Learning Path: Application Development and Testing with Java

What’s great about the Cloud 9 online IDE is that your environment is running on a virtual machine in the cloud and is fully configured for you by default in under a minute! Everything is provisioned for you in Cloud 9 with proven, compatibility-tested versions of everything, across the board.

Packt’s Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.

In this course we'll discover how Cloud 9 works, how we can get access to an environment, and how to get a workspace setup for Java application development. By leveraging the Cloud 9 online development environment we're on the cutting edge of application development and deployment.

Test automation, a formalized testing process, can automate repetitive but necessary tasks that would be difficult to do manually. The next video is a practical step-by-step guide to developing UI test automation frameworks from scratch. We’ll explore Web Driver, Appium (for mobile applications), and Cucumber-JVM.

By the end of this Learning Path, you will have a vision of what a framework is, what it looks like, and what items should be covered at the beginning of test automation development.

About the Authors:

For this course, we have combined the best works of these extremely esteemed authors:

Brett Hooper is a well-seasoned software engineer, entrepreneur, teacher, and all-around techno-surfer. His decades of experience have taken him from years of IT consulting for Fortune 100 behemoths, to a number of entrepreneurial start-up efforts, to the U.S. Dept of Defense in defining their way forward in mobile and web-related technologies. Brett’s excitement in learning, implementing, and teaching new, interesting development frameworks, stacks, and services is never waning and keeps him heads-down more than not.

Mykola Kolisnyk has been involved with test automation since 2004, including creating test automation solutions from scratch, leading a test automation team, and working as a consultant for test automation processes. During his career he has worked with different test automation tools such as Mercury WinRunner, MicroFocus SilkTest, SmartBear TestComplete, Selenium-RC, WebDriver, Appium, SoapUI, BDD frameworks, and many other different engines and solutions.