I'm always interested in clever use cases for Selenium.
It seems like "automating boring stuff using Selenium" should be a bigger category than it is - and use cases that can do it profitably are always fascinating.
RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is a big category of tools that can be summarised as ‘automating boring stuff’. You often see it used for repetitive data entry, e.g.
1. Load excel sheet from X:\...
2. Login to Y
3. For each row navigate to ... then enter data
4. Submit, if there’s a validation error add it to and excel workbook
Uipath and automation anywhere seem to be big players with community/free starter editions. PWC (who are spearheading the RPA at $work) seem to have decreed that all their staff are going to use uipath worldwide.
There are a handful of open source RPA tools, but I don’t think there’s a breakthrough project yet.
Chromedriver used to support three major releases of Chrome at a time, now it supports one: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads This means all selenium scripts break every two months.
It seems like "automating boring stuff using Selenium" should be a bigger category than it is - and use cases that can do it profitably are always fascinating.