Selenium- How to Automate web browser

• What is selenium?

  Selenium is an open source tool that automates browsers. Selenium webdriver is one of the top web automation testing tool. it provides a single interface that let you write test scripts in programming languages.

• Main features of selenium web drivers are:-

  • Open source
  • Cross-platform
  • Automates all major browsers like Chrome, Internet explorer, Microsoft edge, Firefox, Safari, Opera
  • We can write the tests in various languages like Java, Python, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, Perl, C# and many more
  • Runs on JSON webdriver protocols over HTTP

• Installing Selenium Weebdriver Package for Node.js

  1. First install Node.js from the official website

  2. Install selenium webdriver for node.js

     npm install selenium-webdriver
     

• Writing and running the first script in node.js

  write the sample selenium code as shown in the below example and save it with first.js

    const webdriver = require("selenium-webdriver");
  
      // Declare driver and open web browser
    var driver = new webdriver.Builder().forBrowser('chrome').build();
  
    // it will open the URL which is passed as an argument
    driver.get('https://www.softpost.org');
    // here driver will stop and close the browser window
    driver.quit();
  

• After that you can run the above node.js code using the below command

        node first.js
  

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