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Automation

For loop in Robot Framework helps you deal with repetitive tasks, enhancing test coverage while keeping your test cases readable and easy to maintain.

Selenium

Python automates web form filling with Selenium by locating input fields, dropdowns, radio buttons, checkboxes, date pickers, and file uploads, then sending values programmatically instead of typing them by hand. A working demo fills out a registration form's first name, last name, email, and password fields using Selenium's find_element and send_keys methods.

Selenium

Discover the art of automating mouse clicks with Selenium and Python. Streamline web form filling effortlessly. Explore effective automation techniques.

Automation

How monkey patching replaces Python classes, methods and modules at runtime, when it is the right call, the risks it carries, and safer alternatives.

Software Testing

Explore 8 useful pytest plugins to enhance your Python automation, boost test efficiency, add reporting, handle fixtures, and improve debugging.

Software Testing

In this blog, discover the ins and outs of using pytest skip test functionality: single, conditional, CLI, and more!

Software Testing

This Selenium Python tutorial deep dives into understanding pytest timeouts, including their configurations, handling exceptions, strategies, and best practices.

Automation

Write a Python config file in INI, YAML or JSON, read it with configparser, and keep environment settings and secrets out of your source code.

Automation

The Python end parameter sets what print() adds after each output, a newline by default. See how end='' keeps output on one line, with syntax and examples.

Automation

A headless browser runs in Python and Selenium without rendering a visible graphical interface, executing the same page interactions in the background to cut resource use, in one measured example lowering Chrome's CPU consumption from 78% to 44%. Headless Chrome and Headless Firefox are the two browsers set up and driven through Selenium's WebDriver for automated testing and web scraping.

Automation

Python takes screenshots during Selenium test runs using methods like get_screenshot_as_file, capturing the browser state at failure points for visual debugging and HTML test reports. Screenshots also support regression testing, comparing before-and-after images with libraries such as Pillow's ImageChops or OpenCV's absdiff() to catch UI changes that functional assertions miss.

Automation

Python tox is a command-line tool that automates testing across multiple Python versions and environments by reading a tox.ini file, creating isolated virtual environments, installing dependencies, and running test commands in each one. Combined with pytest and Selenium, it can run the same suite across Python 3.9 and 3.11 on both Chrome and Firefox.

Automation

Learn how Python's URL decode() method uses urllib.parse.unquote() to convert percent-encoded text back to readable form for accurate Selenium test assertions.

Selenium

Learn how Selenium WebDriver locates and clicks radio buttons using Python, checks their selected state, and handles hidden radio buttons with explicit waits.

Selenium

Discover how to address Selenium pytest failures efficiently. Explore debugging techniques, best practices, and ensure a reliable test framework.