Setting up QA Automation

Creating working directory and pulling the framewrok from GitHub

mkidir ~/qa

Navigate to working directory

cd qa

Install the required framework and libraries

Install python and virtual enviroment

sudo pip install virtualenv
brew install python
virtualenv -p python3 <env_name>
source <env_name>/bin/activate

Install the required libraries

pip install -r requirements.txt

List of Browsers

Tests can be executed on 2 versions of Chrome (chrome74 and chrome79), safari and firefox.

Safari

To execute tests on Safari, you need to download Safari Technology Preview. To prepare Safari Technology Preview for remote automation:

1. Enable Develop menu in the Safari browser, click Safari Technology Preview > Preferences > Advanced Tab
   Select the Show Develop Menu check box. The Develop menu appears in the menu bar.
2. Enable Remote Automation click Develop > Allow Remote Automation in the menu bar

Chrome

We can execute tests on two versions of Chrome. To run tests on chrome, specify browser version: chrome79 or chrome74. We need to download binaries for the two versions from here: :Download older versions of Chrome for Mac Download Chrome version 79 and version 74 for mac and place them in binaries folder.

Firefox

If not already there, download the [latest version of firefox] (https://www.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/mac/ ) and install it.

Running the tests

There are different ways that tests can be executed.
To run all the tests on all the browsers:

python run.py

To run all the tests on specific browser(s)

python run.py -b chrome79,safari

To run specific feature:

python run.py -p notes -b chrome79

To further drill down to running desktop or mobile only within a feature:

python run.py -p notes/desktop -b chrome79

To run a specific testcase:

python run.py -p notes/desktop/TC_201_001_create_session_note_test.py -b chrome