using python-selenium to perform some basic and advanced testing on some of the popular websites
In this tutorial we will be using python-selenium to perform some testing
First of all create a file and name it whatever you wish, I have named it
python_org.py
Import the necessary python packages
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
selenium.webdriver is all we need to open the Firefox browser, and yes we will be
using Firefox that works pretty fast and
easily with selenium. Install the required geckodriver from the docs or refer my Github tutorial on scraping with selenium
Finally we will be opening the python official website in Firefox browser using the
webdriver
python_org.py
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://python.org")
assert "Python" in driver.title
driver.quit()
driver.get(url) opens the url in the browser tab. Here we are asserting
"Python" string in the title of the url we just opened using driver.title
At last we quit() the driver which closes the browser window.
Now we will be performing some operations using advanced selenium methods.
##Objective
- Open the python.org
- Enter
pyconin search bar of website - Press Enter to start search
python_org.py
elem = driver.find_element_by_name('q')
elem.clear()
elem.send_keys("pycon")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source
Now is the time that we use the Keys that we imported. Webdriver has a lot of
methods that can be used for interaction with the website, one of the method is
get_element_by_name('q') which finds and returns the html element that has name
attribute set to q ofcourse you can find any element as long it exists on the
website.
After that we use clear() function to clear any previous or intitial values set in
the element. Then we enter pycon using elem.send_keys(value) which types in the
value inside the search form and at last we press Enter or tell to search the word
pycon