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Sign upIn this course, 0:00 we are going to explore the wonderful world of web browser automation. 0:01 If you don't know what that means yet, you are in the right place. 0:05 We'll start from the very beginning and work our way into a hands-on specific use 0:07 case using a powerful automation framework known as Selenium. 0:11 Software development is a process and it has a life cycle. 0:16 Writing code is only one part of that. 0:18 In order to successfully release software to users, 0:20 it really ought to be thoroughly tested. 0:23 Now this helps not only to ensure that it's working as it is intended, but 0:25 also helps your users avoid unnecessary errors. 0:29 Users really don't like bugs, so you need to make sure that they don't see them. 0:33 So do you just manually test all the interactions, on all browsers, 0:38 on all operating systems? 0:41 That seems boring and incredibly tedious. 0:43 Well, here's the good news. 0:46 You can actually write code that will go and do all the clicking and filling out 0:47 the form fields and all the permutations for you and have it report back. 0:51 Computers don't get bored by the tedious tasks. 0:56 And I think you'll see that writing this automation code is actually pretty fun. 0:58 It's a win-win. 1:02 Yeah, and you can use this automation code in your testing framework so 1:03 your app can be fully tested in all those permutations. 1:06 That's yet another win. 1:09 So are you ready to start winning? 1:11 There are a bunch of automation tools, but Selenium is definitely one of the most 1:12 popular ones out there, and it's been around for a long time. 1:16 Let's get started. 1:19
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