Scripting for Testers [Released: 4/23/2025]

Scripting can expand your abilities as a tester and help you keep up with the pace of agile. It allows you to more quickly and efficiently find software issues and automate manual tasks such as reporting and test site preparation. This course examines a few ways to use scripts to solve common challenges faced in the fast-paced world of software testing. Follow along and learn how to navigate and test APIs, generate reports, explore products with web automation tools, generate dummy data for testing, and more.

The lessons rely on simple Python-based scripts as well as popular testing tools such as Playwright, and reporting tools like Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel. Instructor Dave Westerveld provides concrete examples and ideas to increase your productivity, eliminate boring tasks, build new insights into products, and standardize and simplify your team's work.

This course is integrated with GitHub Codespaces, an instant cloud developer environment that offers all the functionality of your favorite IDE without the need for any local machine setup. With GitHub Codespaces, you can get hands-on practice from any machine, at any time—all while using a tool that you’ll likely encounter in the workplace. Check out “Using GitHub Codespaces" with this course to learn how to get started.

Learning objectives

• Drive API calls with Playwright scripting.
• Leverage API authentication.
• Parse API data.
• Work with images.