While preparing the code samples to record videos of my test runs, I run into a severe problem: Selenium Grid cannot do what I need it to do - at least not with the approach I had so far. Let's regroup and switch the way we create the Selenium Grid.
One of the greatest benefits of Selenium Grid is to run Selenium against multiple browsers. This can be multiple instances of one web browser that we run in parallel, or browsers from different vendors. Let's see how we can configure a flexible solution without much effort.
Sometimes it would be great to have a web browser in a specific version. Installing that on your machine may not be possible, but that is exactly the problem we can use dev containers for. Let’s look how Selenium and Docker can help us to get more flexibility (and additional features).
Selenium is great to automate repetitive task in a web browser. We can take that concept one step further and use it to create end-to-end tests for web applications. Today we look at an approach to keep the initialisation code for Selenium in one place and use it in as many tests as we need.
The Jetpack extension of WordPress.com uses a lot of JavaScript to work. With Selenium we do not have to bother about that and let our web browser deal with it. This allows us to grab the statistics Jetpack collects for this site.
Last week we covered the basic parts to automate our browser with Selenium. If you try that with real web pages, you quickly notice that they are often not enough. In this post we look at few helpful tricks to make your Selenium automation more robust.
With Selenium ready and a solution in place to download drivers with ease, we now can start with the interesting part and automate our browser.
Downloading drivers for Selenium is annoying. We need to find the right driver for the specific browser version that runs on our computer. Luckily for us, there is a project that can do this work for us.
The more JavaScript a web site has, the more makes it sense to access it with a web browser. Over the next weeks we explore how Selenium can help us to automate a web browser to get the data from a web page we are interested in.
We must renew TLS/SSL certificates before they reach their end of life. Otherwise, our users get an unfriendly message about an unsecure web page. Why not write a Python script that checks our sites and shows how many days are remaining for our certificates?