Overview

Selenium Side Runner is a command line test runner to run tests recorded with Selenium IDE tool. We can use this tool to run the recorded tests from the Selenium IDE project.

Prerequisites

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime that is built on Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine.

Steps to download and install Node.js on Windows 10 operating system.

https://www.testingdocs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-on-windows/

Install

Install the tool. Launch command prompt and issue the following command.

\> npm install -g selenium-side-runner

Install Drivers

Install browser drivers for cross browser testing.  For example, to install Chrome driver.

\> npm install -g chromedriver

Additionally, we can install other browser drivers. For example, command to install driver for Firefox browser.

Run Tests

To run the tests from the command line using the tool. Launch command prompt and issue the following command. Specify the Project file with out the angle brackets.

\> selenium-side-runner <<path to the Selenium IDE Project.side>>

 

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Selenium IDE Tutorial page:

https://www.testingdocs.com/selenium-ide-tutorials/

For More information on Selenium IDE:

https://www.selenium.dev/selenium-ide/