Selenium is a very classic tool for QA and it can help perform automatic checks on a website. This is an intro of how to use it:

The first step is, as always, to install and load the RSelenium package

We’ll launch a selenium server with a Firefox browser in a controlled mode.

It will take quite some time the first time but after it will load in a few seconds.

here is the command:

At the end of the process, it should open a firefox window like this one

Then we’ll grab the instance to be able to control our browser

It’s now possible to send action to our browser. 
To open a website URL just type

You will notice the robot head icon which means that it is a remote-controlled browser

Here are some useful commands:


When you are done with it, don’t forget to 

Otherwise, it’s gonna be a mess when you’ll get back on it

Why Selenium is a very interesting solution?

One of the great advantages of using Selenium is that you can alternate automatic and manual actions in the same session.

For example, you can log on somewhere and run an automatic script after pretty easily or… fill in a captcha and run your script.

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