Introduction to using holmium page-objects to write tests using selenium in python.

1. Introduction to Holmium
Sajnikanth Suriyanarayanan
Presented at Vistaprint on 14th May 2014

2. 10+ years in Software Quality Assurance and Functional Testing
Lead Quality Assurance at Vistaprint Singapore
Contributor to Holmium
http://sajnikanth.com
About Me

3. Contents
Sample script
nosetests
Challenges
Page Objects
Using Holmium
Questions

4. Testing Login

5. nosetests
Organize tests better
Run selected tests
Plugin Architecture
List all tests
Test Runner (less boilerplate code)
Holmium is a nose plugin

6. Some Challenges

7. Page Objects
Remove elements from tests
Actions implemented as methods
Easy maintenance
Cleaner tests
http://pragprog.com/magazines/2010-08/page-objects-in-python

8. Holmium - Page Objects made easy

9. Holmium - Test Script

10. Uses holmium page objects
Browsers supported - chrome, firefox, opera, safari, ie, phantomjs
Run with nosetests

11. Other Options
Environment and login credentials can be a dictionary
User-Agents supported - iphone, ipad, android
...

12. Conclusion
Easier than vanilla page objects
More options during run time
No-BS test code
http://holmiumcore.readthedocs.org

13. Resources
https://github.com/sajnikanth/holmium-demo
View this presentation from http://sajnikanth.com

14. Questions?