By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Define ‘API testing’ and establish the importance of such testing
• Explain the client-server architecture and the meaning of web service
• Categorise the web services into REST or SOAP
• Outline the process of sending requests in JSON format
• Compute the RESTful API testing with the Postman and cURL tool
• Label the CRUD operations with their corresponding HTTP methods
• Distinguish between Postman and cURL
• Recall how to write API test cases

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Define ‘login framework’
• Distinguish between login and loggers
• Explain the function of filters, handlers, loggers, layout and appenders in Log4j
• Describe how to configure JUL and Log4j frameworks in order to publish messages to a target
• Discuss the purpose of logging levels
• Summarise how to use Log4j in projects
• Identify the SLF4J binding implementations
• Recall the function of the Logback framework and its advantages over Log4j

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the process of Maven installation on Windows and Mac/Linux
• Outline different Maven functionalities
• Analyse the default behaviour of Maven
• Explain the role of dependency management in Maven as its core feature
• Solve dependency conflicts
• List steps required to deploy a Java application onto a server
• Discuss the use of the project object model (POM) in Maven
• Summarise the four sections of POM.xml
• Recall steps to customise the default behaviour of Maven

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Discuss the use of Selenium WebDriver to test web applications and automate web-related repetitive tasks
• Explain the working of the Selenium WebDriver interface to find web elements
• Describe the role of HTML in the creation of web page content
• Differentiate between static and dynamic web elements
• Compare different web element-finding strategies
• Recognise various ‘operators’ supported by the expression language XPath
• Order element locators based on the fast retrieval of web elements
• Outline the process of interacting with commonly used web elements using Eclipse
• Indicate important browser navigation methods using WebDriver

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Select the correct name classes, methods, constants and interface
• Identify the different data types in Java
• Apply conditional statements to iterate through a loop
• Indicate the correct code for arrays and retrieve data from them
• Recognize a variable by its scope
• Analyze the break and continue statements
• Explain the OOPs principle
• State the benefits of encapsulation of codes in Java
• Distinguish between exceptions and errors

Having completed this course, you will be able to:

• Indicate the process of installing various Linux distributions in your machine
• List most commonly used Linux commands and their functions
• Define process in the context of Linux
• Outline the process to write short programs in Linux using the command line
• Explain various steps involved in creating and updating a file in Linux
• Order the sequence of steps used to download and install software packages in Linux
• Discuss the procedure to control or modify remote servers from your local machine
• Describe the use of shell script to automate different tasks
• Compare for loop and while loop
• Summarize different file management techniques in Linux

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Apply TestNG in testing a Java application
• List and explain the functionalities of the TestNG framework
• Recall the basic structure of test case writing and execution in the TestNG framework
• Identify the different levels of annotations of TestNG and their applications
• Apply test cases using a data provider
• Create groups in TestNG and how to include or execute them during execution via XML file
• Describe how a test case can be managed using the TestNG XML file
• State why parallel execution is necessary in test case writing

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Outline steps to download and install Apache POI on your system
• Analyse various used cases of Apache POI for MS Excel
• Arrange the steps required for the manual creation of an Excel file
• Describe the process of adding data to an Excel file
• Discuss different cell formatting options in MS Excel
• Solve syntax errors in your code on Eclipse
• Indicate the procedure to apply a formula to a cell, merge cells and add a hyperlink to a cell
• Explain the steps for reading and updating Excel files using Eclipse