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How To Add A Typing Effect to Selenium Test Execution
Add coolness to live demonstration with automation assistance.
Non-Medium members: You can read this article for free on Substack. Additionally, that version includes an extra section featuring a valuable automated scripting tip from my father, available exclusively to paid members.
What is the Typing Effect, and what is its purpose? Watch these two short videos (animated GIF): executing a script in TestWise to sign up for WhenWise.
- Without Typing Effect (1.5 seconds)
2. With Typing Effect (4.5 seconds)
The typing version is slower.
Some might wonder “Why do you want automated test execution to be slower?”. It really depends on the use case. For an automated E2E test script, of course, the faster the better. But this is an automation script for customer demonstration — showing the typing effect (and making it slower and easier to follow) is actually better.
To achieve the typing effect in raw Selenium WebDriver (here using the Ruby language binding as example) is quite simple.
