Pytest Test Automation On An Online Cloud

Selenium is an open-source test automation framework for testing websites and webapps. Used mainly for end-to-end automation of browser based web testing, it is the most popular automation testing framwork. Pytest on the other hand, picks up where selenium gets left off. It extends selenium and is a full featured test automation framework that can used for everything including unit tests, end-to-end tests, integration tests, and much more. In most practical use cases developers and testers do not use just vanilla Selenium. Users usually use both Selenium and frameworks like Pytest together.

Pytest is a Python based unit test automation framework with great features like annotations, fixtures, test runners, etc. It has in-built classes that help in assertions, testcase management, and organizing test results.

Latest versions of Pytest 5 have out-of-the-box support for running tests in parallel. Pytest Jupiter, a component of Pytest 5, has a configuration set that can be leveraged to run tests in parallel. For users using older version, they can run tests in parallel using Pytest runners, surefire plugin, etc. All these methods are supported at LambdaTest platform. You can run parallel tests at LambdaTest using Pytest.

LambdaTest online Selenium Automation Grid enables you to run end-to-end Pytest tests on a secure, robust, and scalable Selenium grid infrastructure. With LambdaTest, you can run Python based tests across 3000+ different browsers in parallel. You get higher test coverage and at the same time much shorter build times. Refer to our Pytest documentation.