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Electron (formerly Atom Shell) is a very new way to quickly create javascript applications for multiple platforms. Not a lot of documentation exists about using Selenium to do full-fledged integration testing on Electron Applications. And even less exists about performing such tests in python. This brief tutorial should answer a few questions about Electron Applications and show you how to get started using Selenium to test them. I. Getting started Install and start chromedriver Selenium need this to be able to make calls to the Electron App. Chromedriver acts as a bridge between Selenium and Chrome, it follows Selenium wire protocol. By default, chromium runs on port 9515, you can start on alternate ports, but remember the assigned port this will be passed as an argument to Selenium later. ./chromedriver --port=9515 Install Selenium You'll need to use Selenium's remotewebdriver to interface with chromedriver. Im using a python virtualenv to keep all my python plugi