Introduction to Software

• What is software?
• What is software testing?
• Why do we need testing?
• QA vs Testing
• Manual vs Automation
• Tester responsibilities
• Real-world testing example

Practical: Students test a simple login page manually.
Assignment: Write 10 login test cases
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SDLC & STLC Topics

• SDLC
• Software development lifecycle
• STLC
• Requirements
• Development
• Testing
• Release
• Production
• Tester involvement

Practical: Map testing activities to a real project.

Testing Types Topics

• Functional testing
• Regression testing
• Smoke testing
• Sanity testing
• Integration testing
• System testing
• End-to-end testing
• UI testing
• API testing

Practical: Identify which testing type applies to different scenarios.

Test Cases & Test Scenarios

• Test scenario
• Test case
• Test data
• Expected vs actual result
• Positive testing
• Negative testing
• Boundary testing
• AI Driven Requirement Parsing & Synthetic Test Data Generation

Practical

Create test cases for:

• Login
• Registration
• Search
• Shopping cart

Defects & Agile

• What is a bug?
• Bug lifecycle
• Severity
• Priority
• Bug report
• Agile/Scrum
• Sprint
• Daily standup
• QA in Agile

Assignment: Create and report 5 defects.

JavaScript

• Variables
• let/const
• Data types
• Operators
• Strings
• Template literals

Conditions & Loops

• if/else
• switch
• for
• for…of
• while
• Practical automation examples

Functions, Arrays & Objects

• Functions
• Parameters
• Return
• Arrays
• Objects
• Array methods

Async JavaScript

• Synchronous vs asynchronous
• Promises
• async/await
• Why Playwright uses async/await

JavaScript Automation Lab

Students solve automation-oriented coding problems:

• Login validation
• Array filtering
• Object manipulation
• String manipulation
• Data-driven examples
• GenAI as an Asynchronous & Logic Code

Mini assessment

Node.js + Playwright Setup

• Node.js
• npm
• VS Code
• Playwright installation
• Project creation
• Folder structure
• playwright.config.ts
• First test

Browser, Context & Page
Visual Explanation Browser → BrowserContext → Page

• Browser
• Context
• Page
• Isolation
• Multiple contexts
• Multiple pages

Locators

• getByRole
• getByLabel
• getByText
• getByPlaceholder
• getByTestId
• Locator strategy

CSS, XPath & Dynamic Elements

• CSS
• XPath
• Chaining
• filter()
• has()
• hasText()
• nth()
• Dynamic IDs

Actions & Assertions

• click
• fill
• check
• selectOption
• hover
• keyboard
• upload/download
• expect
• soft assertions

Mini project: Automate a registration flow.

Auto-Waiting & Synchronization

• Auto-waiting
• Explicit waits
• waitForURL
• waitForResponse
• Timeouts
• Why waitForTimeout() is dangerous

Real-World UI Controls

• Dropdowns
• Checkboxes
• Radio buttons
• Date pickers
• Tables

Frames, Dialogs & Popups

• iframe
• Dialog
• New page
• Multiple tabs
• Browser events

Playwright Test Runner

• test()
• expect()
• describe()
• Hooks
• beforeEach
• afterEach
• Tags
• Retries
• CLI

Configuration & Environments

• baseURL
• Projects
• Browser configuration
• Environment variables
• Timeouts
• Retries
• Dev vs QA vs staging

Mini assessment

Page Object Model Students learn to convert:

Raw test → Maintainable framework

• Page classes
• Locators
• Methods
• Reusable components

Fixtures

• Built-in fixtures
• Custom fixtures
• Test scope
• Setup/teardown
• Page object fixtures

Worker Fixtures & Parallel Execution

• Workers
• Parallel execution
• workerIndex
• parallelIndex
• Data collisions
• Worker-scoped data

Authentication

• Login once
• storageState
• Authentication setup
• .auth
• Shared vs individual accounts

Test Data & Utilities

• Test data
• JSON
• Data factories
• Utilities
• Constants
• Environment secrets
• Deterministic data

API Testing

• What is API testing?
• REST
• GET
• POST
• PUT
• PATCH
• DELETE
• Headers
• Payloads
• Status codes
• Response validation

UI + API Testing

Students create data using API and validate it through UI.

Example
POST → Create user → UI → Verify user

Network Interception & Mocking

• route()
• fulfill()
• abort()
• Request/response
• API mocking
• Negative scenarios

Debugging

• Inspector
• Debug mode
• UI Mode
• Trace Viewer
• Screenshots
• Videos
• HTML reports

Flaky Tests

• What makes tests flaky?
• Bad waits
• Bad selectors
• Test dependency
• Shared data
• Environment issues
• Retry vs fixing the root cause

GenAI for Automated Log & Trace Analysis

Practical: Students debug deliberately broken tests

Git & GitHub

• Repository
• Clone
• Branch
• Commit
• Push
• Pull
• Pull request
• Merge
• Conflict resolution

GitHub Actions

Students create their first CI pipeline.
Pipeline: GitHub → Install Node → Install Playwright → Run tests → Generate report → Upload artifact

CI Reliability

• CI workers
• Retries
• Parallel execution
• Sharding
• Artifacts
• Secrets
• Environment variables

AI-Assisted Automation

• GitHub Copilot
• Generating tests
• Improving locators
• Debugging with AI
• Refactoring
• Reviewing AI-generated code
• Hallucination risks
• Why humans still need to review automation

Framework Architectur

Students design:
tests/
pages/
fixtures/
utils/
data/
api/
config/
reports/

By this you will learn: POM + Fixtures + API + Test Data + Config + Reporting

Capstone Development

Students implement:

• Login
• Core business flow
• CRUD
• API validation
• Authentication
• POM
• Fixtures
• Reporting

CI + Mock Interview

• GitHub Actions
• Cross-browser execution
• Trace/report artifacts
• Failure debugging
• Project explanation

Then conduct a technical mock interview

Modern Test Architecture Sharding
Final Assessment & Demo

Every student presents:

1. Project
2. Framework architecture
3. Test strategy
4. GitHub repository
5. CI pipeline
6. Test report
7. One debugging example

Then: Playwright interview questions + coding challenge + feedback