Software Engineering Training in Olympia

This instructor-led, live training in Olympia (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 Olympia (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level software professionals who wish to leverage AI and machine learning to improve efficiency and innovation in software development.

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

• Understand the role of AI and machine learning in automating software development tasks.
• Implement AI tools to generate code, tests, and documentation.
• Apply AI techniques for code optimization, quality assurance, and debugging.
• Integrate AI into the DevOps and CI/CD pipelines for improved deployment strategies.
• Address ethical considerations and challenges in AI-augmented software engineering.

This instructor-led, live training in Olympia (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.

This instructor-led, live training in Olympia (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 Olympia (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 Olympia (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 Olympia (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level quality assurance engineers who wish to use Apache JMeter for software performance testing.

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

• Understand performance testing principles and the role of Apache JMeter.
• Install, configure, and navigate Apache JMeter to create and execute test plans.
• Design comprehensive test plans with advanced features like parameterization and scripting.
• Analyze test results to identify performance issues and optimize applications.
• Conduct distributed testing and apply best practices in real-world scenarios.

This instructor-led, live training in Olympia (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 instructor-led, live training in Olympia (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level software testing professionals who wish to become certified in TOSCA and demonstrate proficiency in test automation using Tricentis Tosca.

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

• Understand the TOSCA certification structure and requirements.
• Master TOSCA concepts, including test case design, automation, and execution.
• Apply best practices for building reusable and maintainable test cases.
• Prepare for the practical and theoretical components of the TOSCA certification exam.

This course provides training for handling testing projects and provides hands on experience with web applications, functional test automation and cross browser test automation using Selenium test suite.

Intended Audience:

• Software test engineers
• Software developers involved in agile development

At the end of Selenium training the delegates will be able to:

• Use Selenium test suite effectively in real projects
• Use Selenium for cross browser testing

This is back-to-back JMeter Fundamentals and JMeter Advanced courses offered together for convenience.

JMeter Fundamentals

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.

JMeter Advanced

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

In this instructor-led, live training in Olympia, participants learn how to test web services using SoapAPI. We discuss how API testing can resolve some of the shortcomings of UI and unit based testing. The training includes practice sessions and an API test suite development project.

By the end of the training, participants will have a firm idea of when to implement API testing, how to explore and access APIs, how to carry out different types of testing on both SOAP and REST based APIs, and how to bring their work together into an integrated, automated test suite.

This course has been created for test managers, testers, business analysts, designers, developers, administrators and anyone interested in planning and performing web application performance tests. It covers how to set up non-functional requirements, which indicators are most important in specific implementations, how to create a performance test plan, implement it in JMeter, execute it and analyse the results.

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 course provides training for handling testing projects using Selenium test suite and continuous testing with Jenkins.

Intended Audience:

• Software test engineers
• Software developers involved in agile development
• Release managers
• QA engineers

At the end of Selenium training the delegates will be able to:

• Use Selenium test suite effectively in real projects
• Use Selenium for cross browser testing
• Distribute the tests using Selenium Grid
• Run regression Selenium tests in Jenkins
• Prepare test reports and periodict reports using Jenkins

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

In this instructor-led, live training in Olympia, participants will learn how to enhance an automated test suite using advanced techniques to drive Selenium.

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

• Resolve complex web application test automation issues with Selenium.
• Apply regular expressions and pattern-based verification techniques.
• Handle exceptions that halt test execution.
• Programmatically search for web objects.
• Dynamically capture data from web controls.
• Create a data-driven testing framework.
• Distribute testing with Selenium Grid.

This instructor-led, live training in Olympia (online or onsite) introduces participants to automated testing with Selenium WebDriver and C# in Visual Studio. If you do not have C# programming experience or wish to brush up on C#, please check out the course: C# for Automation Test Engineers.

This instructor-led, live training in Olympia (online or onsite) is aimed at software testers who wish to use Cypress for automating tests.

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

• Perform end-to-end automation testing with Cypress.
• Implement integration and unit tests in a web application.
• Use Cypress as an alternative to Selenium.

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.

This course provides training for handling testing projects and provides hands on experience with web applications, functional test automation and cross browser test automation using Selenium test suite. Also, it comprehesively introduced jMeter.

Roughtly 2 days of JMeter and 3 days of Selenium.

In this instructor-led, live training in Olympia, 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 instructor-led, live training in Olympia participants combine the power of Python with Selenium to automate the testing of a sample web application. By combining theory with practice in a live lab environment, participants will gain the knowledge and practice needed to automate their own web testing projects using Python and Selenium.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to enhance an automated test suite using advanced techniques to drive Selenium.

Audience: software testers, test Managers, quality assurance professionals.

