Have you ever wanted to create end to end tests for your app, but just can't find the time to get those tests working. Well, I have tried several frameworks from Cypress, to Selenium. I have always felt like this technology ought to be made simple. Just recently after taking another look at Selenium, I found the IDE to be very easy to use in order to quickly create scripts that could be improved by hand later. Here is a very simple example.

First I installed the Chrome Selenium extension.

https://docs.seleniumhq.org/selenium-ide/

I created a simple test using the record button and exported it as a Python test.

Then I installed the Python Webdriver using 

 
apt-get -y install python3.6
apt-get -y install python3-pip
pip3 selenium

Next I installed the chromedriver and I used NPM

 
npm install chromedriver

Now make sure you have Chrome installed. I used Headless on my server.

I may have added source first

 
apt-get -y install google-chrome-stable

Then I ran the following script with this command.

 
chmod 777 test.py
./test.py

 
#! /usr/bin/python3.6
import os  
from selenium import webdriver  
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys  
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options  
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

chrome_options = Options()  
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")  
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
chrome_options.binary_location = '/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable'    

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=os.path.abspath("node_modules/chromedriver/bin/chromedriver"),   chrome_options=chrome_options)  
driver.get("http://www.jonclawson.com/")
driver.set_window_size(1280, 740)
driver.find_element(By.LINK_TEXT, "who").click()
assert driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".title").text == "my name is jon"
text = driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, ".title").text == "my name is jon"
print(text)
print('success')  
driver.close()