40_selenium.md

In-browser testing

.notes More and more functionality depends on both JS and server. Needs to be tested too.

Is easier than you think.

• Especially in Django 1.4.

• pip install selenium

• LiveServerTestCase

@@@ python
from django.test import LiveServerTestCase
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.webdriver import WebDriver

class MySeleniumTests(LiveServerTestCase):

    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        cls.selenium = WebDriver()
        super(MySeleniumTests, cls).setUpClass()

    @classmethod
    def tearDownClass(cls):
        super(MySeleniumTests, cls).tearDownClass()
        cls.selenium.quit()

    def test_login(self):
        self.selenium.get(
            "%s%s" % (self.live_server_url, "/login/"))
        username_input = self.selenium.find_element_by_name(
            "username")
        username_input.send_keys("myuser")
        password_input = self.selenium.find_element_by_name(
            "password")
        password_input.send_keys("secret")
        self.selenium.find_element_by_xpath(
            '//input[@value="Log in"]').click()

.notes LiveServerTestCase runs the development server in a separate thread.