Selenium WebDriver With POM Pattern (Python and pytest)

Selenium is a free and open-source automated testing suite for web applications across different browsers and platforms¹. It's not just a single tool but a set of different software tools each with a different approach to support test automation¹. It primarily includes four components:

1. Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
2. Selenium Remote Control (RC)
3. WebDriver
4. Selenium Grid¹

On the other hand, Selenium WebDriver is a component of the Selenium suite that provides a programming interface to control a web browser through a program¹. It fits in the same role as Selenium-RC did and has incorporated the original 1.x bindings and included the WebDriver API¹. It refers to both the language bindings and the implementations of the individual browser controlling code¹.

Here are some key differences between Selenium and Selenium WebDriver:

• WebDriver is faster than Selenium RC because of its simpler architecture³.
• WebDriver directly talks to the browser while Selenium RC needs the help of the RC Server in order to do so³.
• WebDriver's API is more concise than Selenium RC's³.
• WebDriver can support Html Unit while Selenium RC cannot³.
• WebDriver overcomes the limitation of Selenium RC's Single Host origin policy¹.

Source: Conversation with Bing, 9/25/2023

1. What Is Selenium And What Is WebDriver? - Stack Overflow. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54459701/what-is-selenium-and-what-is-webdriver.
2. Difference between Selenium RC and WebDriver - Stack Overflow. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11535950/difference-between-selenium-rc-and-webdriver.
3. Difference between Selenium RC and Selenium Webdriver. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-between-selenium-rc-and-selenium-webdriver/.
4. Selenium IDE vs. WebDriver: Key Differences - Blazemeter. https://www.blazemeter.com/blog/selenium-ide-vs-webdriver.

WebDriver itself is a W3C standard, and the Selenium project is one of the most popular implementations. WebDriver can handle every type of web UI interaction such as clicking, typing and scraping text.

Many people treat “Selenium WebDriver” as almost synonymous with web UI testing. Selenium releases WebDriver packages in many popular programming languages.

Development

Virtual Environment

Install PIPENV

pip install pipenv

pipenv install

Necessary Packages

Selenium (Test Framework)

pipenv install selenium

Test Runner (Unit Test Framework)

pipenv install pytest

Manage Logs

pipenv install python-json-logger

Parallel Testing

pipenv install pytest-xdist

Create HTML Report

pipenv install pytest-html

Install All Packages

pipenv install selenium pytest python-json-logger pytest-html pytest-xdist

Static Testing

Install & Verify pre-commit

pipenv install pre-commit

pre-commit --version

Create Sample Config

pre-commit sample-config

Run pre-commit

pre-commit run

pre-commit run --all-files

Create pylint File

pylint --generate-rcfile >.pylintrc

Assertion

pipenv install assertpy