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

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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