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Test Automation With Perl Scripting ToC

The document outlines the course contents for a Perl Scripting and Test Automation course. The course covers basic Perl concepts like data types, operators, arrays, hashes, control structures and regular expressions. It also covers more advanced topics like modules, packages and interacting with the file system and command line. The test automation section focuses on using common Perl modules for testing like Test::Simple, Test::More, WWW::Mechanize and DBI and includes sample scripts using each module.

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Test Automation With Perl Scripting ToC

The document outlines the course contents for a Perl Scripting and Test Automation course. The course covers basic Perl concepts like data types, operators, arrays, hashes, control structures and regular expressions. It also covers more advanced topics like modules, packages and interacting with the file system and command line. The test automation section focuses on using common Perl modules for testing like Test::Simple, Test::More, WWW::Mechanize and DBI and includes sample scripts using each module.

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Perl Scripting & using Perl in Test Automation


Course Contents Basic Perl: 1. Introduction to Perl a. What is Perl b. Perl History c. Writing first Perl script d. Executing Perl scripts 2. Basic Data Types a. Scalar Data types b. Variable Interpolation c. Escape sequences d. Numeric Function Interpolation e. String Functions 3. Operators in Perl a. Arthematic Operators b. Comparison Operators c. Logical Operators d. Auto Increment / Decrement Operators i. With Numerics & Strings ii. With Strings e. String Repetion Operators 4. Lists and Array Variables a. Introduction to Lists b. Introduction to Arrays c. Fast creation and access d. Operations on Lists and Arrays e. Built-in Array functions 5. Control Structures a. Conditional Statements b. Single line conditions statements c. Relational & Logical Operators d. Control Loops i. For loop in perl ii. Foreach loop in perl iii. do / redo statements iv. next, last, continue keywords 6. Hashes in Perl (Associative Arrays) a. What are Associative Arrays? b. Difference between Arrays and Associative Arrays. c. Creating Associative Arrays and access elements d. Built-in Hash functions 7.Command Line Arguments Processing a. How to process CLA's b. ARGV array c. Shift Operator

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9. File System Interaction a. What is a file? b. Various modes of file operations. c. File Handles and File Handling d. File and Arrays e. File handle switches viz e, -f, -d, -b, -z, -s etc f. Error Handling g. Directory Processing 10. Using Subroutines a. What are subroutines in Perl b. Defining and invoking Subroutines c. Returning Values from a subroutines d. Variable scoping e. Passing arguments to a subroutine f. Nested subroutine calls g. System defined subroutines i.g. BEGIN, END, AUTOLOAD 11. Regular Expressions (aka RegEx) a. Introduction to Pattern matching b. Wildcards and Character Classes c. Recovering previous matches d. Greedy and Mimimal Searching e. Substitution f. Translations Advance Perl: 12.Perl Modules and Packages a. What are packages and Modules b. Using Modules in perl scripts c. Introduction to basic CPAN modules DBI module Excel Module FTP Module Perl in Test Automation: In the below modules we will cover the below items: a. Important functions available in the module b. Sample scripts by using the module 13. Test::Simple Module 14. Test::More Module 15. Test::Harness Module 16. WWW::Mechanize Module 17. HTTP::Recorder Module 18. Win32::IEAutomation Module 19. DBI Module 20. Net::FTP Module 21. Spreadsheet Module

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