Installation

This section shows how you can install this BalderHub package.

Install python

For this python in the version 3.9 or higher is required. You can get the latest version of python at https://www.python.org/downloads/ or install it with your packet management system of your operating system.

Install balder

You can easily install balder in different ways, that are described here.

python -m pip install baldertest

Install balderhub-html

You can easily install this package with the following command:

python -m pip install balderhub-html

Install and Assign GUIControl Package

If you want to control the HTML components in this package, you’ll need a package that implements GUI controls, at least at the setup level.

The following list shows some examples of these packages, along with instructions on how to install them:

Project	Install with Command	Description	Link to Documentation
`balderhub-selenium`	`pip install balderhub-selenium`	package to control browsers with selenium	Documentation GitHub
`balderhub-playwright` (COMING SOON)		package to control browsers with playwright	NOT YET RELEASED
`balderhub-appium` (COMING SOON)		package to control browsers or android/ios apps with Appium	NOT YET RELEASED
`balderhub-textual` (COMING SOON)		package for testing textual applications (see Textual Documentation)	NOT YET RELEASED

Just assign these to the device that represents the HTML page, and this package will handle everything else.

import balder
from balderhub.selenium.lib.setup_features import SeleniumChromeWebdriverFeature  # or any other WebDriver implementing feature
from lib.pages import MyPage


class SetupBase(balder.Setup):

    class Client(balder.Device):
        selenium = SeleniumChromeWebdriverFeature()
        page = MyPage()

Read more about the details in the Example Section.