In 2011 Mozilla developed and released a pytest plugin that simplified the task of maintaining functional UI tests for over a dozen web applications. It has served us well, but its uses outside of Mozilla are limited - unless you happen to have exactly the same requirements as us. To address this, the plugin has been shattered into three: pytest-selenium provides a Selenium instance and browser (with some nice new features); pytest-html provides a handy HTML report; and pytest-variables provides a useful way to inject variables into your tests.

1. Mozilla Web QA
Evolution of our Python
WebDriver framework
@davehunt82 - http://blargon7.com

2. The TeamUnlike Honey Badgers, we do care!
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3. Foundations
Selenium Python pytest

4. pytest-mozwebqa
The clue is in the name...
✓ share common code
✓ transition to WebDriver
✓ custom HTML reports
✓ sauce labs integration
✓ credentials injection
๏ bespoke to Mozilla’s needs
๏ solves too many problems
๏ slow release process
๏ inadequate documentation
๏ incompatible with “live servers”

5. Evolution
pytest-variables
Simple variable injection for tests
pytest-html
HTML report for tests
pytest-selenium
Browser automation for tests

6. pytest-variableshttps://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-variables
{
"foo": "bar",
"bar": "foo"
}
def test_foo(variables):
assert variables['foo'] == 'bar'
assert variables.get('bar') == 'foo'
assert variables.get('missing') is None

7. pytest-htmlhttps://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-html
from http://qutebrowser.org:8010/waterfall
from http://qutebrowser.org:8010/waterfall

8. pytest-seleniumhttps://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-selenium
✓ no longer supports legacy Selenium RC
✓ uses pytest fixtures for support of live servers
✓ augments pytest-html report
✓ documentation!
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9. Demo
...all the things!

10. Resources
• pytest-variables - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-variables
• pytest-html - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-html
• pytest-selenium - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytest-selenium
• examples - https://github.com/mozilla/mozwebqa-examples
• team - https://quality.mozilla.org/teams/web-qa
• email - mozwebqa@mozilla.org