Q:

Python Selenium Having to Change URL Variable On All of My Test Cases

I have 10+ test cases at the moment and planning on creating several more. That being said is there a way that I can modify the URL variable once and that would change the variable in all my other scripts? I have this in all my of test scripts:
class TestCase1(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
        self.driver.implicitly_wait(30)
        self.base_url = "http://URL"
        self.verificationErrors = []
        self.accept_next_alert = True

I want to be able to be able to modify self.base_url = http://URL. But I don't want to have to do that 10+ times.

A:

There are 2 good approaches to doing this,
1) Using a Configuration Manager, a singleton object that stores all your settings.
2) Using a basetest, a single base test that all your tests inherit from.
My preference is towards a Configuration Manager.  And within that configuration manager, you can put your logic for grabbing the base url form configuration files, system environments, command line params, etc...

