pytest + selenium + allure: web automation example

Setup instructions (this assumes that you already have Python and pip installed)

• If you clone this repo, you can do pip install -r requirements.txt to install both pytest and selenium at once. Otherwise, you can install them one by one.

pytest

• Install pytest via pip or easy_install:

pip install -U pytest or easy_install -U pytest

• After installation, you can check the installed version by running:

pytest --version

selenium webdriver

• Install selenium via pip:

pip install -U selenium

chromedriver

Unix

• Download tar file from chromedriver
• Go to download location and extract the file from archive.
• Create local file with system user name and .env format, like username.env. Add your local path to this file CHROME_PATH=/Path/to/driver and save in settings directory.

Windows

• Download and extract zip file from chromedriver
• Get the executable file's location and add it to your Environment Variables. Instructions on setting the path can be found here
• Create local file with system user name and .env format, like username.env. Add your local path to this file CHROME_PATH=/Path/to/driver and save it in the settings directory.

How to run the tests

• To run all tests inside the test directory, simply run this command:

pytest

• To run a specific test, do

pytest <module name> <test name>
e.g. pytest test_w3_trysql.py::test_check_city

• To run a test with allure report, do

pytest <module name> --alluredir=<directory name>
e.g. pytest test_w3_trysql.py --alluredir=reportdir

• To see allure report, do

allure serve <directory name>
e.g. allure serve reportdir

• It is recommended to run the tests with verbosity by invoking -v during the test run.