Automated UI Testing with Selenium & PyTest

Easy & Effective Browser Test Automation

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Table of Contents

1. About
   • Built With
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation
   • Usage
3. Contact

About

This repo contains boilerplate code to get up-and-running with Automated UI Testing using Selenium & PyTest. It is intended to be used as a foundation for writing / adding your own tests.

Built With

• Selenium - a toolset for web browser automation that uses the best techniques available to remotely control browser instances and emulate a user’s interaction with the browser
• PyTest - a framework that makes building simple and scalable tests easy

Getting Started

Follow the steps below to get a local development instance up & running.

Prerequisites

• Python3

• pipenv

• Drivers

  The drivers for each browser (Chrome & Firefox) need to be downloaded, converted to executables, and places in the usr/local/bin directory

  • ChromeDriver
  • GeckoDriver

  chmod +x Downloads/geckodriver
  sudo mv Downloads/geckodriver ../../usr/local/bin/

Installation

git clone
cd project_dir
pipenv shell
pipenv install

Test Data

Navigate to Automated Practice's create an account page and manually create a new test account. Then add the email address, password, and user name to a .env in project root.

[email protected]
PASSWORD=yourpassword
USERNAME=Your Name

Test Configuration

Set the desired test configurations (brower and url) via the config.json file. Supported browsers are: "Headless Chrome", "Chrome", and "Firefox".

Running Tests

• Run All Tests

pipenv run python -m pytest

• Run Single Test Suite/File

pipenv run python -m pytest tests/test_home.py

• Run Single Test Case

pipenv run python -m pytest tests/test_home.py::test_LogoDisplayed

• Run Tests in Parallel

pipenv run python -m pytest -n 2

Contact

Tim Corley | @tcor215 | [email protected]