Make exe file from python selenium tests

Question

I try to build my python selenium tests in exe file and run it on many machines for keeping tests independent of the environment. But result *.exe file can't find selenium webdriver. How can I include all selenium dependencies in *.exe file? Or maybe is there some another way for it? Is it possible to make virtual environment and distribute it?

Answer 1

I am assuming you are using py2exe for generating exe. You will need to specify the location of selenium webdriver in the setup.py file.

Following code should help:

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

# Change the path in the following line for webdriver.xpi
data_files = [('selenium/webdriver/firefox', ['D:/Python27/Lib/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.xpi'])]

setup(
    name='General name of app',
    version='1.0',
    description='General description of app',
    author='author name',
    author_email='author email',
    url='',
    windows=[{'script': 'abc.py'}],   # the main py file
    data_files=data_files,
    options={
        'py2exe':
            {
                'skip_archive': True,
                'optimize': 2,
            }
    }
)