Working with Eclipse (PyDev)

PyDev It is a Python plugin for Eclipse. It helps to create and run Python projects in Eclipse IDE. First download Eclipse IDE. Then to install PyDev plug-in, Go to  Help -> Eclipse Market Place There in the search box give “PyDev” and click on Search. Below search results will populate. Since I have already …

Starting Selenium with Python

Let us see how to install Selenium module and work with webdriver.   I have installed Python 3.5.1. From Python 3.4, PIP installer(default python installer) is included in the python package. Go to cmd prompt. Then give below command. pip install –U selenium It will download the package and install it in your machine.   …

Python Scriptlets

No programmer gets comfortable with a language unless he do his favourite algorithms Let us see some Python Script lets   To add two numbers num1 = input('Enter first number: ') num2 = input('Enter second number: ') sum = float(num1) + float(num2) print('The sum of ', num1, ' and ', num2 ,'is ', sum)   …

Python – Functions, Class and Object

Python Function A Python function should have, Keyword def marks the start of function header. A function name to uniquely identify it. Function naming follows the same rules of writing identifiers in Python. Parameters (arguments) through which we pass values to a function. They are optional. A colon (:) to mark the end of function …

Python – Imports, I/O, Operators, Control Structures

Lets us see about Imports, Input and output Operations and Control Structures in this article Imports Being an object oriented language, Python is no short of in-built methods. The richness of a programming language depends on its inbuilt functions. Like java packages, Python have modules. The modules are just Python files (abc.py) with functions that …

Python – Keywords, Identifiers, Datatypes

Hi guys, Let us dive deep in Python Keywords in Python Below are the common keywords in Python. Many look familiar. Anyway we go through them in due course False class finally is return None continue For lambda try True def from nonlocal while and del global not with as elif if or yield assert …

Starting with Python!

Wondering why Python on a testing site? I have experience in using Selenium with Java. That you can learn in many websites. It is not much of a learning for you guys as well as me. So I am kick starting my Python - Selenium lessons. So let's do it together. Lets download Python here Install …

Software Testing – Lecture

Hi All, I got a chance to give a lecture on Software Testing to Excel College of Engineering, Salem. It was very interesting to speak to the young bloods who aspire to become future IT Engineers. Had a very good question answer session too. Here is a link to the presentation, I used. Software Testing …

Selenium Basics

Selenium is an open source testing tool. It automates manual actions performed by the user like enter text in a field, click a button etc. Selenium is a browser based tool, hence we could automate only Web applications. Selenium was developed by Jason Huggins in 2004 as a internal tool at ThoughtWorks. Initial it was …

Test Automation Basics

Test Automation Well, this is a buzz word. Every Client wants it and every company worships it. We cannot automate all the testing jobs. For example, if there is an application which is subjected to frequent changes the effort put into automation would be greater than the effort put to test it manually. But unfortunately, …