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.