UPDATE 2018-04-27: Of course not even a week after I posted this, I've made yet another tweak -- see the Bonus section at the end of the entry for more details.

I figured it was time for a follow-up to my previous entries on MPD that describes the current state of my setup with all of its evolutions. Here we go!

Updated 2018-04-09 - check out the end of this entry to see how I solved chrome driver instability!

It's great to have unit tests in any piece of software, but for web applications they aren't enough to ensure funcitonality. To fully ensure things work, you need to actually open each page in a web browser and use it, which is of course something that's not even remotely doable by hand. Selenium allows you to automate the process of using your web application in a real browser, and it has a fantastic Python library that's easy to integrate into a Django project. With a good suite of Selenium tests, you could have full confidence that your application fully works without manually using any part of it yourself. Join me as I discuss adding Selenium tests to a Django project that are ran both locally and in a CI environment on a headless server.

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