#25364: Provide a more generic way to test different browsers in selenium tests
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Reporter: timgraham | Owner: akki
Type: New feature | Status: assigned
Component: Testing framework | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 1
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by MoritzS):
I may be a bit late for this, but I see a problem with this approach.
Right now the selenium browser is started in `setUpClass()` and closed in
`tearDownClass()`. This means that the browser has to be started once for
every test class.
This new approach does a bit of Meta class and method copying hacking to
provide a new method `test_foo__browser` for all test functions and
browsers. But then a single test class has tests for ''different''
browsers. This means that the selenium browser started can't be started in
`setUpClass()` so the logic for starting it was moved to `setUp()`. That
however means that the browser is started and closed once for '''every'''
test case. If you consider that starting the browser can take up to a few
seconds (especially on the CI system), I'd say that solution is not
acceptable.
I can think of a solution that works by creating a new test class for each
browser in the meta class' `__new__()` method and then return a proxy
class containing those newly created classes that knows how to run the
tests on all of them.
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