Merge branch 'Alpha-snapshot20230621' into Bug544-TangXinyuan

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README.md

@@ -146,10 +146,12 @@ Install the following dependencies too:
 - pip install -U selenium==3.141.0
 - pip install -U urllib3==1.26.2
 
-Run the test using pytest as follows: pytest --html=pytest_report.html test_add_word.py
+Run English Pal first, then run the test using pytest as follows: pytest --html=pytest_report.html test_add_word.py
 
 The above command will generate a HTML report file pytest_report.html after finishing executing test_add_word.py.  Note: you need to install pytest-html package first: pip install pytest-html.
 
+You may also want to use [webdriver-manager](https://pypi.org/project/webdriver-manager/) from PyPI, so that you can avoid tediously installing a web driver executable manually.  However, my experience shows that webdriver-manager is too slow.  For example, it took me 16 minutes to run 9 tests, while with the pre-installed web driver executable, it took less than 2 minutes.
+
 ## TODO
 
 

app/test/conftest.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import pytest
 import sqlite3
 import time
 from selenium import webdriver
+
 from pathlib import Path
 
 @pytest.fixture
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ def URL():
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def driver():
-    return webdriver.Edge()  # uncomment this line if you wish to run the test on your laptop
+    return webdriver.Edge()  # follow the "End-to-end testing" section in README.md to install the web driver executable
 
 
 @pytest.fixture