Introduction

Selenium IDE is an integrated development environment for Selenium test scripts. It’s an open source tool to record and playback web application tests on different browsers. The tool is available as a browser extension for popular web browsers like Firefox, Chrome and Edge browser.

Code-less Automation

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

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

Versions

Selenium IDE tool latest major version is 3.x. The latest version runs in more browsers not only in Firefox browser. The latest version runs on Chrome and Edge browser as well.

Older versions of Selenium IDE only ran on Firefox browser. Applitools added cross browser support to the tool to run on Firefox and Chrome browser.