Pylenium

Pylenium is a Python package, its mission: "Bring the best of Selenium, Cypress and Python into one package."

To get started, please make sure you have python3 installed. Then install the package:

pip install pyleniumio

Configuring capabilities

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

Before

driver = webdriver.Firefox()

After

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

To see how to do this, please select a combination of browser, version and platform in the drop-down menus below.

1. Select a Platform

2. Select a browser

Testing Internal/Staged 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 Lettuce Python 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:

Example terrain.py

from lettuce import before, world
from selenium import webdriver
import lettuce_webdriver.webdriver

@before.all
def setup_browser():
    desired_capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX
    desired_capabilities['version'] = 'latest'
    desired_capabilities['platform'] = 'WINDOWS'
    desired_capabilities['name'] = 'Testing Selenium with Lettuce'

    world.browser = webdriver.Remote(
        desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities,
        command_executor="http://key:secret@localhost:4445/wd/hub"
    )

Other Options

We offer many other test options, for example: disable video recording, specifying a custom Firefox Profile, loading Chrome/Firefox/Safari extensions, running an executable before your test starts, uploading files, ...
See our list of test options for a full list of options to customize your tests.

Parallel Testing

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.

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.

To run tests in parallel, we recommend using Nose and MultiProcessing, which makes it very easy to run multiple Python tests simultaneously:

pip install nose==0.11
pip install multiprocessing

nosetests --processes=<number_of_processes>

Reporting Test Results

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(world.browser.session_id, status_message=.., passed=1|0, build=.., name=..)

Pick a Python test framework

PyTest
PyTest makes it easy to run Selenium tests with Python.
Behave
Behave is behaviour-driven development, Python style.
Lettuce
Lettuce is a Python BDD plugin based on Ruby's Cucumber, offering Gherkin stories.
PyUnit
PyUnit is the standard unit testing framework module for Python, described as a Python version of JUnit.
Helium
Helium is a tool that makes it easy to test websites and automate browsers.