Selenium configurator’s documentation¶
This library provide an helper api for selenium launchers. it prepares multiple selenium web drivers from a configuration file. This aims to help launchers to run 1 task over multiple browsers through various selenium web drivers (local, grid, cloud provider...).
Resources¶
intended persons¶
- Developers writing a configuration file which want to read a configuration format reference
- Contributors or developer that want to extend nor add new features
- Developer using directly this library to reuse this configuration format and wants to launch selenium test by itself.
Quick overview¶
This is what looks like a selenium configuration file to prepare 5 webdrivers (2 local Firefox with different configs / 1 local Chrome / 1 chrome on selenium Grid / 1 firefox on selenium Grid):
drivers:
- class: selenium_configurator.drivers.local.Chrome
capabilities:
cap1: Chrome_capability1
- class: selenium_configurator.drivers.local.Firefox
- class: selenium_configurator.drivers.local.Firefox
capabilities:
cap1: Firefox_capability1
- class: selenium_configurator.drivers.remote.Grid
command_executor: http://grid.example.com:4444/wd/hub
capabilities:
cap1: grid_capability1
cap2: grid_capability2
request_drivers:
- browserName: chrome
platform: LINUX
version:
cap2: chrome_grid_capability2
- browserName: firefox
platform: LINUX
version: "3.4"
cap1: firefox_grid_capability1
global_capabilities:
cap1: global_capability1
cap2: global_capability2
cap3: global_capability3
Known projects using this library¶
- nose-selenium-multi-browser: is a nose plugin that duplicate a testCase as many times as there are configured browsers then those tests can be launched in parallels.
- selenium-odoo-qunit: This is a CI launcher to run Odoo Qunit tests on multiple browsers at once using selenium.