Your Python Selenium tests should be written in a manner to conform to pytest standards
The initial code you were given was a sample piece of the code showing you the Selenium capabilities. But in order to use Selenium in a testing environment, you will need to structure your code as follows
Each file containing the tests should follow one of the these formats
test_<file_name>.py
<file_name>_test.py
The file should comprise of tests. Tests follow the standard as defined by pytest, see this link https://docs.pytest.org/en/reorganize-docs/new-docs/user/assert_statements.html
A test method should begin test_<method_name>()
We originally supplied you with the following piece of code
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.alert import Alert
driver = webdriver.Chrome('c:\\pf\\bin\\chromedriver.exe')
# Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
#driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('file://C:/work/git/nodejs-sky/selenium-setup/simple_page.html')
input_field = driver.find_element_by_id("message")
input_field.send_keys("help me!")
submitBtn = driver.find_element_by_id("submit-button")
time.sleep(2) # Let the user actually see something!
submitBtn.click()
time.sleep(3)
alert = Alert(driver)
alert.accept()
time.sleep(3)
driver.get('http://www.google.com/')
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
search_box = driver.find_element_by_name('q')
search_box.send_keys('ChromeDriver')
search_box.submit()
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
driver.quit()
Let’s clean it up
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.alert import Alert
driver = object
def setup():
global driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome('c:\\pf\\bin\\chromedriver.exe')
# Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
#driver = webdriver.Chrome()
def test_some_functionality():
setup()
driver.get('file://C:/work/git/nodejs-sky/selenium-setup/simple_page.html')
input_field = driver.find_element_by_id("message")
input_field.send_keys("help me!")
submitBtn = driver.find_element_by_id("submit-button")
time.sleep(2) # Let the user actually see something!
submitBtn.click()
time.sleep(3)
alert = Alert(driver)
alert.accept()
time.sleep(3)
driver.get('http://www.google.com/')
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
search_box = driver.find_element_by_name('q')
search_box.send_keys('ChromeDriver')
search_box.submit()
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
driver.quit()
assert True
Notice we put any intialisation code in something called setup(). This is so we can reuse this code across multiple tests.
To run the above code use the following command
pytest <file_name>.py
We then place the rest of the code in a method called test_some)functionality(). we could have split this up further into two separate tests as shown here
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.alert import Alert
driver = object
def setup():
global driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome('c:\\pf\\bin\\chromedriver.exe')
# Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
#driver = webdriver.Chrome()
def after_tests():
driver.quit()
def test_fields_on_form():
driver.get('file://C:/work/git/nodejs-sky/selenium-setup/simple_page.html')
input_field = driver.find_element_by_id("message")
input_field.send_keys("help me!")
submitBtn = driver.find_element_by_id("submit-button")
time.sleep(2) # Let the user actually see something!
submitBtn.click()
time.sleep(3)
alert = Alert(driver)
alert.accept()
time.sleep(3)
assert True
def test_navigation():
driver.get('http://www.google.com/')
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
search_box = driver.find_element_by_name('q')
search_box.send_keys('ChromeDriver')
search_box.submit()
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
driver.quit()
assert True
setup()
Notice how we have cleaned up the code. The function call setup() at line 47. because the code above is all function definitions, they don’t get called until setup() has been called because the code is executed sequentially.
If we put this code in a file called test_demo_selenium.py. It could be executed by simply typing pytest