Pro Python for DevOps and QA
2 days
Overview
This 2-day course will help raise the bar from “hacking” with python, to professional-level code you and your peers can maintain.
Prerequisites
Working knowledge of python (2 or 3)
Audience
DevOps and QA people with basic knowledge of python. Software developers who want to polish their knowledge of system-level programming, and Automated testing using Python.
Course Content
Setting up Python
- Packaging and Isolation using pip & virtualenv
- Editing python, Visual Studio Code, pylint
- Debugging using VSC
- Coding style and PEP-8
- Documenting python code using pydoc and doctest
Writing Tests
- Automating tests and the test pyramid
- Writing our first test
- The Setup / Execute / Verify / Teardown pattern
- Measuring tests coverage
Using pytest
- pytest vs unittest
- Test discovery & Structuring unit tests
- Selective running of test using marks
- Testing exceptions
- Python project structure
Isolating system
dependencies
- Dependency injection
- Mocking
- Stubbing
- Patching
ATDD/BDD
- Writing acceptance criteria
- Definition of Done
- Code Reviews
- Gherkin
- Automating gherkin test specs using a BDD framework – pytest.BDD
- Cross-framework tests coverage
TDD - Test-Driven
Development
- The Fail-Implement-Pass-Refactor Cycle
- Writing clean tests using pytest Fixtures
