Hi, I'm performing automation and using pytest with selenium and was wondering when would you want to use setUpModule() instead of setUpClass()?

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Hi, I’m performing automation and using pytest with selenium and was wondering when would you want to use setUpModule() instead of setUpClass()?

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Hi Helen,

If you want to initialize a database connection or something similar before running any tests in a module, then you would use setUpModule().

If you want to set up a class for testing purposes, then you would use setUpClass().