Getting Started With Selenium

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Selenium is a free and open-source browser automation library used by millions of people for testing purposes and to automate repetitive web-based administrative tasks.

It is also the core technology in countless other automation tools, APIs, and frameworks used to automate application testing.

Selenium language bindings allow you to write tests and communicate with browsers in multiple languages: In order to start writing tests, you first need to install the bindings for your preferred programming language.

You will need the Java Development Kit (version 8+ for 3.x and 4.x versions of Selenium) and Maven installed on your machine.

Use the command below to install the Python bindings for Selenium: You will need to install Python, pip, and setuptools in order for this to work properly.

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