Your first automation script

10 min · Module 6

A minimal Selenium script usually follows four steps:

Create a WebDriver instance.
Navigate to a page.
Find an element and interact with it.
Quit the browser so processes do not linger.

Always call driver.quit() in a finally block or use a context manager pattern in tests.

Example / notes

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
try:
    driver.get("http://127.0.0.1:8000/lab/")
    heading = driver.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, "h1")
    assert "Practice" in heading.text or heading.text
    print("Opened lab hub:", heading.text)
finally:
    driver.quit()

Practice in Lab: /lab/

← Install Selenium and WebDriver

Modules in this track

6. Getting Started
- Install Selenium and WebDriver
- Your first automation script
7. Finding Elements
- Locators: ID, CSS, and XPath
- find_element vs find_elements
8. Interactions
- Typing and clicking
- Selects and checkboxes
9. Waits
- Explicit waits with WebDriverWait
10. Assertions & Structure
- Assertions that catch regressions
- Organizing tests with pytest
11. Page Object Model
- Intro to Page Objects
12. Alerts, Frames & Windows
- Handling JavaScript alerts
- Windows and iframes
13. Headless & Next Steps
- Headless Chrome and CI tips