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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...

Introduction to Selenium What is Selenium Tool? Selenium is a free (open-source) automated testing suite for web applications across different browsers and platforms. It is quite similar to HP Quick Test Pro (QTP) / HP Unified Functional Test (UFT) only that Selenium focuses on automating web-based applications. Selenium is not just a single tool; Selenium is a suite of software's , each component has its own advantages and disadvantages. Click here to know more about  Selenium birth picture &  Selenium components . What are the features of selenium automation tool? Ø Selenium is Free and open-source tool. Ø Automation of AJAX/CSS applications is easy. Ø Good cross browser testing tool. Ø Contains record and playback ( Selenium-IDE ) facility. Ø Best for GUI-intelligent field selection (uses IDs, names, or X-Paths as needed). Ø Auto-complete feature available in IDE for all common commands. Ø User-fr...