Set config.backend in pytest_configure()

For now this just serves the purpose of making the information available
to the pytest_report_header() hook, where we want to report, which
backend is used when running tests.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index 40631af34..c00fcf6bf 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -219,6 +219,16 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser):
 
 
 def pytest_configure(config):
+    try:
+        # Try to use QtWebkit as the default backend
+        import PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets
+        config.backend = 'webkit'
+    except ImportError:
+        # Try to use QtWebEngine as a fallback and fail early
+        # if that's also not available
+        import PyQt5.QtWebEngineWidgets
+        config.backend = 'webengine'
+
     webengine_arg = config.getoption('--qute-bdd-webengine')
     webengine_env = os.environ.get('QUTE_BDD_WEBENGINE', 'false')
     config.webengine = webengine_arg or webengine_env == 'true'