Software Engineering Training Courses

Software Engineering Training Courses

Local, instructor-led live Software Engineering training courses demonstrate through interactive discussion and hands-on practice the fundamentals of Software Engineering.

Software Engineering training is available as "onsite live training" or "remote live training". Onsite live Software Engineering training can be carried out locally on customer premises in South Africa or in NobleProg corporate training centers in South Africa. Remote live training is carried out by way of an interactive, remote desktop.

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Software Engineering Course Outlines

Title
Duration
Overview
Title
Duration
Overview

JMeter Fundamentals

7 hours
Overview
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.

Testing Angular Applications

14 hours
Overview
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.

Introduction to Model Based Testing

14 hours
Overview
In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa, participants will learn the theory and practice of model-based testing as they implement the indicated tools and techniques in a demo Model-Based Testing (MBT) test environment.

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

- Generate test cases by applying modeling strategies and techniques.
- Assess and evaluate free and commercial tools for implementing MBT.
- Manage test models for different types of software applications, systems and environments.
- Evaluate, propose and implement an MBT strategy within an organization.
- Understand and explain the benefits and challenges of MBT.

GlobalSight: Automate the Localization Process

7 hours
Overview
In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa, 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.

Unit Testing with PHPUnit

14 hours
Overview
This instructor-led, live training in South Africa teaches participants how to write testable code in the form of testing units to facilitate the diagnosis, isolation, and resolution of bugs. The training walks participants through the creation of a work-ready, testing environment using the PHPUnit testing framework.

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

- Distinguish between good and bad testing units.
- Read and interpret test results.
- Proactively manage and diagnose their code base to reduce bugs.
- Ensure that their code base is fit for continuous integration and deployment.

Cucumber: Implementing BDD with Java

7 hours
Overview
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.

Audience

- Testers and Developers

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.

JBehave: BDD with Java

7 hours
Overview
JBehave is an open-source, Java-based 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 the JBehave 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 JBehave, as well as the necessary practice and toolset to write test cases for real-world software test scenarios.

Audience

- Testers and Developers

Format of the course

- Heavy emphasis on hands-on practice. Most of the concepts are learned through samples, exercises and hands-on development.

Property Based Testing with ScalaCheck

21 hours
Overview
ScalaCheck is a library for carrying out automated, property-based testing for Scala or Java programs. Inspired by the Haskell library QuickCheck, it uses properties to describe the expected behavior of an application, generating random input data at first, then testing this data across different areas of the application and reporting the result.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the benefits of and concepts behind property-based testing as they practice writing properties that lead to the automatic generation of test cases.

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

- Write general properties that replace and/or compliment hand-written unit test cases
- Write tests at the higher level of property specifications
- Execute ScalaCheck as a standalone executabl, using the built-in command line test runner
- Integrate ScalaCheck with test frameworks such as ScalaTest, specs2 and LambdaTest

Audience

- Test engineers
- Developers

Format of the course

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

WinRunner

21 hours
Overview
HP WinRunner is an enterprise-class automated functional testing tool for recording and replaying UI interactions as test scripts.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn to create and run sophisticated automated tests on an application.

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

- Create adaptable and reusable test scripts that replace or compliment manual testing
- Automate the testing process, from test development to execution
- Prepare and execute an overnight test run
- Use TSL (Test Script Language) to control WinRunner
- Understand WinRunner's advanced features such as the synchronization concept, verification of tests and the WinRunner workflow

Audience

- Manual testers
- Automation test engineers
- QA engineers

Format of the course

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

TestComplete

21 hours
Overview
In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa, 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.

Concordion

21 hours
Overview
Concordion is a Java-based, open-source "specification by example" framework that brings together testing and specifications. It integrates with JUnit and can be used with popular Java-based IDEs such as Netbeans, Eclipse, and IntelliJ IDEA.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the basics of Concordion, its environment setup, key commands, best practices and more as they walk step-by-step through the creation of a sample Concordion application.

