Question

I’ve recently started using windmill and python to run automated tests of my web application. This is the python script that windmill auto-generated from recording my events:

# Generated by the windmill services transformer
from windmill.authoring import WindmillTestClient
import string
import random

    def test_recordingSuite0():
        client = WindmillTestClient(__name__)

        client.click(id=u'input-999052296848829736')
        client.type(text=u'btsr65ejdfgdjdfg', id=u'input-999052296848829736')
        client.click(id=u'input-999052296848829736-1')
        client.type(text=u'dfgdbdfgdfgjdfgjd', id=u'input-999052296848829736-1')
        client.click(name=u'_u911175390904082714')
        client.select(option=u'1', name=u'_u911175390904082714')
        client.click(value=u'1')
        client.click(id=u'input-497945674625883994')
        client.type(text=u'[e-mail]', id=u'input-497945674625883994')
        client.click(name=u'_u969737303932735624')
        client.radio(name=u'_u969737303932735624')
        client.type(text=u'asdg9a7e0g57wn4bgwsdfhsdfhsdfhssdhsd', id=u'input-542327653202413691')
        #client.click(name=u'submit')
        #client.waits.forPageLoad(timeout=u'20000')

I’m totally new to python and I’m working on learning some of the syntax right now. But can someone help me make the input-text random in the various fields?

For example: line 2:
On one test I would like

client.type(text=u'LAKJSDOGUSDGSDGS', id=u'input-999052296848829736')

and on another:

client.type(text=u'908374098afsDGSGS', id=u'input-999052296848829736')

(random, different)

Thanks!

Answer 1

At the top of your program, you import the necessary modules and you get the list of characters that you want to put in your random strings:

import string
import random

CANDIDATE_CHARS = string.ascii_letters+string.digits  # lowercase and uppercase letters, and digits

In the test function, you create a random string of alphanumeric characters, like so:

random_text = u''.join(random.choice(CANDIDATE_CHARS) for _ in range(16))  # 16 random characters
client.type(text=random_text, id=u'input-999052296848829736')