Playwright Python / Pytest with Behave BDD & Live Projects

Discover Python core concepts essential for automation testing, including general purpose, interpreted, and dynamically typed language traits, object-oriented concepts, plus basic hello world, open source cross-platform use, and setup tips.

Install the latest Python 3 on Windows, add it to the path, and use pip to manage packages; explore PyCharm as the preferred IDE for automation with Selenium and Appium.

Install the PyCharm IDE and choose between community and professional editions to begin Python development, then create a project, set up a virtual environment, and print hello world.

Learn how Python variables are named and assigned, covering valid identifiers, starting with a letter or underscore, underscores for readability, private naming with double underscores, and keywords.

Explore Python data types, including int, float, complex, string, bool, and collection types like list, tuple, set, frozenset, and dict, with type checks, comparisons, and basic operations.

Master Python strings by using single or double quotes, escaping, indexing and slicing, multiline strings, strip, lower, and upper, concatenation, repetition, and f-string, format, and % formatting.

Explore Python operators, including arithmetic, relational, equality, logical, bitwise, shift, assignment, ternary, membership, and identity operators, with practical examples and string comparisons.

Explore equality and relational operators in Python, including equal to and not equal to, and learn logical operators and, or, not with true and false values.

Explore bitwise operators in Python, including and, or, xor, and not, and learn bit-level comparisons with real examples like 16 and 18 and their binary representations.

Explore left and right shift operators, showing how shifting 10 by two bits yields 40 and how right shifting yields 2, with binary representations.

Explore assignment operators such as =, +=, and *= in Python, examples of x manipulation, and learn how Python differs from Java on increment/decrement and the ternary operator.

Identify Python identity operators is and is not, showing when two references point to the same object. Learn membership operators in and not in, testing element presence in lists.

Learn Python flow control through if, else, elif, and nested if blocks, explore indentation rules, and see how conditions, grades, and basic loops operate.

Explore python loops, focusing on for loops and while loops, with practical examples of iterating over sequences, ranges, lists, tuples, and dictionaries, and printing results.

Master the while loop by executing code while a condition is true, with examples that print hello up to ten and sum the first n numbers from user input.

Explain break and continue statements in loops; break exits the current loop, while continue skips the current iteration and moves to the next, illustrated with range and even/odd printing.

Explore the else block inside a for loop in Python, using a cart example to show how break and continue affect iteration and when the else clause executes.

Use the Python pass statement as a null operation and placeholder to keep a loop or path valid when nothing should run, and distinguish it from break and continue.

Learn about Python list as a consecutive, order-preserving, mutable collection that can contain duplicates, and master operations like indexing, slicing, updating, deleting, appending, and sorting.

Explore core Python list operations, including repetition, concatenation, membership, iteration, and length, with examples using L1 and L2, and learn to convert a string to a list.

Explore Python dictionaries as key-value stores, learn to create, access, update, delete, and iterate over items, and work with nested dictionaries and lists, lengths, and keys.

Explore python tuples, created with parentheses, to store immutable sequences; learn indexing, slicing, repetition, concatenation, membership, and iteration, and note that you cannot assign or delete items.

Explore python sets, an unordered, unindexed collection that stores multiple types, enforces no duplicates, and learn core operations like add, remove, discard, copy, and clear.

Explore Python functions as reusable code blocks, learn their syntax and naming conventions, and how to call with parameters, return values, and handle required, keyword, default, and variable-length arguments.

Explore object oriented programming concepts in Python, including classes as blueprints, objects as instances, and how to access properties and methods via object instances.

Explore inheritance in Python, where a child class inherits properties and methods from a parent class, enabling code reuse across single-level, multi-level, and multiple inheritance, and understand method resolution order.

Explore polymorphism in Python by examining operator overloading, and contrast it with method and constructor overloading and overriding, with practical coding examples.

Learn how polymorphism arises from inheritance and method overriding, and why Python lacks true method and constructor overloading, illustrated by base and derived classes and adding methods.

Learn how Python method overriding works with base and derived classes, and how to use the super keyword to call base methods and constructors.

Define class-level static variables and instance variables in Python, showing how class variables are accessible via class or object and how changes to class variables affect all instances.

Explore Python's instance, class, and static methods, how self and cls relate to variables, and how @classmethod and @staticmethod enable calling methods from an object or a class.

Learn how abstract methods and abstract classes in Python use the ABC module to enforce overrides in derived drivers, such as Chrome and Firefox, before instantiation.

Learn how Python handles access specifiers: public by default, protected with a single underscore, and private with a double underscore, to support encapsulation and data hiding.