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

- Understand the functionality of Concordian
- Install and deploy Concordian
- Write Concordion specifications in Markdown and HTML

Format of the course

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

Model Based Development for Embedded Systems

21 hours
Overview
Model Based Development (MBD) is a software development methodology that enables faster, more cost-effective development of dynamic systems such as control systems, signal processing and communication systems. It relies on graphic modeling rather than the traditional text based programming.

In this instructor-led, live training participants will learn how to apply MBD methodologies to reduce development costs and accelerate the time to market of their embedded software products.

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

- Select and utilize the right tools for implementing MBD.
- Use MBD to carry out rapid development in the early stages of their embedded software project.
- Shorten the release of their embedded software into the market.

Format of the course

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

Unit Testing with C#

14 hours
Overview
Unit testing is a testing approach that tests individual units of source code by modifying its properties or triggering an event to confirm whether the outcome is as expected.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to write and execute unit tests against a sample .Net application using C# and Visual Studio.

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

- Use testing frameworks such as NUnit and xUnit.net to create and manage unit test code
- Define and implement a broader test driven development approach to testing
- Adapt the testing framework to extend the test coverage for an application

Audience

- Software test engineers
- Developers

Format of the course

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

Property Based Testing with F#

7 hours
Overview
Property Based Testing is an automated testing technique that allows you to zero in on the expected behavior of a system by describing its properties, then using randomly generated test data to execute tests.

"Describe the arguments, describe the result, have the computer try to prove your code wrong!"

Some of the topics covered in this instructor-led, live training include:

- How to write and run tests with F#
- The FsCheck Property Based Testing framework
- Using Diamond Kata to implement TDD
- Sharpening your code design skills

Audience

- Automation test engineers
- Developers

Format of the course

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

Facebook NMT: Setting up a Neural Machine Translation System

7 hours
Overview
In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use Facebook NMT (Fairseq) to carry out translation of sample content.

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

Format of the course

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

Note

- If you wish to use specific source and target language content, please contact us to arrange.

Software Usability Testing: Live Workshop

14 hours
Overview
Usability testing is a technique for evaluating a software product or system by testing it on users to directly observe how they interact with it.

The workshop begins with an introduction to usability testing, what it is and how it is used by companies to promote good software design and development. The language is non-technical and the learning is practical and hands-on, with a focus on end-users, their requirements, way of thinking and way of interacting with the system.

By the end of this training, participants will know how to:

- Determine the most suitable usability test approach based on a product's unique characteristics and its stage in the development cycle.
- Develop a usability test plan.
- Recruit, evaluate and manage testers.
- Write, assign, and moderate usability test tasks that produce the biggest impact for end-users and the business.
- Collect, analyze and report test results.
- Communicate and collaborate effectively with business managers, developers and QA teams on the significance and actions needed for delivering an end product that not only works but works well and provides the intended user experience.

Audience

- Product owners and managers
- QA managers
- Manual testers
- Internal users of a software product or system

Format of the course

- A interactive, instructor-led workshop with lots of activities and hands-on practice.

Notes

- The case studies and software samples used in this workshop are pre-arranged by the instructor. To customize the materials, please contact us in advance.

BDD for Non-Programmers: Live Workshop

14 hours
Overview
This instructor-led, live workshop in South Africa begins with an introduction to BDD, what it is and how it is used by companies to promote good software design, development and testing. We do this from a non-engineering point-of-view, with an eye on the end-users, their requirements, language, and way of thinking. We also address the communication challenges that business stakeholders are likely to encounter as they work closer with their technical-minded peers.

By the end of this training, participants will know how to:

- Write succinct user stories that capture the usage patterns of real users of the software.
- Translate their user stories into the behavioral language of BDD (Given, When, Then.)
- Derive test cases from these stories, for use by engineers to implement and test.
- Understand the relationship between product requirements, acceptance criteria, and test cases.
- Demystify the technical jargon that impedes communication and understanding.
- Install and use great tools for writing BDD feature files.
- Understand and appreciate what happens once the work is handed to engineers.
- Play a more active role in the iterative development cycle.

Protractor: End-to-End Testing for Angular Web Applications

14 hours
Overview
In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa, 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.

