Test Automation Frameworks with PyTest

Overview

This document aims to teach PyTest to enable readers to update and contribute automation frameworks.

There is one important file in this repository which is pytest.org. By inspiring from literate programming idea, this file is main source to generate both document and code used in this repository.

License

Test Automation Frameworks with PyTest by Aziz KAVAS is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Target Audience

Target audience of this work is the developers who use automated test frameworks during their daily workflow and aims to teach them how can improve, contirbute and benefit more from it.

This document consist of 2 main sections:

Introduction: This section aims to create fundamental understanding about PyTest and automation frameworks. This part includes the headers until and including Basics of Test Results Reporting and Tracking Test History.
Framework Customization: This section includes the impletation of best practices mentioned in the introduction. Besides, it explains the usage of some commonly used 3rd party plugins and tips about how to structurize tests for real-life practices.

Usage

Each section is seperated under a specific commit. Thus, if readers wish to run the codes used while explaining the fixtures, they can just checkout related commit via git checkout <commit-sha>.

Specific to emacs user, final form of the repository can be generated via M-x org-babel-tangle command.

Contributing

Please do not hesitate to contact to share your feedbacks.

Installation

Brief instructions on how to install the packages required for this repository on a Debian-based system are given below:

Update your package manager and install virtual environment for python.
```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3-venv
    
```

Upgrade the pip.

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

I will place my repository inside ${HOME}/venvs/frameworkenv/ folder. Therefore, create virtual environment inside this file.
```
cd ~/venvs/frameworkenv/
python -m venv ./venv
    
```

Activate virtual environment and install pytest.

source ./venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install pytest

To quit from virtaul env just use deactivate command.
```
deactivate
    
```

(Extra) To see the list of installed packages, you can use pip list or pip freeze.

pip list 2>&1
pip freeze # This can be used to generate requirements.txt file also

If you are facing another issue about management of python packges see more about python package management guide here.

Revision History

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Acknowledgements

I would like to express my gratitude to the authors and contributors of the pytest documentation, whose insights and explanations have served as a valuable resource in the creation of this teaching document. Their dedication to clarity and thoroughness has been instrumental in shaping the content presented here.

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Contact

For inquiries, clarifications, or permission for uses not covered by the license, please contact:

Name: Aziz KAVAS
Email: kavasaziz@gmail.com

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