removed selenium dependency in favor of requests

.github/workflows/cicd.yml

@@ -16,10 +16,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Install Chrome dependencies
-        run: |
-          sudo apt-get install -y wget libnss3 libnspr4 libfontconfig1 libexpat1
-
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:

requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
-selenium
+requests
 pytest
 pytest-cov
+beautifulsoup4

tests/test_render_service.py

@@ -1,28 +1,12 @@
 # Tests if the render service is working properly.
 
-from selenium import webdriver
-from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
-import time
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
 
 TITLE_GOAL = "What-Flix"
-TITLE_LOADING = "Render - Application loading"
+RENDER_URL = "https://what-flix.onrender.com/"
 
 def test_render_service():
-  # This allows the selenium driver to work on Ubuntu
-  chrome_options = Options()
-  chrome_options.add_argument("--headless=new")
-  chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
-  chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
-
-  driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
-  driver.get("https://what-flix.onrender.com/")
-
-  if driver.title == TITLE_GOAL:
-    assert True
-  elif driver.title == TITLE_LOADING:
-    print("\nRender application was asleep due to inactivity. Waiting 60 seconds then trying again.")
-    time.sleep(60)
-    driver.get("https://what-flix.onrender.com/")
-    assert driver.title == TITLE_GOAL, f"Webpage title \"{driver.title}\" does not match TITLE_GOAL of \"{TITLE_GOAL}\"."
-  else:
-    assert False, f"Webpage title \"{driver.title}\" does not match TITLE_GOAL of \"{TITLE_GOAL}\" or TITLE_LOADING of \"{TITLE_LOADING}\"."
+  soup = bs(requests.get(RENDER_URL).text, 'html.parser')
+
+  assert f"<title>{TITLE_GOAL}</title>" == str(soup.find_all('title')[0])