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How to Use Selenium to Simulate Manual Actions for Website Tests in Python
Learn basic website test automation in minutes
Selenium is a tool commonly used to automate website tests in the browser. You can simulate all kinds of manual actions with Selenium. In this post, we will introduce some manual actions that are commonly used in website tests or web scraping.
Preparation
We need to install Selenium and some dependencies before getting started. We should install the libraries in a virtual environment for best practice. It’s recommended to use conda for managing environments because we can install a specific version of Python in each environment.
In order to use the latest version of Selenium, it’s best to use the latest version of Python as well. We will also install the iPython library to run interactive Python code more conveniently. You can copy and paste the Python code shown below in iPython to see the results.
