Splinter 0.9.0, the popular web app testing tool, released!
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Splinter 0.9.0, the popular web app testing tool, released!
Melisha Dsouza
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2018-08-28 08:09:34
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Splinter, the open source tool for testing web applications using Python has now leveled up to Splinter 0.9.0. Browser actions such as visiting URLs and interacting with their items can be automated.
Apart from providing a simple api, Splinter has multiple webdrivers including chrome webdriver, firefox webdriver, phantomjs webdriver, zopetest browser, and remote webdriver. It provides support to iframe, alert and executes javascript while working with both, ajax and async javascript.
Two ways to install Splinter 0.9.0
Step 1: Install Python
In order to install Splinter, you need to make sure that Python 2.7+ is installed.
Step 2: Install Splinter
There are two ways to install Splinter:
Install a stable release
For an official and almost bug-free version, use the terminal:
$ [sudo] pip install splinter
Install under-development source-code
For splinter’s latest-and-greatest features and aren’t afraid of running under development code, run:
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The bug related to element.find_by_text stands resolved. When trying to do a contextual search for text, the result would include all matching text for the whole DOM instead of just those nodes that are children of the contextual node.
Support was added for zope.testbrowser 5+, Flask 1+, selenium 3.14.0.