My requirement is very simple:
- I have to login to my company's website
- Go to a specific page that contains reports/Insights represented as charts(PBI reports)
- select values from the dropdown in the filters available, click apply
- Capture the values/units represented in the chart
- Compare the captured values against the database
- Return the results
I know how to connect to database, run queries and store the output but i am fairly new to the web test automation part. I also know that we could use RPA framework to automate Web testing but the team doesn't want to have a separate framework from the existing ones.
The chart are PBI visuals embedded in the web page. I cannot share a screenshot of the web page as we are not supposed to share them in a public forum.
can someone help me understand how i can achieve the above mentioned steps using the Python script? can it be done with request and beautifulsoup modules or is there a better to do it? Any ideas are always welcome.
CodePudding user response：
UI Web testing is done by running automated browsers though special drivers.
There are several wrapper-libs around that drivers, most popular ones is: Selenium, Playwright and Puppeteer
I recomend using playwright as it's the most modern and convinient one.
You could start from "Getting Started" section of docs
CodePudding user response：
I would recommend to start with beautifulsoap and selenium. It's pretty easy. Just go into their docs and you'll understand after few minutes.