Introduction to Java for Test Automation

28 hours
Overview
This instructor-led, live training in South Africa is designed for anyone interested in learning Java for the purpose of test automation. It is a streamlined, intensive course with plenty of hands-on exercises to get participants ramped up quickly with the essential programming skills needed to apply to software automation testing. The focus is on the Java fundamentals which can be directly and immediately applied to test automation.

This course does not cover in depth test automation frameworks such as Selenium. It also bypasses the conventional "Hello World" approach to learning Java, as this is not a course on application development. This course is squarely aimed at getting participants up and running quickly with test automation. If you are already versed in Java and wish to get straight into testing with Selenium, please check out: Introduction to Selenium (https://www.nobleprog.com/introduction-selenium-training).

Selenium with Ruby for Test Automation

14 hours
Overview
In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa participants combine the power of Ruby with Selenium to automate the testing of a sample web application. By learning to create and combine Ruby test scripts with Selenium web automation in a live lab environment, participants will gain the knowledge and practice needed to automate the testing of their own real life web applications and websites.

Selenium with Python for Test Automation

14 hours
Overview
In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa 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.

Tosca: Model-Based Testing for Complex Systems

35 hours
Overview
In this instructor-led, live training training in South Africa 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 principals 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.

OpenNMT: Setting Up a Neural Machine Translation System

7 hours
Overview
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

Unit Testing with Python

21 hours
Overview
In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa, participants will learn how to use PyTest to write short, maintainable tests that are elegant, expressive and readable.

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

- Write readable and maintainable tests without the need for boilerplate code.
- Use the fixture model to write small tests.
- Scale tests up to complex functional testing for applications, packages, and libraries.
- Understand and apply PyTest features such as hooks, assert rewriting and plug-ins.
- Reduce test times by running tests in parallel and across multiple processors.
- Run tests in a continuous integration environment, together with other utilities such as tox, mock, coverage, unittest, doctest and Selenium.
- Use Python to test non-Python applications.

Unit Testing with F#

7 hours
Overview
This course introduces the tools and techniques needed to write F# based unit tests. A special emphasis is placed on test driven development (TDD). Functional TDD is a testing approach that uses functional programming to unit test an application before developing it. Functional programming (as opposed to imperative, state-transition-style programming) in a language such as F# lends itself well to TDD because smaller, well-targeted tests can be written in isolation.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use F# to write unit tests that are direct and easy to understand.

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

- Build a complete system out of small, isolated functions
- Express test cases as properties instead of examples
- Write test code without the need for mocks
- Reduce the need to control and check for side effects
- Use libraries such as NaturalSpec, FsCheck, FsTest, FsUnit and Unquote to facilitate test cases creation
- Use F# to overcome some of the problems associated with mainstream Test-driven Development (TDD)

Audience

- Test engineers

Format of the course

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

SoapUI for API Testing

21 hours
Overview
In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa, 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.

Behat: Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with PHP

14 hours
Overview
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

Technical Documentation for Non-Writers

14 hours
Overview
This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (onsite or remote) is aimed at engineers who wish to write technical documentation but lack the experience of a trained technical writer.

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

- Produce technical content that's accurate and user-friendly.
- Transform complex product information into readable user-focused content.
- Apply tools and techniques to maximize writing efficiency.
- Understand and oversee the different phases of a writing project, including writing, revision, translation and publication.
- Complete writing projects on time and per requirements.

Testing React Apps with Jest

14 hours
Overview
This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (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.

Kubernetes Design Patterns

21 hours
Overview
The evolution of microservices and containers in recent years has significantly changed how we design, develop, deploy and run software. Modern applications must be optimized for scalability, elasticity, failure, and change. Driven by these new demands, modern architectures require a different set of patterns and practices. In this training, we examine ways to identify, understand and adjust to these new requirements.

Audience
This training is intended for people who are somewhat familiar with container technology and with Kubernetes concepts but are perhaps lacking the real world experience. It is based on use cases, and lessons learnt from real life projects with the intention of making people inspired to create and manage even better cloud native applications.

- Developers
- Operations
- DevOps
- QA Engineers
- IT Project Managers

Format of the Course

- Interactive lecture and discussion
- Lots of exercises and practice
- Handson implementation in a live-lab environment

Course Customization Options

- To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

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