Introduction
Selenium IDE Tool is an open source record and playback tool for Web application testing. It is available as a Mozilla Firefox /Google Chrome browser plugin. IDE in the name stands for Integrated Development Environment. It allows us to record, edit, and debug the test actions on the website. We can record and playback the interactions with the browser using it. Selenium IDE interacts with DOM using JavaScript calls.
Installing the plugin
Search for Selenium IDE download on your favorite search engine.
or download from the below URL:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/selenium-ide/
Browse the search results and click on the Mozilla add-on link in the search results.
On the plugin page, click on the “Add to Firefox” button.
Click on the Install button in the Firefox browser prompt.
The plugin requires the restart of the Firefox browser to complete the installation. So, restart the browser to complete the installation of the plugin.
Selenium IDE includes the entire Selenium Core, allowing you to easily and quickly record and playback tests. Selenium core is a JavaScript module that allows Selenium to drive the browser.
Using this tool, we can create simple scripts to assist in developing Selenium and WebDriver scripts. This add-on has been marked as experimental by its developers. Tests recorded using the plugin tend to be brittle and should not replace programming tests.
Features of Selenium IDE Tool
https://www.testingdocs.com/questions/what-are-the-features-of-selenium-ide/
More Info
To learn more about the add-on, please visit the project homepage:
http://www.seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/
Selenium IDE release notes can be found on GitHub at:
https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/SeIDEReleaseNotes