(WIP) Web Application testing in Python with Selenium

1. Set up your Python environments.

In most cases, when running Python code, the preferred approach is to set up a ‘virtual environment’. There are multiple ways to do this, with my preferred method being:

python3 -m venv ./venv
.\venv\Scripts\activate

You’ll know the virtual environment is set up and running when you a green ‘(venv)’ in front of your prompt.

pip install selenium

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

## Create an instance of WebDriver to interacte with a browser, in our case, Chrome.
service = Service(executable_path=r'chromedriver-win64\chromedriver.exe')
driver =  webdriver.Chrome(service=service)

## Choose a website to interact with, I've chosen this blog.
driver.get("https://jackjduggan.github.io/")

## Let's interact with the website by getting the title.
print(driver.title)

## Remember to close the browser after you're finished interacting with it!
driver.quit()

Written on September 9, 2024