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I understand this question may look subjective, so I will do my best to make this more specific.
I have created a suite of Selenium TestCases using Python. I want these tests to run each night, against a particular URL.
Where is the best place to store a large number of Selenium tests? And are there any tools which I can use to manage these tests, so that they run each evening?
Where is the best place to store a large number of Selenium tests?
The ideal place for your selenium tests would be a source code repository, like git or mercurial.
You don't have to host the repository yourself and can use third-party services, code hosting solutions like github or bitbucket.
And are there any tools which I can use to manage these tests, so that they run each evening?
The ideal place to run these tests would be a continuous integration (CI) server, which will aside from scheduling, solve the test result reporting problem, notifications etc. There is a number of available CI tools, like Jenkins or Bamboo.
There are also modern CI and delivery third-party services like Travis CI or Circle CI.
Also look into cross-browser and cross-platform services like Browser Stack and Sauce Labs. They may act as a remote selenium server for your tests.
Where is the best place to store a large number of Selenium tests?
In the project which they are testing. Always version control tests with the production code, or you will have a lot of extra pain for no gain.
[A]re there any tools which I can use to manage these tests, so that they run each evening?
A crontab or Jenkins timed job will do the trick, but I would very much advise to configure it to run your tests on every commit rather than every night.
Where to store tests: You use source code repository, do you? They are free.
How to run them: It depends how you designed the test suite - I assume to use some standard test runner?
We have great success with Jenkins as test runner. You can set up dependencies (run some group of test only if another group succeeded), and you see the run history and tendencies.
