Possible to sequentially run multiple python scripts in the same selenium session?

Question

I'm taking a shot at UI automation and I was wondering if it was possible to run tests from multiple python scripts in order in the same session?

So for example:

Script 1: Test to Login

Script 2: Test to click button

Script 3: Test to Logout

versus having a single script do all three tests in a single script.

I tried creating a BAT file that will initiate each script one by one, but it will open a new browser window for each execution.

note: Of course my actual code is much more complex and has many more test cases :) I just want to know if its even possible. Looking it up has been weird. Not sure how to word it out in a way where google would understand lol.

Answer 1

There's a Python Selenium framework called SeleniumBase that can do exactly that.

After pip install -U seleniumbase, you can run pytest --rs on the following script to reuse the browser session between tests. (There's a special part added at the top to automatically call pytest with those args if calling python directly):

from seleniumbase import BaseCase

if __name__ == "__main__":
    from pytest import main
    main([__file__, "--rs"])

class MyTestClass(BaseCase):
    def test_1(self):
        self.open("https://google.com")
        self.sleep(1)

    def test_2(self):
        self.open("https://facebook.com")
        self.sleep(1)

    def test_3(self):
        self.open("https://seleniumbase.io")
        self.sleep(1)

    def test_4(self):
        self.open("https://seleniumbase.com")
        self.sleep(1)

The --rs option will make all tests reuse the same browser session. To access the driver that you have via regular selenium, use self.driver.