Starts June 16, 2019

• We conduct our Bootcamp online via Zoom
• All live sessions are recorded for you connivence and will be shared after each class
• We are using Slack for communication during online session and offline homework 
• Be prepared to spend 15-20 hours per week on the homework
• Code we show during each session will be committed and be available on the GitHub

This training is for manual testers who want:

• make a shift in their career and become Software Development Engineer in Test
• increase compensation
• feel more confident in current market

Why are we different?

• 2 instructors per group with current iOS Development experience
• We are not typical bootcamp. We teach through day-to-day work tasks using Agile approach. From day one you will start automating real use cases of a real startup-like iOS app. Thus you will gain real experience.
• One-on-one online onboarding prior to the bootcamp via Zoom -- we will help you to:
  • install and configure Xcode for the class
  • clone GitHub project into your Mac
  • build Application under test
  • go through class checklist 
• You will learn programming via hands-on task completion -- focusing you on programming topics that are necessary to complete your task
• You will work in pairs just like at a real-world job. Pair programming is proven to be very effective and used heavily industry wide.
• You will experience best software development practices during Bootcamp:
  • Each test case code will be committed to the common GitHub repository via PullRequest. We will teach everything about Git and GitHub from scratch at first week of the bootcamp
  • Upon successful code review by instructor and your teammates, your newly written test(s) code will be validated on Jenkins CI:
    • all tests would have to pass CI
    • SwiftLint must pass -- Swift style and conventions
  • Above practices would give you a real taste of day-to-day workflow of Software Engineer
• We will start every other session with methodical approach on how to solve most asked Interview Programming problems thus will prepare you for coding interview screening

What framework/library will we use for test automation?

Since we are going to focus on iOS, we will use XCTest and XCUITest which is part of native XCode SDK

Course outline:

• First week we help you to dive into Swift basics of Object Oriented programming, so later you may focus on tasks rather than programming basics
• Intro to Git and GitHub. Creating Pull Request and solving merge conflicts
• Every other online session will be started with Coding Algorithms
• Setup test project from scratch in XCode
• Integrate Accessibility Identifiers in app code for testability
• Improve test stability by cleaning up application data via AppDelegate
• As we progress, we will refactor tests with industry best practices to make tests more resilient using Page Objects pattern by using Protocols, Extensions, Delegates, ENums and Generics
• Intro to RestApi
• Make tests more stable with mock server using https://github.com/envoy/Ambassador (every company wants this skill nowadays)
• Automating App Analytics ( number one desired test coverage by company’s executives)
• Decorate tests with  advance features of XCUITest Library such as Async Wait, First Match API, Activities, Attachments and Screenshots
• Running tests in parallel in XCode

Detailed Course Syllabus

Week 1

Intro to Swift and XCode

• Variables
• Datatypes
• Operators
• Control blocks
• Collections
• Functions
• Optionals
• Classes and Objects
• Initializers

GitHub and GitFlow

• Go over basic Git commands in Terminal
• Intro to GitHub branching strategy
• Pull Requests and Code Review
• Resolving merge conflicts

Intro to XCUITest library 

• Create UiTesting target
• Automate first user scenario
• Refactor first test
• Meaningful assertions

Resolving GitHub Merge conflicts in-action and refactoring exiting tests

• Why does my Pull Request have two checks? UiTests and SwiftLint
•  Handling Location System Permission 
• Overview on how to resolve Pull Request conflicts (in-class examples on student PRs)
• How to work together on a single Git branch  (demo )
• Classes and Objects in Action  — refactoring existing tests

Week 2

Intro to scalable Architecture with Page Objects

• refactor first test with PageObjects
• access control and encapsulation
• polymorphism in action
• initializers in actions
• intro to XCode debugging
• Optionals in action

Scale tests with Date Object, Protocols and Protocols extensions 

• harden tests with future dates -- how to manipulate Date object
• improve app navigation with Protocols
• type alias and tuples

Week 3

Facebook auth with WebViews and clean up/injecting tests data

• automate Facebook auth by using WebViews
• clean tests data in appdelegate
• logout before every test
• using Activity in context for more readable test logs

Intro to backend Rest API and Mocking HTTP Traffic 

• testing RestAPI via Charles Proxy
• intro to Postman - Api development and testing environment
• intro to Ambassador -- a lightweight HTTP mock server
• refactor existing tests by pointing them to network mocks

Week 4

Completion Handlers  and Analytics automation 

• intro to completion handlers
• automating client analytics with Ambassador HTTP mock server

Decorate Tests with cool features of XCUITest Library  

• Activities, Attachments and Screenshots
• Parallel Testing -- need for speed
• Localization testing with snapshot test -- most wanted feature of every global company
• Running tests on RealDevice -- iPhone

Resume skills upon completion:

• Intermediate Swift knowledge
• Automate iOS App  regression with XCTest and XCUITest Libraries
• Scalable test architecture -- PageObjects on steroids
• Make test CI stable with mocking networking responses
• Rest API testing — HTTP, JSON

What test automation framework and programming language are we going to use?

• XCUITest – testing framework which is part of XCode
• Swift – widely used Object Oriented programming language from Apple (open source)
• CocoaPods – manages third party Libraries for iOS
• Ambassador - Swift framework designed for UI automated testing API mocking