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Posted by Caleb King
Caleb King
32,777 Points

Selenium WebDriver help

Anybody know somewhere to learn more about automation.

1 Answer

Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points
Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points

I have worked a little with it in Python which has excellent documentation here.

I can write a basic script in it to browse and test a website but that is the extent of my knowledge using that library.

Why are you using it and in which language?

Goodluck! --Ricky

Caleb King
Caleb King
32,777 Points

Ricky Catron Thanks for the response. We use selenium for testing automation. When we run our BDD test, we have the entire work flow pop up in a browser(using selenium) to see if app completes all expected functionality.

The project I work on uses, Java, Javascript, Maven as our build tool, Jenkins as a test suite. I'm trying to figure out exactly what selenium does for us without asking 100 co-workers questions on stuff I should know. :-D

Ricky Catron
Ricky Catron
13,023 Points

It looks like what your testing is can Selenium replicate what a user on the site would do. Say you wanted to test buying an item, write a Selenium program to go through and buy the item, watch as it works to make sure the experience is correct and everything works as expected, catch and log any errors. Then test how to incorrectly buy something, is a notification of the error given? Does the user know what they did wrong? Can they recover?

It is the easy and technological way of calling Grandma and asking her to test your website. If Grandma can do it it must work pretty well.

Goodluck! --Ricky