Setup

Class

To set-up resources a single time for all the tests (perhaps for an database connection which is expensive to create):

from selenium import webdriver
import unittest

class SeleniumTwoTableView(unittest.TestCase):

    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        cls.browser = webdriver.Firefox()
        cls.browser.get('http://localhost:8000/two_table_view/')

    def _text(self, element_id):
        element = self.browser.find_element_by_id(element_id)
        return element.text

    @classmethod
    def tearDownClass(cls):
        cls.browser.close();

Note:

• The setUpClass and tearDownClass methods should be annotated with @classmethod (from How do I use the unittest setUpClass method()).

• The cls variable , can be accessed by test methods using self e.g. in the sample above, cls.browser is accessed in the test methods using self.browser.