Browser Automation with Python and Selenium — 0: Introduction

To automate or not to automate?

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We are living in a world that wants more things from us day by day, but gives the same amount of time — 24 hours/day.

People invented machines to delegate some of the jobs to them to get faster, more efficient, and more accurate results without the risk of affected by emotions. With the fast evolution of technology, automation takes up more space in our lives. Today many more tools can be controlled remotely easier than ever before with the developments in software technology and the internet.

In these long series of posts, we will explore the web browser automation with Selenium framework and Python language with working, complete examples.

Selenium project provides tools and libraries to automate web browsers.

It enables to

• Perform any actions that a real user can do on a web page like entering text, checking boxes, clicking links, taking screenshots, and more.
• Write interchangeable code for all commonly used web browsers that implement the WebDriver Specification by abstracting the differences of the way of doing something in different web browsers.
• Run tests on multiple browsers and operating system…