Slides depicting Python in Test Automation

1. Krishnan
Python in Test
Automation

2. About me
• Senior Developer in Test Automation
using Python
• Python Enthusiast
• Open Source python aspirant
• Editor of pyhelper.wordpress.com

3. What to Expect
Testing
Automation
Why Python
in Testing
Different Python
modules and
features
Embedded
Device
Automation
Selenium,
pywinauto,
GUI

4. Let’s Start
Python All the way

5. Important Topics
Testing
• Verifying and Validating an End product if it does what it
have to and does not do what it is not suppose to.
Automation
• Reducing Manual effort by making a machine do what
human does manually.
Test Automation
• Automation of Manual Testing

6. Enter Python
Easy to code
and Lot of
shortcuts
Easy to read
and maintain
Cross
Platform
Free and
open source
Exception
Handling

7. Why Python
• A one choice language rather than moving
from one tool-specific language to another
• Open source and huge community of
python
• Heavy standard library and 3rd party open
source modules

8. System-specific parameters and functions
Python Modules
os module
We got plenty of os methods which is important for os based checks
sys module
System-specific parameters and functions
• Sys.exit()
• Sys.argv
• Sys.path

9. More Modules

10. More Modules
Pexpect can be used for automating interactive console applications such as ssh, ftp,
passwd, telnet, etc.

12. Unit Testing

13. Regex
Regex python useful methods:
• match()
• compile()
• search()
• findall()

14. Debugging and Source Code checker

15. Demo

16. Krishnan
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