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Bringing new life into Edge Selenium Tools

Michael Mintz on September 03, 2020

This year, Microsoft Edge is officially reborn (in Chromium form) with tools to automate it, such as: https://github.com/microsoft/edge-selenium-to...

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sreidhark • Nov 21 '20

Hi Mr Mintz,
I am really surprised by the kind of work you put in seleniumbase.

Just started using this , but is there a way to use this in Behave(BDD) as the step functions don't work with classes and I don't see a way to use BaseCase from a normal function.
Appreciate your help.

Thanks
Sri

Michael Mintz • Nov 21 '20

Hi Sri,
Thank you. There's a special format for using SeleniumBase without BaseCase. This is done by using SeleniumBase as a pytest fixture. Here's an example of that:
github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBa...
This format may be needed when using other pytest fixtures in your tests.

# "sb" pytest fixture test in a method with no class
def test_sb_fixture_with_no_class(sb):
    sb.open("https://google.com/ncr")
    sb.type('input[title="Search"]', 'SeleniumBase\n')
    sb.click('a[href*="github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase"]')
    sb.click('a[title="seleniumbase"]')


# "sb" pytest fixture test in a method inside a class
class Test_SB_Fixture():
    def test_sb_fixture_inside_class(self, sb):
        sb.open("https://google.com/ncr")
        sb.type('input[title="Search"]', 'SeleniumBase\n')
        sb.click('a[href*="github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase"]')
        sb.click('a[title="examples"]')

sreidhark • Nov 23 '20

Thanks, Let me try and update you.

sreidhark • Nov 24 '20

Sorry for the trouble as I am completely new to behave.
what is "sb" ? Is it an object of some class that needs to eb instantiated in some fixture definition ?
Help appreciated.

Thanks
Sri

Michael Mintz • Nov 24 '20

You're probably looking for stackoverflow.com/a/41151454 , which explains pytest vs behave and has a link to pytest-bdd.

sb is the pytest fixture for SeleniumBase. Using SeleniumBase-as-a-fixture gives you the compatibility that you need to use pytest-bdd fixtures in your code at the same time, such as scenario, given, when, and then. Details on pytest-bdd can be found here: pypi.org/project/pytest-bdd/ . That is completely separate from SeleniumBase, but pytest does allow for the use of multiple fixtures at the same time.

sreidhark • Nov 24 '20

Thanks for the quick response. I will try.

sreidhark • Dec 3 '20

Hi,
Sorry for the long post, I am trying to run sb without pytest. I found this code below from your examples.

1) Are all these settings mandatory ?

2)I am trying to use Allure reports, but its seems sb.pytest_html_report = "sb_report.html" is not generating any report , nor even logs in sb.log_path = "latest_logs/"

3) Eventually I want to create an object of sb and call from behave test steps, some how fixtures thing above didnt work for me . I want to create a SeleniumBase object in environment file before a feature starts running and use the same in test steps.

I have tried writing my own framework, but somehow I keep coming back to your work as I know I cant produce such a comprehensive and stable work ( Kudos!)

Thanks
Sri

Code:

from seleniumbase import BaseCase

class MyTestClass(BaseCase):

def test_basic(self):
    self.open("https://store.xkcd.com/search")
    self.type('input[name="q"]', "xkcd book")
    self.click('input[value="Search"]')
    self.assert_text("xkcd: volume 0", "h3")
    self.open("https://xkcd.com/353/")
    self.assert_title("xkcd: Python")
    self.assert_element('img[alt="Python"]')
    self.click('a[rel="license"]')
    self.assert_text("free to copy and reuse")
    self.go_back()
    self.click_link_text("About")
    self.assert_exact_text("xkcd.com", "h2")
    self.click_link_text("geohashing")
    self.assert_element("#comic img")

if name == "main":
sb = MyTestClass("test_basic")
sb.browser = "chrome"
sb.headless = False
sb.headed = True
sb.start_page = None
sb.locale_code = None
sb.servername = "localhost"
sb.port = 4444
sb.data = None
sb.environment = "test"
sb.user_agent = None
sb.incognito = False
sb.guest_mode = False
sb.devtools = False
sb.mobile_emulator = False
sb.device_metrics = None
sb.extension_zip = None
sb.extension_dir = None
sb.database_env = "test"
sb.log_path = "latest_logs/"
sb.archive_logs = False
sb.disable_csp = False
sb.disable_ws = False
sb.enable_ws = False
sb.enable_sync = False
sb.use_auto_ext = False
sb.no_sandbox = False
sb.disable_gpu = False
sb._reuse_session = False
sb._crumbs = False
sb.visual_baseline = False
sb.maximize_option = False
sb.save_screenshot_after_test = False
sb.timeout_multiplier = None
sb.report_on = True
sb.pytest_html_report = "sb_report.html"
sb.with_db_reporting = False
sb.with_s3_logging = False
sb.js_checking_on = False
sb.is_pytest = False
sb.slow_mode = False
sb.demo_mode = False
sb.time_limit = None
sb.demo_sleep = 1
sb.message_duration = 2
sb.block_images = False
sb.settings_file = None
sb.user_data_dir = None
sb.proxy_string = None
sb.swiftshader = False
sb.ad_block_on = False
sb.highlights = None
sb.check_js = False
sb.cap_file = None
sb.cap_string = None

sb.setUp()
try:
    sb.test_basic()
finally:
    sb.tearDown()
    del sb

Michael Mintz • Dec 5 '20

Hi,
1) When using a hack like github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBa... to avoid using pytest, the variables still need to be initialized because pytest is no longer initializing them.
2) To get a pytest html report, add --html=report.html from the pytest command line (not the test itself!). For the Allure report, use --alluredir=ALLURE_DIR on the command line.
3) When using other pytest fixtures, you need to use SeleniumBase as a fixture for compatibility. See: github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBa... for an example of the sb fixture.

sreidhark • Dec 5 '20

Hi
2) Sorry, forgot to mention. I need the report when NOT running from pytest. How do I pass these arguments when running from main?

Thanks
Sri

Michael Mintz • Dec 5 '20

Hi Sri, those reports are specific to pytest plugins: pytest-html and allure-pytest. You'll need to use pytest for those reports to be generated.

sreidhark • Dec 6 '20

Thanks

Pablo Calvo • Sep 3 '20

Hey man thanks for sharing. Huge fan of SeleniumBase here. I am happy to hear that Edge people is making an effort for those who have been in Selenium 3 for a while.

Keep the posts coming.

Michael Mintz • Sep 3 '20

Thank you for the kind words. I'll keep the posts coming. :)