My Python Selenium Demo on Google page

Note: I used PyCharm IDE as it's easy to import necessary libraries and has an isolated virtual environment.

It also has linting rules to ensure what you code follows PEP 8

Step 1: Ensure correct dependencies are installed

Visit tag v1.0.0 See the attached requirements.txt

Quickly check if you can navigate to Google by scripting some navigational code. See test_search.py

NOTES

If you're facing ChromeDriver issues, use the DriverManager library so it automatically installs the latest driver.

Step 2: Test displaying Test Results

Visit tag v1.0.0 Setup your test script as a unit test file by the following:

1. Structure test as a class with param as "unittest.TestCase"
2. Create a setup and teardown method for your driver
   • annotate it with @classmethod
3. Insert your webdriver script into the method
4. Go to "Run" > "Edit Configurations", then add your test file as a "Python Test"
   • make sure the target file is the class file you just created
5. When you right-click your python test file, you can click "Run" and it will run as unit tests
   • you can see results in your PyCharm IDE below

Step 3: Implement Page Object Model

Visit tag v1.0.0

Page Object Model makes it easier to:

1. Build automation scripts quickly. If someone defined the page object and methods already, you can use it.
2. More developer friendly. It's easier to understand the test behavior at a higher level
3. Easier maintainance so if several page objects change, you can edit it quickly

So here's what I did:

1. Create a Locators file so centralize page object definitions
2. Create a SearchPage to define Webdriver actions in a higher level so it's easier to understand
3. Refactor my current test script to use SearchPage

Now it's easier to read

Step 4: Add more tests

I added more tests. To run all the tests in the file, right-click the class name and run them. Since I'm testing on Google.com, I added an Explicit Wait since searching queries could take time to appear.

Notes

• Create an explicit wait from Python's WebDriverWait
  • more StackOverflow details
  • explicit waits will wait until the element is present before proceeding to next step