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Once a wise man said, “Enjoy the journey because the destination is a mirage”. And in our journey of web automation testing, it will be divided by many episodes. And in our journey, we will use python and selenium to fight the battle together. In this episode, we will get our gears, set the environments, and forge our weapons. And in every episode, we will learn new features of selenium. By the end of this journey, we will complete an automation testing of a web application. We will make a complete automation testing project in a modular way using object-oriented programming. Be strong. Be brave and be patient.<\/p>\n

What is Web Automation?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Imagine a Quality Assurance is checking a login feature of a web application by typing email and password by his\/her own hands and submitting the login button. Again and again. Checking if the logo is all right in the login page and it’s redirecting to the dashboard. Not that difficult right?<\/p>\n

But imagine a feature that requires multiple forms to submit and each form has many input fields. Can he\/she do that again and again? Well, It is humanly possible but in the software industry should we really do that? Wasting a huge amount of time where time is money? The answer is no. Here comes the term called web automation.<\/p>\n

In web automation, by writing scripts we can automate those human interactions in a web application. Clicking a menu in the navbar, submitting a form, going to a link can be automated by that script.<\/p>\n

Impact of web automation in a QA’s work and personal life<\/h3>\n

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Do you remember the character Wonder Women from the DC universe? Let’s imagine her as a QA in a software company. Her daily job is to test all the features of a web application called “Call Your Super Hero”. She is clicking buttons, submitting forms approving things from the admin panel, uploading images, calculating numbers from transactions all day long. She has been doing that for months. Her days are getting dull. Doing the same boring tasks every day. Losing creativity. Lost the way of thinking out of the box.<\/p>\n

Then one day she realized that she needs some changes in her life. She immediately called General Steven Rockwell Trevor, who was her boyfriend and a software engineer in another parallel DC universe. She was crying for her recent life. Then General Steven Rockwell Trevor gave her a wonderful solution. He told her to learn web automation using selenium with python.<\/p>\n

Then after learning python and selenium, she started to automate her every day’s boring tasks. And guess what she is doing all day now? Dating General Steven Rockwell Trevor and enjoying all the river views, green fields. Enjoying Starbucks coffee. Netflix movies. Developers of her company now pushing new features every week and she is writing scripts for automated tests for 2\/3 days and enjoying the rest of the week and weekend by doing awesome things.<\/p>\n

Well, General Steven Rockwell Trevor got fired for dating all day and for not completing his tasks. but that’s okay. Web automation wins!<\/p>\n

Awesome, What do I need to do that?<\/h4>\n