• Explain the importance of testing.
• Describe test-driven development (TDD) and explain its benefits for DevOps.
• Develop unit tests with test assertions and test fixtures and then run the tests.
• Improve unit testing through advanced TDD methods including coverage reports, factories, fakes, and mock objects.
• Summarize the steps in a typical BDD workflow.
• Describe popular BDD tools and their benefits.
• Conduct BDD tests using Honcho and Behave.

Module 1: Introduction to Testing

• The Importance of Testing
• Why Developers Don’t Test
• Testing Levels and Release Cycle
• TDD and BDD
• Testing Case Study

Module 2: Introduction to Test Driven Development

• Benefits of Test Driven Development
• Tools for TDD
• Running Tests with Nose
• Running Tests with Nose Demo
• Hands-on Lab: Running Tests with Nose
• Anatomy of a Test Case
• Writing Test Assertions
• Writing Test Assertions Demo
• Hands-on Lab: Writing Test Assertions
• Test Fixtures
• Creating Initial State Using Test Fixtures Demo
• Hands-on Lab: Creating an Initial State Using Test Fixtures

Module 3: Advanced Methods for Test Driven Development

• Test Coverage
• Running Test Cases with Coverage Demo
• Hands-on Lab: Running Test Cases with Coverage
• Factories and Fakes
• Factories and Fakes Demo
• Hands-on Lab: Using Factories and Fakes
• Mocking
• Mocking with Patch
• Mocking with Mock Objects
• Mocking with Mock Objects Demo
• Hands-on Lab: Mocking Objects
• Practicing Test Driven Development
• Practicing Test Driven Development Demo
• Hands-On Lab: Practicing Test Driven Development

Module 4: Introduction to Behavior-Driven Development

• What is Behavior Driven Development
• Benefits of BDD
• BDD Workflow and Gherkin Syntax
• Example of BDD
• Tools for Behavior Driven Development
• Overview of Behave
• Environment Setup
• Environment Setup Demo
• Hands-on Lab: Setting up an Environment
• Writing Feature Files
• Writing Feature Files Demo
• Hands-on Lab: Writing Feature Files
• Selenium
• UI Considerations
• Writing Step Files
• Writing Step Files Demo
• Hands-on Lab: Writing Step Files
• Loading Test Data with Behave
• Loading Test Data with Behave Demo
• Hands-on Lab: Loading Test Data with Behave

Module 5: Running Behave for Behavior Driven Development

• Generating Steps with Behave
• Generating Steps with Behave Demo
• Hands-on Lab: Generating Steps with Behave
• Implementing Your First Steps
• Implementing Your First Steps Demo
• Hands-on Lab: Implementing Your First Steps
• Working with the Context
• Working with the Context Demo
• Hands-on Lab: Working with the Context
• Using Variable Substitution
• Using Variable Substitution Demo
• Hands-on Lab: Using Variable Substitution
• BDD in Practice

Module 6: Final Project