Today I tried combining django's LiveServerTestCase
with splinter
and phantomjs
webdriver.
Here's what I do (simplified version):
class Test(LiveServerTestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.browser = Browser('phantomjs')
def tearDown(self):
self.browser.quit()
def test(self):
self.browser.visit(self.live_server_url)
self.assertIn("Hello world!", self.browser.title)
Sometimes tests run fine - even though taking a second per test method to execute. But sometimes it can randomly take ~100 seconds for that single test method to execute, or it just freezes until I am out of patience to wait for it to finish.
I use django_nose
as a test runner, and I pass --liveserver=localhost:8081-8181
range of ports to ./manage.py test
command.
Is there any way to speed it up? Is there other web test runner I can which is faster?
Default web driver seem to be more reliable speed-wise (1-3 seconds per test method), but it's still pretty slow. I also would prefer a headless browser for testing.