing by means of programming - and understanding the basics of software programming is a necessary pre-requisite for acquiring automation skills. Third, being able to write simple programs can frequently help in generating test data, obtaining output files, and other common testing tasks.
The goal of the course is to make testing professionals familiar with the basics of Python in order to increase their testing expertise and prepare them for acquiring test automation skills.
The course will include multiple exercises.

Prerequisites

Installations
- PC laptop with Microsoft Windows operating system and Admin rights; specific installation information will be passed prior to training, if needed
- Google Chrome installed

Participants will learn:

Basic programming concepts
Principles of procedural programming
Foundations of the Python programming

Outline:

What the course is about
- Scope: what do we cover in depth, what do we glance over, what we do not cover
- Goals: what will we learn
- Administrative items
Why is programming important
- Understanding where bugs come from
- Test automation
- Automating common testing tasks
Basic programming concepts
- Algorithms
- Code
- Programming languages
- Compilers and interpreters
- Control structures
- Values, variables and constants
- Assignment
- Types
Procedural programming
- Subroutines and functions
- Writing procedural code
Python IDEs
Executing Python programs
Python
- Variables
- Assignments
- Lists and nested lists
- Control structures
Python libraries
Object-oriented software development
- Classes and objects
- Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism
HTML basics