New browser window every new iteration

Question

I need to open every new iteration, new browser windows. For example:

class GoogleTest(unittest.TestCase):

    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        cls.browser = browser_incognito.chrome_incognito()
        cls.wait = WebDriverWait(cls.browser, 20)
        cls.browser.implicitly_wait(30)

    def test_01_goole(self):
        for i in range(3):
            browser = self.browser
            browser.get('http://www.google.com')

In this situation I don't see new browser windows. But in this situation:

class GoogleTest(unittest.TestCase):

    # @classmethod
    # def setUpClass(cls):
        # cls.browser = browser_incognito.chrome_incognito()
        # cls.wait = WebDriverWait(cls.browser, 20)
        # cls.browser.implicitly_wait(30)

    def test_01_goole(self):
        for i in range(3):
            # browser = self.browser
            browser = browser_incognito.chrome_incognito()
            browser.get('http://www.google.com')

I receive 3 new browser windows (browser_incognito.chrome_incognito() it's another module that I created). I need browser from setUpClass().

Answer 1

You are using setUpClass() this is only run once when the testClass is created.

I think you want to use setUp() instead which is called before each test.

setUp(): Method called to prepare the test fixture. This is called immediately before calling the test method; other than AssertionError or SkipTest, any exception raised by this method will be considered an error rather than a test failure. The default implementation does nothing.

Read the documentation to understand the difference better: https://docs.python.org/2/library/unittest.html#test-cases

For having setting up multiple browsers in your setup functions you could try to create an array.

def setUp(cls):
    cls.browser[1] = browser_incognito.chrome_incognito()
    cls.browser[2] = browser_incognito.chrome_incognito()
    cls.browser[3] = browser_incognito.chrome_incognito()

def test(self):
    for i in range(3):
        browser = self.browser[i]
        browser.get('http://www.google.com')