Advantage of python unit test in selenium

Question

Hi I started building up automation suite using selenium with python. As most tutorial used python unit test framework.

I have 5 scenarios of testing login page. Next 50 or more test are going to be needed already logged into the app.

I find unittest framework is rigid and do not give enough flexibility. found This link simply building own framework, other than using already written assertions, I don't see any big advantages using unit test framework as tester. May be it's good for unit-testing for python developers. Can anybody please enlight me if I'm wrong.

Answer 1

You are not wrong, the unit test framework is a good way to demo something or have a proof of concept, but it is limited for slower, complex integration tests.

In my current project I have tried proboscis which has somewhat richer feature set, and recently moved Robot framework. Both were better than plain unittest but still lacks some features.

If you are using a continuous integration framework don't forget integration with it, unittest and Robot have ready, out of the box, integration including user friendly results display

Answer 2

How much experience do you have in Python development? Not sure what features are you missing in Pyunit (which cannot be added with reasonable efforts).

Py.test is extremely popular python test framework with rich and flexible features. The catch is, you need to learn how to use those features.

I prefer to use the simplest tool for the job, which is mature enough and having likely long-time support. Both Pyunit and py.test fits that description.

I found Pyunit simple enough, and easy enough to customize and extend by adding the features I needed (simpler that learning how to configure those same features in Py.test). YMMV.