Selenium Webdriver for Automating Web Application Testing (Part 1)

Selenium Webdriver is an open source tool to automate web application. It can be coded in multiple languages — Python, Java, Javascript, C#, Ruby and etc.

In this tutorial, we will use Python as the programming language.

Part 1: Selenium Installation
Part 2: Writing Testcases

Pre-requisite: Ensure either pip or pip3 is installed

Installation on MacOs

1. Download Python bindings for Selenium
   - run “pip install selenium” or “pip3 install selenium” in terminal depending on your python version
2. Install driver (for firefox)
   Selenium requires a driver to interface with the chosen browser. For example, Firefox requires geckodriver to be installed.
   - run “brew install geckodriver” in terminal
3. Testing
   - write the following python script to test if installation works
   - execute the python script

Installation on Windows

1. Download Python bindings for Selenium
   - run “pip install selenium” or “pip3 install selenium” in terminal depending on your python version
2. Download driver and locate to your preferred location (eg: C:\Program File (x86))
   - Chrome:
   https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads
   - Firefox:
   https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
   - Safari:
   https://webkit.org/blog/6900/webdriver-support-in-safari-10/
   - Edge:
   https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/
3. Testing
   - write the following python script to test if installation works
   - execute the python script

Tadaaaa! I believe by now you have got Solenium installation done.