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PyUnit Automated Testing

See our PyUnit example repository for a simple example on how to run PyUnit tests on TestingBot.

Let's start with making sure Python is available on your system.

For Windows: For Linux/macOS:
  • Run python --version to see which Python version is currently installed, make sure it is 2.5.X or above.
  • macOS, Ubuntu and most other Linux distros come with Python pre-installed.

Installation

First, make sure you have installed the correct Python Packages: 

sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install selenium
sudo pip install testingbotclient

You are now ready to start testing with our Selenium grid.

Example code

import unittest
import sys

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
from testingbotclient import TestingBotClient

class Selenium2TestingBot(unittest.TestCase):

	def setUp(self):
		desired_capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX
		desired_capabilities['version'] = 'latest'
		desired_capabilities['platform'] = 'WINDOWS'
		desired_capabilities['name'] = 'Testing Selenium with Python'

		self.driver = webdriver.Remote(
			desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities,
			command_executor="http://key:secret@hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub"
		)
		self.driver.implicitly_wait(30)

	def test_google(self):
		self.driver.get('http://www.google.com')
		assert "Google" in self.driver.title

	def tearDown(self):
		self.driver.quit()
		status = sys.exc_info() == (None, None, None)
		tb_client = TestingBotClient('key', 'secret')
		tb_client.tests.update_test(self.driver.session_id, self._testMethodName, status)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	unittest.main()

Configuring capabilities

To run your existing tests on TestingBot, your tests will need to be configured to use the TestingBot remote machines. If the test was running on your local machine or network, you can simply change your existing test like this:

Before: 
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
After: 
driver = webdriver.Remote(
  command_executor='http://key:secret@hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub',
  desired_capabilities=desired_caps)

Specify Browsers & Devices

To let TestingBot know on which browser/platform/device you want to run your test on, you need to specify the browsername, version, OS and other optional options in the capabilities field.

1. Select a Platform
2. Select a browser

Testing Internal Websites

We've built TestingBot Tunnel, to provide you with a secure way to run tests against your staged/internal webapps.
Please see our TestingBot Tunnel documentation for more information about this easy to use tunneling solution.

The example below shows how to easily run a PyUnit test with our Tunnel:

1. Download our tunnel and start the tunnel: 

java -jar testingbot-tunnel.jar key secret

2. Adjust your test: instead of pointing to 'hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub' like the example above - change it to point to your tunnel's IP address.
Assuming you run the tunnel on the same machine you run your tests, change to 'localhost:4445/wd/hub'. localhost is the machine running the tunnel, 4445 is the default port of the tunnel.

This way your test will go securely through the tunnel to TestingBot and back:

import unittest
import sys

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
from testingbotclient import TestingBotClient

class Selenium2TestingBot(unittest.TestCase):

	def setUp(self):
		desired_capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX
		desired_capabilities['version'] = 'latest'
		desired_capabilities['platform'] = 'WINDOWS'
		desired_capabilities['name'] = 'Testing Selenium with Python'

		self.driver = webdriver.Remote(
			desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities,
			command_executor="http://key:secret@localhost:4445/wd/hub"
		)
		self.driver.implicitly_wait(30)

	def test_google(self):
		self.driver.get('http://www.google.com')
		assert "Google" in self.driver.title

	def tearDown(self):
		self.driver.quit()
		status = sys.exc_info() == (None, None, None)
		tb_client = TestingBotClient('key', 'secret')
		tb_client.tests.update_test(self.driver.session_id, self._testMethodName, status)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	unittest.main()

Run tests in Parallel

Parallel Testing means running the same test, or multiple tests, simultaneously. This greatly reduces your total testing time.

You can run the same tests on all different browser configurations or run different tests all on the same browser configuration.
TestingBot has a large grid of machines and browsers, which means you can use our service to do efficient parallel testing. It is one of the key features we provide to greatly cut down on your total testing time.

Example code (Selenium WebDriver Parallel testing)

from threading import Thread
from selenium import webdriver
import time

API_KEY = "KEY"
API_SECRET = "SECRET"

def get_browser(caps):
	return webdriver.Remote(
			desired_capabilities=caps,
			command_executor="http://%s:%s@hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub" % (API_KEY, API_SECRET)
		)

browsers = [
  { "platform":"WINDOWS", "browserName" : "firefox", "version" : "latest-2", "name" : "FF" },
  { "platform":"WINDOWS", "browserName" : "firefox", "version" : "latest", "name" : "FF" },
  { "platform":"LINUX", "browserName" : "chrome", "name" : "Chrome" },
  { "platform":"MAC", "browserName" : "safari", "version" : "latest", "name" : "Safari" }
]
browsers_waiting = []

def get_browser_and_wait(browser_data):
	print "starting %s" % browser_data["name"]
	browser = get_browser(browser_data)
	browser.get("https://testingbot.com")
	browsers_waiting.append({ "data" : browser_data, "driver" : browser })
	print "%s ready" % browser_data["name"]
	while len(browsers_waiting) < len(browsers):
		print "browser %s sending heartbeat while waiting" % browser_data["name"]
		browser.get("https://testingbot.com")
		time.sleep(3)

thread_list = []
for i, browser in enumerate(browsers):
	t = Thread(target=get_browser_and_wait, args=[browser])
	thread_list.append(t)
	t.start()

for t in thread_list:
	t.join()

print "all browsers ready"
for i, b in enumerate(browsers_waiting):
	print "browser %s's title: %s" % (b["data"]["name"], b["driver"].title)
	b["driver"].quit()

Queuing

Every plan we provide comes with a limit of parallel tests.
If you exceed the number of parallel tests assigned to your account, TestingBot will queue the additional tests (for up to 6 minutes) and run the tests as soon as slots become available.

Mark tests as passed/failed

As TestingBot has no way to dermine whether your test passed or failed (it is determined by your business logic), we offer a way to send the test status back to TestingBot. This is useful if you want to see if a test succeeded or failed from the TestingBot member area.

You can use our Python API client to report back test results.

tb = testingbotclient.TestingBotClient(key, secret)
tb.tests.update_test(self.driver.session_id, status_message=.., passed=1|0, build=.., name=..)

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