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Today, software testing is already an integral part of every software development cycle. However, even this does not guarantee that the final product will be free of software bugs. Testing needs to be implemented from the lowest possible stage of development so that the bugs can be detected as early as possible to reduce the cost of fixing them at later stages. However, this is hampered by the ever-increasing demands for software from customers, increasing testing requirements to the point where it is impossible to meet them all. This is why automated software testing is becoming increasingly popular. Automated test scripts can partially replace manual user testing and help significantly improve the quality of the software. Automated testing using the Selenium framework is the focus of this paper. The functionality and process of testing in Selenium are demonstrated with five testing scripts in a sample scenario.
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The research has been supported by the Faculty of Informatics and Management UHK specific research project 2107 Integration of Departmental Research Activities and Students’ Research Activities Support II. Special thanks to our colleague Adam Kučera for his significant help in the practical verification of the tests.
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Horalek, J., Urbanik, P., Sobeslav, V. (2023). Automated Tests Using Selenium Framework. In: Phan, C.V., Nguyen, T.D. (eds) Nature of Computation and Communication. ICTCC 2022. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 473. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28790-9_3
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