#100DaysOfCode in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Days 73-75: Automate tasks with Selenium
Lecture: Hello world Selenium: search python.org
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Let's look at the Selenium hello world example.
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And let's look quickly what happens when I run this.
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And I have to move the browser into my recording area.
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I put the PyCon into the search box, hits return,
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looks at the results and makes an assertion.
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Now how cool is that, that it just opens a browser,
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does all this stuff automatically?
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And when you're dealing with web pages
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you probably want to inspect them so you can do that here,
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and you can look at the developer tools
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and here you see that input has a name of queue,
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so that's Selenium here is finding.
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Sending PyCon, hitting return and no results found
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should not be in the driver page source.
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So here to back to the results.
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Yes there are results for PyCon obviously.
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And the talk a lot about automating tasks,
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but one of the most common use cases is actually
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to automate your testing, go through your dev sites,
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filling out forms, looking and returns
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and automate that as part of your functional testing.
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So that's the hello world example of Selenium.
