Python WebUI Test Automation with Playwright Tutorial

This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide on using Python and Playwright for WebUI test automation.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Prerequisites
• Getting Started
• Running UI Tests
• Running API Tests
• Running All Tests
• Debugging Tests
• Allure Report
• License

Introduction

In this tutorial, we will explore how to use Python and Playwright to automate WebUI tests.

Prerequisites

Before getting started, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed:

• Python 3.x
• PIP

   python3 -m ensurepip

• venv

   pip install virtualenv

Getting Started

To get started with Python and Playwright, follow these steps:

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Open a terminal and navigate to the project directory.
3. Create and activate isolated environment by running following commands

python3 -m venv venv

For Linux & Mac run

source venv/bin/activate

For Windows run

venv\Scripts\activate.bat

4. Install the project dependencies by running the following command:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Running UI Tests

1. Running UI tests in headless mode Chrome

python3 -m pytest -m webtest tests --verbose

2. Running UI tests in headed mode & specific browser(chromium,firefox,webkit)

python3 -m pytest -m webtest tests --browser webkit  --headed --verbose

3. Running UI tests in headed mode in all browsers in parallel

python3 -m pytest -m webtest tests --numprocesses auto --browser chromium --browser firefox --browser webkit  --headed --verbose

Running API Tests

Running API tests using Playwright

python3 -m pytest -m apitest -s tests --screenshot on --verbose

Running All Tests

1. Running All tests using Playwright in headless mode

python3 -m pytest -s tests --screenshot on --verbose

1. Running All tests using Playwright in headed mode

python3 -m pytest -s tests --screenshot on --verbose --headed

Debugging Tests

In order to launch Playwright inspector and debug specific tests run following commands

PWDEBUG=1 python3 -m pytest -s -k test_basic_duckduckgo_search --verbose

Allure Report

By default test summary will be posted into commandline

In order to generate HTML report using Allure reporting framework run tests with --alluredir parameter

python3 -m pytest -s --alluredir=allure-results tests --numprocesses auto --browser chromium --browser firefox --browser webkit --screenshot on --video on --headed --verbose

And the generate and open report in browser by running

allure serve -h localhost

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.