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Selenium Foundation Program - Introduction to Selenium-IDE

Introduction to Selenium-IDE:

Selenium integrated development environment (Selenium-IDE) is a software automation testing tool used to automate web based applications. Selenium-IDE is one of the simplest and easiest tools that are released as a Firefox plug-in. This tool is simply a record and playback plug-in that allows recording the test scripts.

The advantage of Selenium-IDE is that the user is not required to have any prior programming knowledge to record the script. But user should have basic knowledge in understanding HTML, DOMS and JavaScript to create test scripts using this tool.

Selenium-IDE supports only Firefox, and all scripts created will be executed only in Firefox browser being a Firefox plug-in, Selenium-IDE supports only Firefox, thus the created test scripts could be executed only on Firefox. Because of few limitations in automating complex test scripts we have other tools like Selenium-RC and Selenium Web-Driver in Selenium suit which can easily automate those complex tasks.

So, before going into the details of Selenium-IDE, let’s look "How to install Selenium-IDE?"

Birth of Selenium-IDE:


Shinya Kasatani of Japan created Selenium-IDE, a Firefox extension that can automate the browser through a record-and-playback feature. He came up with this idea to further increase the speed in creating test cases. He donated Selenium-IDE to the Selenium Project in 2006.



Benefits of Selenium-IDE:

Ø Very easy to install and use
Ø No programming experience is required
Ø Has built-in help feature and it shows the documentation on the selected or entered command
Ø Helps in debugging by displaying the information and error messages
Ø It allows us to set breakpoints, insert commands and comments wherever necessary
Ø Provides a good support for extensions
Ø Helps in exporting tests that can be executed in Selenium-RC and Selenium Web-Driver

Limitations of Selenium-IDE:

Ø As it comes as a Firefox plug-in, it doesn’t support any browser other than Mozilla Firefox
Ø It doesn’t explicitly provide help to support alerts, pop-ups and navigations
Ø It doesn’t support listeners
Ø No support for error handling and database testing
Ø It cannot be used in the testing of i-Phone and Android applications
Ø Reading from external files and uploading files is not supported
Ø No support for iterations and conditional operations


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