iTexico <main> 2020

This repository contains a hello world of Automation using Python, Pytest and Selenium Webdriver. This demo was presented in the iTexico <main> event last March 12, 2020.

Find the slides of the presentation in the following location:

• Test Automation Symphony

Getting started

1. Ensure that the latest version of Python is installed in your system.
2. If the Python installer doesn't add the Python installation directory with its corresponding libraries and scripts to your PATH environment variable, please do it.
3. Clone this repository or download the zip with the source code in to your local system.

git clone https://github.com/alejandro-serrano/itexico-main-2020.git

4. Download chrome webdriver, unzip the file if that is the case, move it to the drivers folder of this repository and finally add it to your PATH environment variable.

Prepare your development environment

1. In command shell change to the directory where the code of this repository live. Notice in my case I'm in a Windows environment, however, the commands should be similar for Mac or Linux.

C:\> cd itexico-main-2020

2. Create a python virtual environment.

C:\itexico-main-2020> python -m venv e2e

3. Activate the python virtual environment.

C:\itexico-main-2020> C:\itexico-main-2020\e2e\Scripts\activate.bat

(e2e) C:\itexico-main-2020>

4. Install pytest in your virtual environment.

(e2e) C:\itexico-main-2020> pip install -U pytest

5. Install selenium in your virtual environment.

(e2e) C:\itexico-main-2020> pip install -U selenium

Running the tests

1. You can run the tests suite from a command shell by calling the following command.

(e2e) C:\itexico-main-2020> pytest --verbose tests\

Demo