argobeast 2.1.3

A Python-based test automation framework for Behave with a clean Page Object architecture and CLI scaffolding.

ArgoBEAST 🚀

The Professional Platform-as-a-Product (PaaP) for Web Automation

ArgoBEAST is more than a wrapper; it's a structural engine for high-scale testing. It transforms raw Selenium and Behave into a standardised, professional-grade framework with zero-config scaffolding and a strict separation of concerns.

Key Architectural Pillars:

• Standardized Scaffolding: Instant generation of the Page Object Model (POM) stack—Pages, Actions, Steps, and Features—via a dedicated CLI.
• Enterprise-Grade Logic: Built-in form handling, automatic configuration merging, and high-standard linting (10/10 Pylint).
• Selenium-First, Mobile-Ready: Native Selenium support with a roadmap focused on Appium integration for mobile testing.

Benefits

• 🧱 CLI scaffolding for pages, actions, steps, and project setup

• 🔄 Backend-agnostic architecture (Selenium today, Appium later)

• 🧪 Behave BDD support out of the box

• 📄 Automatic config loading and merging (defaults + user overrides)

• 📦 Packaged and reusable as a .whl

• 🧍 Separation of concerns (Pages → Actions → Steps → Features)

• 💥 Screenshot capture on failure

• 🧰 Extendable actions + reusable BasePage helpers

• 🪄 Magic hooks to enable simple reusable setup and teardown scenarios

• 📝 Easily complete entire website forms with built in form logic

Installation

Install via pip:

pip install argobeast

Or using UV (recommended for development):

uv add argobeast

To check the installation has run correctly run:

argobeast hello

Initiating a New Project

To initialise a project run:

argobeast init

This will give you the option to generate example files which can be used as a template for your testing. These starter files will assume you're building tests for a login page.

• actions/login_actions.py
• features/login_feature.feature
• features/steps/login_steps.py
• pages/login_page.py

For more information on how to use these files and create your own tests see Getting Started

Other files generated are:

• requirements.txt (This is a starter file including the initial requirements for your Behave & Selenium testing environment)
• config/driver.yml (This can be customised by the user)
• features/environment.py (Do not touch this file - behave relies on it to run the tests)

File Structure After Init

my-tests/
│
├── pages/
│   └── login_page.py
├── actions/
│   └── login_actions.py
├── features/
│   ├── login.feature
│   └── steps/
│       └── login_steps.py
├── config/
│   └── driver.yml
└── features/environment.py   <-- auto-loads framework hooks

• Pages
  • Store locators
  • Inherit BasePage
• Actions
  • Contain business logic
  • Inherit CommonActions
• Steps
  • thin Behave glue
  • call Actions
• DriverFactory
  • Selenium setup
• ConfigLoader
  • merges baked defaults with user config

More information on how to use these pages can be found in Getting Started

Other CLI Commands

ArgoBEAST includes simple commands for generating new pages, actions, steps, and feature files:

argobeast create page <name of page> # Replace <name of page>
argobeast create steps <name of page>
argobeast create actions <name of page>
argobeast create feature <name of feature> # A page can have multiple features, so make this descriptive

Configure Your Test Target

You can configure your test target by editing config/driver.yml

More information can be found about this in Getting Started

Roadmap

ArgoBEAST is actively developed with a focus on professional testing environments:

• Appium Integration: Expanding the DriverFactory to support mobile automation.
• Dockerized Execution: Standardised Dockerfiles for Selenium Grid and headless execution.
• Reporting Enhancements: Deep integration for Allure reports (logic currently in before_all).