BrowserStack is a cloud-based testing tool that enables developers/testers to test their application across various browsers on different operating systems and mobile devices. We use Browserstack a lot at Qxf2 and recommend it to all our clients. We recently started using pytest to run our tests. We were surprised how quick and easy it was to configure pytest to run […]
pytest and Browserstack
Pytest-xdist: Run tests in parallel
Problem: How do you run tests in parallel with pytest? We have begun using pytest as our test runner at most of our clients. At one client, our tests are triggered by CircleCI and run on BrowserStack. Our GUI automation suite grew in size and was starting to take a long time to run against a vast combination of OSes […]
How to investigate pytest-warnings
We recently integrated pytest, a Pythonic test runner, with our framework. After the tests were executed, pytest threw a couple of warnings. We decided to share our findings as the Google search results to debug the pytest-warnings were not quite revealing. Solution: Use thepy.test -r wcommand to gather additional information about the warnings. Reporting in pytest: The py.test command runs […]
Python+Selenium+pytest tutorial
One of our clients recently introduced us to a really nice, Pythonic test runner called pytest. Thank you Vachan Wodeyar of Kahuna, Inc. for introducing and helping us get started with pytest! Our GUI automation framework lacked a good test runner. So it was tough to run all our tests with just one command. It also made reporting results […]