Write Your First Automation Script In Just 20 Mins!

What Is The Need For Automation?

A first Selenium script for Firefox comes together in about 20 minutes, using Python's webdriver module to open myntra.com with a 30 second page load timeout and find the search bar by its desktop-searchBar class name. After typing watch and clicking submit, it waits up to 10 seconds for the results panel and saves a screenshot called loggedIn.png.

How do I write my first UI test?

One love for Selenium! Isn’t it ?

Since, Selenium is an open source testing tool it serves the need for cost-effective automation testing and the community always support the cost effective tool with required features. It’s capability to operate on almost every OS and multiple language support i.e. Pearl, PHP,Python, Java, .NET(C#) and Ruby provides the flexibility that every user wants. The language which is mostly used for building the program is independent of the language that is being used by the web application or website. Which implies that you can develop the test script in any of the mentioned languages that the Selenium supports.

You can also hasten your Selenium script generation by using AI test assistants like KaneAI.

KaneAI by TestMu AI is a GenAI Native QA Agent-as-a-Service platform crafted for quality engineering teams. It offers AI-driven features for test authoring, management, and debugging. With KaneAI, users can effortlessly create and modify complex test cases using natural language, making it faster and easier to start with test automation without needing deep technical expertise.

You can quickly generate your Selenium automation script by simply describing your testing needs in natural language. KaneAI effortlessly converts your instructions into a functional script, cutting down the time and complexity typically involved in getting started.

There are several ways to quickly start GUI testing automation using Selenium. Let’s do it using python.

Pre-Req : We need python and selenium binding to be installed in the machine. If you don’t have already , follow the below steps.

• Download and install Python :-
• MAC: https://www.python.org/downloads/mac-osx/
• Linux: https://www.python.org/downloads/source/
• Windows: https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/

Command to check python version using command line :- python –version

• Install selenium libraries for python. [

http://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/installation.html ]

command:- pip install selenium

• Install geckodriver

Selenium 4 is the current major version, and geckodriver still bridges it to Firefox the same way. Download geckodriver :- https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

OR Install using command line ( using brew ):- brew install geckodriver

We are all set to write our first test!  Let’s search for an item in myntra.com

Code [ Self Explanatory]:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from random import randint

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.set_page_load_timeout(30)

browser.get('https://www.myntra.com/')
assert "Online Shopping" in browser.title

search = browser.find_element_by_class_name("desktop-searchBar")  # Find the search box by class
search.send_keys("watch") #send the value of search field

submit_button = browser.find_element_by_class_name("desktop-submit")
submit_button.click()
#Lets wait for lobby page to load
delay = 10 # seconds max wait
myElem = WebDriverWait(browser, delay).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, "horizontal-filters-title")))
browser.save_screenshot("loggedIn.png") ## This will be stored in the location/path mentioned or the current directory
browser.close() # close browser

Tips:- Locate selenium elements for python – http://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/locating-elements.html

The below glimpse of Selenium Advanced certification is ideal for testing professionals who want to acquire advanced, hands-on knowledge in Selenium automation testing.

Can AI Fix a Broken Selenium Locator Like desktop-searchBar Automatically?

Not inside Selenium itself. Selenium 4 has no built-in self-healing, so a renamed class such as desktop-searchBar still breaks the script above until a person edits the locator and reruns it.

AI-augmented test platforms close that gap by re-resolving a locator from the surrounding page structure instead of failing outright. The healer agent in Playwright Test Agents runs a failing test, repairs the broken locator, and returns a passing test or a skipped test when it judges the underlying feature broken, not the locator. This matters most inside a cross browser testing matrix, where the same locator has to survive on every browser, not just one.

Selenium itself gets no such repair automatically. A locator change on myntra.com, such as desktop-searchBar becoming search-bar-desktop, still needs a person to edit this code and rerun it every time the site changes, a real cost inside a regression testing suite where the same script runs unchanged for months.

A more resilient script also tries a second locator, such as an id or a data attribute, before it gives up, so the same class rename does not need an AI copilot at all.