python-automation

A short tutorial to automate web UI testing with Python and Selenium

Installation

1. Download python
2. Download Python Selenium bindings
3. Download drivers for your favorite browser

Contents

1. What is automated testing?
2. Python Selenium bindings
3. Locating elements in the HTML DOM
4. Navigating through pages
5. Waits

Exercise 0: Test your setup

Once you have installed python, python-selenium bindings and the web driver, let's test if the setup is complete

    from selenium import webdriver
    import time
    driver= webdriver.Chrome()
    driver.get('http://seleniumhq.org')
    time.sleep(2)
    driver.close()

Exercise 1: Locating elements by ID

• Download the file html_code_01
• Use the path of this file in your automation script and locate the element by ID loginForm

Exercise 2: Locating elements by name

• Download the file html_code_01
• Use the path of this file in your automation script and locate the element by name username

Exercise 3: Locating elements by xpath

• Download the file html_code_01
• Use the path of this file in your automation script and locate the login form element using relative xpath, absolute xpath and using xpath with an attribute

Exercise 4: Locate elements by class name

• Download the file html_code_01
• Use the path of this file in your automation script and locate the element by class name content

Challenge 1: Locate elements in the DOM

1. Go to http://www.seleniumhq.org/
2. Locate the element by id q
3. Locate the element by name q
4. Locate the element heading What is Selenium? by xpath
5. Find element by class selenium-sponsors

Exercise 5: Perform a simple search

• Navigate to http://python.org
• Find the search bar
• Perform a search for pycon

Exercise 6: Filling forms

• Download the file html_code_02
• Use the path of this file in your automation script
• Locate the select element by name numReturnSelect and select values by index, visible text and value
• Submit the selection made

Exercise 7: Drag and Drop

• Navigate to http://jqueryui.com/droppable
• Use ActionChains to drag and drop elements by offset or from a source to a target

Challenge 2: Navigate through a web page

1. Go to https://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontPage
2. Perform a Search for the text Beginner
3. In the left side menubar, change the value of the select from 'More Options' to 'Raw Text'

Exercise 8: Explicit wait

• Navigate to http://www.python.org
• Add an explicit wait of 10 seconds for the element with id start-shell

Exercise 9: Implicit wait

• Navigate to http://www.python.org
• Add an implicit wait of 10 seconds for the element with id start-shell