tedlandis / flights

Flight Schedule Testing

This project demonstrates pytest-bdd based gherkin functional testing from a python virtual environment.

It tests website functionality using a selenium browser interface to interact with a flight scheduling website.

In order to keep the Step Definition python code accessible to the largest audience, two layers of abstraction are used.

The standard python selenium module is wrapped by splinter, an abstraction layer which provides a more pythonic access to the Selenium WebDriver.

Splinter itself is partially wrapped by pytest-bdd-splinter, via a set of common Step definitions which can be used in pytest-bdd Scenarios.

The common Steps defined in pytest-bdd-splinter are then seamlessly extended with custom Step definitions by either making calls to Splinter methods or directly to the Selenium Webdriver if required.

To Do:

• migrate the tests from the virtual environment to a docker container
• run tests against standard selenium grid docker containers
• add support for Page Objects
• extend Feature Scenarios
• either:
  • get pytest-bdd-splinter Steps to handle Scenario Outlines
  • or revert to pytest-bdd and splinter

MacOS Setup

1. Install brew

   /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

2. Install Python 3.7

   brew install python3.7

3. Install pipenv

   brew install pipenv

4. Install geckodriver for Firefox

   brew install geckodriver

5. Install Firefox from getfirefox.com

Python Virtual Environment Setup

cd flights
pipenv install

Run Tests

pipenv shell
pytest