DevOps Testing

About this course

This course is part of the Microsoft Professional Program in DevOps.

In this course, you will learn about different test types, usage scenarios and the benefits of a Test-Driven development approach.

We will cover best practices around the usage of Unit, API (Integration), Performance, Functional, Acceptance, Automated (Coded) UI and Exploratory testing.

You will learn how to create and analyze these tests using various tools such as Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Visual Studio, Application Insights and third-party frameworks such as Selenium

What you'll learn

Understand various testing types and usage scenarios

Test-Driven development and it’s benefits

How to create and implement Unit tests and the elements of a good test

How to create basic API tests (or Integration tests)

Performance testing and how to create a performance test using Visual Studio and Visual Studio team services (VSTS)

How to analyze performance test results using Application Insights

Exploratory testing in the context of visual Studio and Microsoft Test Manager

Course Syllabus

Module 0: Start Here

Welcome to the course!
Course Overview
Pre-Course Survey

Module 1: Testing Overview

Objectives:
Introduction
Types of Tests
Value of Automated Testing in DevOps
Test-Driven Development and its Benefits
Assessments
Supplemental Learning

Module 2: Unit Tests

Introduction
What is Unit Testing?
Elements of Unit Test
Techniques for Advanced Unit Testing
Create good unit tests using Visual Studio
Hands-on Lab: Creating Unit Tests
Assessments
Supplemental Learning

Module 3: Integration Testing

Introduction
Testing Overview
Integration Test in a standard development environment
Assessments

Module 4: Web Performance Tests and Load Tests

Introduction
Performance Testing
Create Web Performance Test Scripts
Analyze Performance Test Results
Hands-on Lab 1: Application Performance Monitoring
Hands-on Lab 2: Load Testing
Assessments
Supplemental Learning

Module 5: Functional Testing – Acceptance, UI, and Exploratory Tests

Introduction
Introduction to Functional Testing
Manual Acceptance Testing
Automated UI testing
Exploratory testing with Microsoft Test Manager
Hands-On Lab: Create a coded UI test
Assessments
Supplemental Learning

Module 6: Final Exam

Final Exam
Post-Course Survey

Meet the instructors

Steven Borg

Co-Founder and Strategist Northwest Cadence

Steven Borg is the Co-Founder and Strategist of Northwest Cadence. Steven has been a Microsoft ALM MVP since product inception in 2005, speaks regularly at Software Development and Visual Studio conferences, and has authored Microsoft courseware and white papers on Team Foundation Server, regulatory compliance in software development, Scrum, and Lean. Steven has helped hundreds of organizations, both large and small, implement DevOps, adopt Visual Studio ALM tools, improve their software development process, reduce costs, increase quality and speed delivery dates. His expertise lies in bringing successful lean and agile adoption to companies currently using traditional project management techniques to manage software development projects.

Sachi Williamson

Cloud DevOps Consultant Northwest Cadence

Sachi Williamson is a Cloud DevOps Consultant at Northwest Cadence. Recently, she has recorded testing courses for Microsoft Virtual Academy with Steven Borg on Testing in Visual Studio 2015 and Test-Driven Development. Sachi has worked with companies to improve their agility through build and deployment pipelines including automated testing.

JPS Kohli

Founder CEO Skill-Up Technologies

JPS Kohli is the Founder CEO of Skill-Up Technologies, a skills-enablement, content development and technology consulting company based out of Seattle area. Prior to this, JPS spent 10 years at Microsoft where in his last role he was the Director for Online Training Products. He brings deep expertise in designing technical content, driving product readiness initiatives, and providing training services to help clients adopt new-age training solutions like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Video On-Demand training, and Flipped Learning. His key projects include launching Microsoft MOOC courses on edX.org, spearheading Microsoft Official Courses On-Demand, and launching India’s largest webstore for IT Products in 2001.