Basic Browser Automation - Part 1 of 3 (To automate or not to automate..)
Every statistic points to the known fact that, " We Now Spend More Time on Apps Than PCs ". This may not hold good for those of us who spend most of our day at work. Just like yours, my typical work day ranges between 12 - 14 hours, and a major chunk of that time is spent on a PC navigating business applications on a browser. Firefox (ESR for IBM) is what I prefer. The kind of work I do requires that I perform a specific sequence of steps multiple times in an hour. The first couple of steps are the same but the rest change depending on what I am trying to achieve. Those of us who encounter such scenarios when using Excel, turn to Macros. The time invested in recording or writing these macros is a fraction of what we save using them. So why don't we write browser macros? Or was it that everyone else was doing it and I was too late in the game? So I decided to speak to some of my co-workers who are big on efficiency through automation . What I found was not surpri