rcom.recipe.seleniumenv 1.0dev-r4475

Tests development guidelines

To create a test, there are certain basic rules to follow:

1. The test should inherit from unittest.TestCase class (this can be done indirectly also).

2. The test should use certain global variables for the code to work on different environments and Plone instances. These are:

   • browser: For the browser used for the tests

   • port: For the port used to communicate with the server

   • url: For the url of the application under test

   • instance: The Plone site name (this depends on the name used for the site’s creation).

This variables should never be changed inside the test code, as the seleniumrunner script will set them at runtime according with the parameters received.

All this rules can be seen applied to the following Example test.

Example test

The following is an example test, it can be used as the basic structure for future tests:

from selenium import selenium
import unittest

class NewTest(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.verificationErrors = []
        self.selenium = selenium("localhost", port, browser, url)
        self.selenium.start()

    def test_new(self):
        sel = self.selenium
                        sel.open(instance + "/login.html")
        # Do specific tests in here

    def tearDown(self):
        self.selenium.stop()
        self.assertEqual([], self.verificationErrors)

Notice that the test doesn’t have much changes from the basic test exported using Selenium IDE, the firefox extension. The only difference are the variables used for the instantiation inside the setUp method.