Learn how to create organization-wide systems of collaboration using Microsoft SharePoint, Teams, and Office 365 Groups. Instructor Gini von Courter dives into each of the programs, showing you how to create systems for asynchronous collaboration, such as file sharing, as well as communication-based collaboration that's targeted to specific members or groups inside an organization. Learn how to create a SharePoint team site and an Office 365 group, as well as how you can use your sites and groups together. Discover how to start using Teams as the collaboration hub that gives users one access point for their Teams, SharePoint sites, and Groups, including how to include cloud storage, create a tab for a page from a SharePoint site, display a SharePoint list in Teams, and mo

Agile is an exciting way to quickly deliver higher-quality products to your customer. New agile tools are emerging every day. This course helps you compare the strengths and capabilities of several different agile software tools, including Microsoft Excel, Atlassian JIRA, VersionOne, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), CA Agile Central (formerly Rally), and Agility Health. You'll see the advantages of simple tools like spreadsheets versus more complex solutions like complete product management packages. This course helps project managers, software developers, and other professionals determine which tool is the best fit for their team. Agile expert Doug Rose provides a fast-paced tour and an unvarnished look at what some of the tools get right and what some get wrong. Doug concludes each section with suggested strategies for selecting the right tool for your team—always remembering that no tool should ever overshadow the core values outlined in the agile manifesto.

Microsoft SharePoint Online is a significant component of Microsoft 365 teamwork solutions. In this course, Ed Liberman shows how to configure and manage SharePoint Online, including how to plan and configure site collections and apps. Ed also demonstrates how to customize sites within SharePoint using apps, manage user profiles, create relevant search results for users, and monitor and maintain the SharePoint Online service.

SharePoint 2019—the on-premises edition of the popular Microsoft platform—comes bundled with a number of powerful features for business collaboration and real-time documentation sharing. In this course, Gini von Courter helps you get up and running with SharePoint by covering the most essential of these features. Gini teaches SharePoint site owners and members how to navigate in SharePoint and use SharePoint sites, as well as how to create, edit, and save documents. She also shows how to create and use team sites, create and work with list apps, and integrate SharePoint with other Office applications, including Excel and Outlook.

Web services have been at the core of modern application architectures for many years. Regardless of what language or platform a developer is using, grasping how web services work and how to implement them are critical skills. In this course, instructor Kesha Williams steps through how to work with several popular technologies to build web services. Kesha begins by laying the groundwork for the course, explaining what web services are and the benefits they provide. She then offers a comparison of several popular web service technologies—REST, SOAP, and GraphQL—describing each technology's messaging formats in detail, along with examples of coding in several languages using a variety of server- and client-based implementations. Plus, get coding excerpts in Java, Python, and Swift.

As software companies continue to shift towards cloud computing, mobile apps, and microservice architectures, the ability to quickly and effectively test APIs has become a critical skill for software testers. In this course, instructor Dave Westerveld covers the basics of API testing, sharing how to work with several robust tools for testing APIs at scale in an organization. After providing a primer on web services and important API terminology, Dave shows how to use Postman for some basic API exploration. He then goes over some basic approaches and methodologies used in testing GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests; shows how to approach performance testing using SoapUI, a popular automated API testing tool; and more.

Trying to choose a tool to perform software testing? The market is a minefield, full of so many choices that it becomes difficult to zero in on the best tool for your unique test environment. This course surveys the most popular software testing tools available, including paid and open-source solutions such as Selenium, Postman, JMeter, and Kali Linux. Instructor Michael Smith—an experienced tester and software architect—breaks down the tools according to their suitability for each discipline, including API testing, security testing, load testing, and more. He also covers tools for lifecycle management and test planning, and dives into areas beyond the traditional software testing role, including unit and infrastructure testing. This review helps you narrow down your choices and understand the pros and cons of each platform, so you can make the right additions to your testing toolkit.

With industry trends like cloud computing and the Internet of Things, there is a growing need for testers that know and understand API testing tools. One powerful and mature tool used by companies around the world is SoapUI. This course is designed to help you get started with SoapUI and covers the basics of how to use it. Instructor Dave Westerveld explains how to set up your first project, create new tests, perform load and security testing, and make your tests more automated and efficient with scripting. Plus, learn how to integrate SoapUI with Docker-based build pipelines. The training is filled with examples featuring real-world, public APIs so you can see how SoapUI functions in real testing scenarios.