python selenium multiple test cases

Question

I have the following code in python

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Sele         


        

Answer 1

Initialize the firefox driver in __init__:

class HomePageTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def __init__(self):
        self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
        self.driver.implicitly_wait(30)
        self.base_url = "https://somewebsite.com"
        self.verificationErrors = []

    ...

    def tearDown(self):
        self.driver.quit()

Answer 2

def suite():  

    suite = unittest.TestSuite()  
    suite.addTest(HomePageTest("test_home_page"))  
    suite.addTest(HomePageTest("test_whatever"))  
    return suite  

if __name__ == "__main__":

    unittest.TextTestRunner().run(suite()) 

Run many testcase with the same Firefox instance. Btw, i have a question hope someone could know it and answer to me. How could i execute the same testcase in different browsers?

Answer 3

Usually you want the browser to close between tests so that you start each test with a clean cache, localStorage, history database, etc. Closing the browser between tests does slow down the tests, but it saves in debug time because a test doesn't interact with the browser cache and history of a previous test.

Answer 4

use setUpClass and tearDownClass with @classmethod decorator.

Answer 5

use setUpClass and tearDownClass

class HomePageTest(unittest.TestCase):

    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        cls.driver = webdriver.Firefox()

    def setUp(self):
        self.base_url = "https://somewebsite.com"
        self.verificationErrors = []

    def tearDown(self):
        self.driver.get(self.base_url)

    @classmethod
    def tearDownClass(cls):
        cls.driver.quit()



if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()

Answer 6

I think WebDriver Plus solves your problem. Here it is. http://webdriverplus.org/en/latest/browsers.html You can reuse the same browser instance across all unit tests using this .