This instructor-led, live training in Olympia begins with a discussion of BDD and how the Behave framework can be 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 Behave, as well as the necessary practice to implement these techniques and tools in real-world test scenarios.

This instructor-led, live training in Olympia (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.

In this instrucor-led, live training in Olympia 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 gives a comprehensive overview how to use automated functional and performance testing with Selenium and JMeter using Java/Maven environment. 3 days is spend on Selenium, 2 on JMeter.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to write and maintain tests for Angular applications.

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

• Decide the most appropriate strategy for testing an Angular application
• Carry out unit testing, component testing, A/B testing and end-to-end on an Angular application
• Choose the right tools for the job: Jasmine, Karma, Protractor, Mocha, etc.
• Write tests in Protractor and Jasmine
• Run and debug tests with Karma and Protractor
• Create a maintainable test suite
• Employ best practices for unit testing in Angular

Format of the course

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

Note

• Angular goes by different names and versions, namely: Angular.js, AngularJS, AngularJS 1, Angular 1, Angular 2, etc. To customize the version used in this training, please contact us to arrange.

In this instructor-led, live training in Olympia (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to use AutoIt to automate window applications as they step through a series of hands-on live-lab exercises.

Behat is a Behavior Driven Development (BDD) test framework written in PHP. It facilitates communication among developers, testers, business stakeholders and clients during the software development process. Behat allows non-technical people to write clear descriptions of an application's intended behavior, then runs those "scenarios" as functional tests against the application.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to write and execute BDD style test cases using Behat and PHP.

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

• Run automated tests written in the human-readable, "Given, When, Then" Gherkin language
• Use Behat based test cases to improve collaboration between technical and non-technical teams
• Integrate Behat with Selenium, Mink, Goutte and other browser emulators to drive tests and generate reports
• Extend Behat functionality through its extension system
• Test numerous usage scenarios through terminal commands, REST APIs, and more.

Audience

• Test engineers
• Developers

Format of the course

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

This instructor-led, live training in Olympia (online or onsite) walks participants through real-life cases for Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and demonstrates hands-on how to implement Cucumber in various test scenarios.

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.

Cucumber.js is a native JavaScript implementation of Cucumber.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to write and execute BDD (Behavior Driven Devleopment) style test cases using Cucumber and Javascript.

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

• Run automated tests written in the human-readable language, Gherkin
• Use Cucumber based test cases to improve communication and collaboration between technical and non-technical teams
• Integrate Cucumber.js with other testing frameworks such as Protractor for testing Angular applications

Format of the course

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

In this instructor-led, live training in Olympia, participants will learn about GlobalSight's architecture and functionality as they install, configure and deploy a demonstration server.

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

• Understand the benefits of GlobalSight relative to other Translation Management Systems.
• Install GlobalSight server and related components.
• Set up GlobalSight to work behind a reverse proxy.
• Deploy GlobalSight to a production environment.
• Troubleshoot and optimize GlobalSight.
• Use GlobalSight's APIs to integrate it with third party applications, including JBPM, etc.

This instructor-led, live training in Olympia (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.

This instructor-led, live training in Olympia (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.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to set up and use OpenNMT to carry out translation of various sample data sets. The course starts with an overview of neural networks as they apply to machine translation. Participants will carry out live exercises throughout the course to demonstrate their understanding of the concepts learned and get feedback from the instructor.

By the end of this training, participants will have the knowledge and practice needed to implement a live OpenNMT solution.

Source and target language samples will be pre-arranged per the audience's requirements.

Format of the Course

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

This instructor-led, live training in Olympia (online or onsite) is aimed at software testers who wish to use Postman for API testing.

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

• Execute tests using automated requests and workflows.
• Define, develop, test, and observe an API using a version control system.
• Generate dynamic data in a request.
• Document and organize tests in collections for team revision.

In this instructor-led, live training in Olympia, 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 Olympia (online or onsite) is aimed at software testers who wish to test REST web services with Postman, Java, and Rest Assured APIs.

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

• Automate webservice API testing using Postman and REST Assured API.
• Generate reports for execution results.
• Design and implement automation frameworks with REST Assured API.

This instructor-led, live training in Olympia (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.

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.

In this instructor-led, live training in Olympia, participants will learn how to use SpecFlow to write acceptance tests that are understandable by technical as well as non-technical stakeholders.

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

• Bind business requirements to .NET code.
• Apply BDD techniques to build up living documentation for an application.
• Run SpecFlow from Visual Studio or the command line.
• Integrate SpecFlow into an existing continuous testing and build environment.
• Integrate SpecFlow with other testing frameworks such as MSTest, NUnit, xUnit and MbUnit.

In this instructor-led, live training in Olympia, 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 Olympia 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.

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.

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.