C# for Automation Test Engineers

• An interest in C# programming and automation testing

Audience

• Beginner testers who wish to learn C# for automation testing
• Professional testers with experience in other programming language such as Java or Javascript who wish to transfer their testing skill set to C#

This instructor-led, live training is designed for anyone interested in learning C# for the purpose of automation testing. 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 in software automation testing. The focus is on the C# fundamentals which can be directly and immediately applied to test automation.

This course does not cover in depth test automation frameworks such as Selenium. If you are already versed in C# and wish to get straight into testing with Selenium, please check out: Selenium WebDriver in C#: Introduction to web testing automation in C#.

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, heavy hands-on practice, occasional tests to gauge understanding

Introduction

Project Setup

.Net and VisualStudio Setup

C# Data Types and Operators

• Variable types
• Operators
• Conditional statements
• Loop Statements
• Lists
• Switches
• Arrays

Object-Oriented Programming

• Class creation
• Constructors
• Constructor overloading
• Namespaces and using statements

Methods

• Method creation
• Method reuse
• Method overloading
• Passing arguments

Containers

• Lists
• Vectors
• Dictionary
• Generics

Extending Classes

• Construction of classes
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Abstract classes
• Interface classes

Working with Strings

• Manipulation
• Formatting
• Tokenizers

Unit Tests

• Web testing
• Creation
• Assertions

Debugging

• The Watch Window
• Debug Commands
• Debugging Functions

Exception Handling

• Catch Block
• Finally Block
• Throw Keyword
• Try Catch Block

Working with JSON

• Structure
• JSON libraries
• Creating JSON strings
• Deserializing

Towards an Automation Framework

Closing Remarks