Getting nose test runner to execute a test against multiple browsers / configurations?

Question

Surely someone else has run into this problem. I'm trying to figure out how to loop through Firefox, Chrome, and IE in conjunction with nose.

Right now I have:

• "setup.cfg" file that specifies browsers
• a "common.py" that reads from the config file
• my actual "test.py" files that imports "common.py" and can reference global variables in it

The main trouble seems to be how to pass in the browser/driver into the setUp methods of the unittest.TestCase class.

One possible solution is to sub-class, and have a class for each browser. In that case I'm duplicating my test code three times, though, which is ugly.

Another possibility is to run nose in code. But I'm unsure how I would read the arguments from it inside my files.

Answer 1

Did you try using selenose? (this is the online document) I think this library might be the one fit you. It has something like this in setup.cfg:

[nosetests]

with-selenium-driver = true

selenium-driver = firefox

[selenium-driver:firefox]

webdriver = firefox

[selenium-driver:chrome]

webdriver = chrome

so, you can use command to run test like this:

nosetest --with-selenium-driver --selenium-driver=firefox