Mozilla Web QA: (re)volution of our WebDriver-based Python-testing framework

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Mozilla Web QA: (re)volution of our WebDriver-based Python-testing framework

Abstract : In 2011 Mozilla developed and released a pytest plugin that simplified the task of maintaining functional UI tests for over a dozen web applications. It has served us well, but its uses outside of Mozilla are limited - unless you happen to have exactly the same requirements as us. To address this, the plugin has been shattered into three: pytest-selenium provides a Selenium instance and browser (with some nice new features); pytest-html provides a handy HTML report; and pytest-variables provides a useful way to inject variables into your tests. We're going to demonstrate each of these plugins independently, and also show how you can combine them to make the most out of them.

Bio of Dave Hunt : Dave Hunt works for Mozilla on the Web QA team, as a Senior Test Engineer. He's the original author of pytest-mozwebqa, and recently officially joined the team from various other test and automation positions within Mozilla. He maintains a personal blog at http://blargon7.com/ , where among other, more-personal topics, he blogs about test automation, in particular.