Easy user-interface testing in Python!
In this blog post, I will explain how to build a small Web UI testing solution using Python and Selenium.
What is UI testing?
UI testing is a software testing type that controls the User Interface of a target application under test. UI testing involves checking forms and UI elements to ensure UI functionality works as per the specification and achieves a high standard of quality.
What is Selenium?
Selenium is an open-source and portable framework tool which is used for automating the tests carried out on web browsers. Basically, Selenium tells a browser to click some element, populate and submit a form, navigate to a page or do any other form of user interaction. It also provides a test domain-specific language to build tests some of the popular programming languages, such as C#, Java, Scala, Perl, and Python.
In the first stage, we have to make an isolated environment, use virtualenv:
virtualenv env --python==python2.7
source env/bin/activate
from selenium import webdriver
class AweberTest(unittest.TestCase):
@classmethod
def setUpClass(cls):
cls.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
def test_title(self):
self.driver.get('https://www.google.com')
self.assertEqual(
self.driver.title,
'Google')
@classmethod
def tearDownClass(cls):
cls.driver.quit()
from selenium import webdriver
# Taking input from user
search_string = input("Input the URL or string you want to search for:")
# This is done to structure the string
# into search url.(This can be ignored)
search_string = search_string.replace(' ', '+')
# Assigning the browser variable with chromedriver of Chrome.
# Any other browser and its respective webdriver
# like geckodriver for Mozilla Firefox can be used
browser = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver')
for i in range(1):
matched_elements = browser.get("https://www.google.com/search?q =" +
search_string + "&start =" + str(i))
from selenium import webdriver
import sys
# function to convert a list into string
def convert(s):
str1 = ""
return(str1.join(s))
# Assign the arguments passed to a variable search_string
search_string = sys.argv[1:]
# The argument passed to the program is accepted
# as list, it is needed to convert that into string
search_string = convert(search_string)
# This is done to structure the string
# into search url.(This can be ignored)
search_string = search_string.replace(' ', '+')
# Assigning the browser variable with chromedriver of Chrome.
# Any other browser and its respective webdriver
# like geckodriver for Mozilla Firefox can be used
browser = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver')
for i in range(1):
matched_elements = browser.get("https://www.google.com/search?q =" +
search_string + "&start =" + str(i))
