What is Automation Testing?
Before diving into the tools of testing we should know what Automation Testing is, Automation Testing is a software testing technique that uses automated tools and scripts to execute test cases instead of performing them manually. The main goal is to increase efficiency, coverage, and accuracy in the testing process.
Here are some automation testing tools listed below
- Selenium
- Winrunner
- Silk Test
- TestComplete
- Tricentis Tosca
- NUnit
- Cucumber
What is Selenium?
Selenium is an open-source automated testing framework used to test and validate web application across different platforms and browsers. It allows testers to simulate user interaction with web browsers like clicking buttons, filling out forms, navigating web pages etc.
Selenium supports many programming languages, for example
- Python
- Java
- C#
- Ruby
- JavaScript
- R
Selenium can be integrated with test frameworks like PyTest, UnitTest and TestNG and testing tools like Jenkins, Maven, Docker, etc for CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/Deployment).
Why do we use Selenium?
We widely use Selenium because of following advantages
- Browser Automation – As Selenium is designed to use in web testing it is very easy to automate tasks like form submission, login automation.
- Cross browser testing – Selenium is easy to use to test in cross browsers i.e. Supports Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge
- Language Simplicity – Works with many languages like Java, C# etc. But Python is very popular due to its simplicity.
- Open Source – Selenium is OpnSource, so it is free to use with active community support.
- Integration Support – Works well with tools like Jenkins, Allure, Git, etc .
- Supports Parallel Testing – Using tools like Selenium Grid for distributed testing.
Relevance of Selenium in automation testing using Python
Feature Description
| Feature | Description |
| Ease of Use | Python’s simple syntax makes writing and maintaining test scripts easier |
| Robust Libraries | Python has powerful libraries like unittest, pytest, and pandas for testing and data handling. |
| Rapid Development | Faster to develop automation scripts in Python that in other languages like Java. |
| Community Support | As Python is open source Community supports are received frequently. In other words Strong community and frequent updates are available for Selenium and Python. |
| Test Automation Frameworks | Easily integrates with frameworks like Robot framework, PyTest and Behave. |
Simple Python Selenium scripts below for more understanding
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
<!--Set up the browser driver (e.g., Chrome)-->
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
<!--Open a website-->
driver.get("https://example.com")
<!--Interact with an element (click a link)-->
driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "More information...").click()
<!--Close the browser-->
driver.quit()`
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Gotta love Selenium 🙌