Python Selenium webdriver : Debugging

Question

I'm writing test in python using selenium webdriver and it's a real pain to debug it. Let's say my test is like this:

1. Connect
2. Click on "My Account"
3. Click on "Unsubscribe"
4. Disconnect

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Then:

• When I run the .py file it starts a new browser so if I want to debug the thrid action I have to run all my test. I can't say on my account page and try it a few times.
• The other issue is that the Browser close itself at the end of the test so I can't even understand exactly why it crashed. I only know where it crashed in the code.I tried "driver.quit()" but it's not doing anything.

Is there anyways to make the debugging easy?

Answer 1

If you are writing user tests, you may want to consider going one step higher and embrace BDD as your testing suite. There is fabulous library for it in python: lettuce, There is a Selenium webdriver for it.

This should make it much easier for you, as it will provide you not only with a very nice way to store, read and manage tests but also a common-ground between them (called terrain) where you can spawn browsers at various states, or even just pass along one from scenario to scenario if that is required.

Heck with use of hooks you can restart the state of a browser between states, which seems to be exactly what are you looking for.