tierra_qa is a package that aims to find a new repeatable pattern for black box QA testing applied to any web application.

It is internally based on:

• py.test
• pytest-selenium
• pytest-bdd
• optionally on pytest-docker (TODO)

In the next future we'll provide a generic package generator for easy setup of testing.

py.test is one of the most promising test frameworks built with Python. It is a generic framework, so it is not bound to the BDD practise. So if you are going to test a Python based application, you'll have a unique BDD tool integrated with the unit, integration and functional tests running just only a command.

It provides a clever dependency injection mechanism for fixture creations and its focus is minimizing the amount of test code, reusability and modularity.

More links:

• http://pytest.org
• https://pytest.org/latest/fixture.html
• https://pytest.org/latest/example/markers.html
• https://pytest.org/latest/example/simple.html

Prerequisites:

• python-dev
• virtualenv
• Firefox, Chrome, etc

Clone the tierra_qa package and run:

$ python setup.py develop

Once installed you can launch tests with:

$ py.test --driver Firefox [--base-url http://anotherurl.com/] --credentials="USERID1;USERNAME1;PASSWORD1|..."

With the --credentials parameter you can specify different multiple user credentials splitted by a | character where:

• USERID1, stands for the user identifier used in test cases
• USERNAME1, stands for the username used for login
• PASSWORD1, password associated to the above username

The USERID1 will be used in order to mark tests if you want an authenticated session, for example::

import pytest

@pytest.mark.user('USERID1')
@pytest.mark.nondestructive
def test_login(loggedin_selenium):
    # you'll have a selenium session authenticated with the USERID1
    assert 1

By default the default base_url is http://tierratelematics.com/ and it is specified on setup.cfg file. If you provide multiple --base-url parameters your test suite will be automatically repeated against different environments (using same credentials).

Once you have installed tierra_qa you can create your own package typing the following command:

• tierra_qa_clone YOURPACKAGE_QA