Explore how Python handles errors and exceptions, contrast compile-time and runtime errors, and master try-except and else blocks to control program flow and error recovery.

Explore Python exception types and hierarchy, learn to handle specific errors such as zero division and value errors, and use try, except, else, and finally blocks to ensure code reliability.

Learn to use PyTest, a Python unit testing framework, to convert code into test cases, generate HTML reports, and run end-to-end tests in PyCharm.

Explore pytest fixtures for running code before and after tests, including function level setup_function and teardown_function and module level setup_module and teardown_module.

Define and manage test fixtures in pytest using decorators, with module- and function-level scopes, yield-based teardown, and optional use of pytest.mark.usefixtures for streamlined test setup.

Explore pytest markers to categorize tests into functional and regression, register custom markers in pytest.ini, and selectively run or skip tests using -m and -k for live projects.

Learn to parameterize tests in pytest using the parameterize marker, supplying username and password data from a get data function that returns a list of tuples for multiple test iterations.

Learn how to validate test results in Python with pytest assertions, including reporting failures, using soft assertions to capture multiple failures, and running with the --soft-asserts option.

Set up a pytest-playwright project in PyCharm community, install browsers, and run a sync test using the page to navigate to a URL, capture the title, and assert it.

Create a conftest.py with pytest fixtures using Playwright's sync API to launch a Chromium browser with a defined viewport, maximizing before each test and exposing a reusable page fixture.

Learn to navigate web pages with browser navigation methods like go back, go forward, and refresh, including optional delays, and run targeted tests from the terminal using pytest.

Learn how to find elements with playwright locators and the auto waiting feature, using get by label, has text, XPath, and CSS strategies on Gmail and other pages.

Learn to handle drop down lists in html with the select and option tags using Playwright Python, including selecting by text, value, or index and counting options.

Learn to handle links with Playwright by printing link count and each link’s text and URL, and narrow the scope to a page block using block locators and nth selectors.

Automate a google.com search to count and print all links, then automate makemytrip.com to print values from the section for validation.

Explore XPath in depth for web element locators, focusing on creating unique relative and absolute XPath, using contains, indexing, and parent-child relationships with CSS and XPath.

Master XPath techniques for locating elements with relative, absolute, and partial paths, using browser dev tools and extensions to create, copy, and validate XPaths across Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.

Explore css selectors in depth, compare xpath and css locators, and learn to craft unique css patterns using id, class, attributes, and hierarchy, for reliable web element automation.

Discover selectors hub, a cross-browser plugin for Chrome and Firefox that generates CSS selectors and XPath, with code templates for Python and Java, plus a debugger to handle dynamic elements.

Learn to handle checkboxes in Playwright by inspecting elements, locating by name sports, isolating a block of four checkboxes, counting them, and looping to click them; applies to radio buttons.

Complete the assignment to ensure all four checkboxes are checked, then implement random two-check selection on each run, and finally print the text of each checkbox for validation.

Explore Playwright assertions with pytest to validate url and page title using expect, and verify visibility, text, and checkbox state.

Learn to handle dynamic web tables with Playwright by detecting total rows and columns, validating data, printing the entire table, and performing assertions on specific cells.

Handle a shadow root element with Playwright by locating it with a css selector and using the fill method to type a name without extra effort.

Learn to handle complex user gestures in Playwright, including mouse over and hover, by using locator strategies with XPath and the hover method to navigate to the DevOps page.

Learn to automate a slider in Playwright by locating the element, computing its center with bounding box, and dragging the mouse horizontally from start x to a target x.

Handle resizable elements in Playwright by dragging along the x and y axes, adjusting coordinates (400 on each axis), and verifying the resize with XPath.

Practice handling drag and drop in playwright by locating draggable and droppable elements, computing bounding boxes, and simulating mouse movements to perform a drop at the target center.

master right-click actions in playwright by locating an element with xpath, using page.locator to perform a right-click via button='right', then navigate to installation and how to setup.

Complete assignments: move the slider from right to left and center it, perform a drag-and-drop to a different target, and view setup steps in product info installation; post in qa.

Learn to handle JavaScript alerts in Playwright by configuring a dialog handler, capturing the message like 'Please enter a valid username', and accepting the alert to proceed.

Learn to handle frames in Playwright by switching to an iframe with a frame locator, clearing and filling form fields, clicking submit, and returning to the page when needed.

Master handling tabs and pop ups with playwright by triggering a new window from a privacy link, switching to the pop up, filling details, and closing both windows.