In the first part of using Selenium with Python tutorial, we’ve learned how to setup Python, Python’s commands through the Shell and how to implement Python’s plugin Eclipse IDE.
In this post, we’ll learn how to open a new project in Eclipse, install Selenium, how to start writing Selenium code in IDE and I’ll demonstrate a test case.
Installing Selenium on Python
The first step to start using Selenium with Python in your testing, is opening a new Python project in Eclipse. After you’ve opened Eclipse: File>New, if it’s your first PyDev Project, click “other”.
From there on, select ‘PyDev project’:
From there on, select ‘PyDev project’:
Click ‘Next’ and select the following values:
Click ‘Finish’ and confirm the following message:
Now our project is suppose to look as the following in Package Explorer of Eclipse:
In order to install Selenium’s library in Python project, we’ll open a command line and enter the following line:
C:\Python27\Scripts\pip.exe install selenium
After performing the necessary installation, we will notice the message “Selenium successfully installed”:
Now we need to assign the Selenium libraries we’ve downloaded, to the new project we’ve opened: Right click on the project in Package Explorer>Properties. In the new window that will open, continue to PyDev- PYTHONPATH, click on the “External libraries” tab and select the destination: C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages
Automatic function in Selenium and Python
Now we’re ready for our first piece of code: return once again to Eclipse and open a new module in Python, click File>New>PyDev Module:
*The Modules in Python also configure Templates- what we’ll especially focus on.
We’ll enter a Package and Module name (the Package contains the Module):
Click ‘Finish’. Now, at this stage we’ll select the ‘Module- Main’:
A new py document was created. Now we’ll begin writing our Selenium code in Python – a very simple test automation case: Start with entering Google search>Enter a value>Click ‘Search’.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
elem.send_keys("testproject.io")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
driver.close()
Automatic test in Selenium
The next step will be writing a program which illustrates a test, while applying well-known test automation tools (divisions, annotations, assets etc.).
And so, we’ll create a new module as done previously. Except for, now we’ll select ‘Template – Unittest’.
The new document is supposed to look as the following:
The template already consists of Unit Testing divisions we are already familiar with from Selenium’s other environments. We’ll use the same case, only now including tests:
Enter Google Search>Enter a value>Click ‘Search’ and make sure a specifically chosen word doesn’t show up in the search results:
import unittest
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
class Test(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
def tearDown(self):
self.driver.quit()
def testName(self):
driver = self.driver
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
assert "Google" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
elem.send_keys("testproject.io")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
assert "Kuku" not in driver.page_source
The test passed successfully (the value ‘KuKu’ didn’t show up).
Now let’s try and make the test fail, by changing the Assert’s value in the end of the test:
import unittest
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
class Test(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
def tearDown(self):
self.driver.quit()
def testName(self):
driver = self.driver
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
assert "Google" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
elem.send_keys("testproject.io")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
assert "Yoni" not in driver.page_source
This will bring us to the following result:
Happy testing using Selenium with Python!