Selenium IDE Introduction

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Selenium IDE Introduction

Selenium IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a browser extension designed for web application testing. It provides a user-friendly interface for recording, editing, and replaying test cases, making it accessible for testers with minimal programming knowledge.

It’s an open-source tool for recording and playing back web application tests on different browsers. The tool is available as a browser extension for popular browsers like Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.

Code-less Automation

The best thing about Selenium IDE is that it’s a codeless automation tool. Selenium IDE helps Testers with/without coding knowledge build effective automation test scripts quickly.

Testers can record and play back the tests. We can edit and debug tests, organize them into test suites, and later playback them to avoid repetitive manual web test runs. Also, Selenium IDE includes the entire Selenium Core.

Selenium IDE Introduction

Versions

The latest major version of the Selenium IDE tool is 3.x. It also runs on Chrome and Edge browsers.

Older versions of Selenium IDE only ran on the Firefox browser. Applitools added cross-browser support to the tool so that it could run on Firefox and Chrome browsers.

Features

Recording and Playback: Capture user interactions with a web application to automatically generate test scripts, which can be replayed to verify functionality.

Script Editing: Modify and enhance recorded tests using an intuitive editor, allowing for the addition of commands, assertions, and custom steps.

Export Options: Export test scripts to multiple programming languages, such as Java, Python, and JavaScript, for further customization and integration.

Browser Support: Compatible with major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, for cross-browser testing.

Data-Driven Testing: Utilize external data sources to run tests with various input data, improving test coverage.