z3c.webdriver 0.0.1

z3c.webdriver

This package provides tools and wrappers around selenium.webdriver.

We specially care about selenium.webdriver.PhantomJS, because:

• it’s easy to deploy, it’s a single executable, gp.recipe.phantomjs works

• it’s built on webkit

• it can be debugged with a Chromium / Chrome browser, incl. breakpoints

Things to watch out for:

• any single instance of PhantomJS acts as a single browser instance that means cookies and whatnot are shared if you intantiate more browsers for a single driver. Workaround could be to start more drivers.

• the headless browser is truly async, that means an AJAX click does NOT wait for the AJAX request to complete, you explicitely need to wait for it

• any single call to PhantomJS via selenium takes TIME

• zope.testbrowser supporting methods like getControl are slow now

• there are 2 options for setUp/tearDown, either the driver is started and torn down with the layer or with each test. Starting and stopping takes around 1.5-2 secs, so you decide whether you need separation or speed.

WARNING

This is WORK IN PROGRESS