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While Selenium is primarily used for automating web applications for testing purposes, it’s actually intended for browser automation more generally. It's up to Selenium users to come up with creative applications of the automation framework.
The open-source Selenium framework is a widely used solution for automating tests of websites and web applications.
However, with the ability to automate any action that takes place in a browser, like clicking on buttons and typing text into fields, as the end-user would, the power of Selenium goes beyond web testing. Use cases of Selenium-powered automation include:
Think of all the repetitive web-based processes that take place in your organization each day, involving for example your marketing website, a CRM system, and a cloud-based project management tool. Now imagine you could train software robots to perform these tasks by visually designing the task flow.
With Leapwork’s codeless software automation, each action taking place in an application’s UI, are represented by building blocks you can connect to create visual workflows for automating web-based processes.
Consider an example in which the tester wants to automate search for an item (“star wars lego”) in an online shop (amazon.com) and then compare the number of search results with a specified value (2500).
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The automation flow (see Figure 1) is created by connecting just seven commands, or building blocks, representing actions in the web application’s UI:
Read the Leapwork guide to learn more about Selenium as a test automation solution and its benefits in testing. The guide also covers the skills, effort, and resources required to fully succeed with Selenium. Finally, it proposes a web automation solution you can use without having to worry about the technical details.
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