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Selenium IDE - Integrated Development Environment

Selenium IDE is an easy-use tool for any person and which is designed to work with Firefox. It is a Firefox plugin with with graphical user interface. This  GUI will allow user to record test actions and replay. But this can be used only with Firefox browser as other browsers. However the recorded test scripts can be converted in to any languages supported by selenium.

Set Up Environment (use Firefox browser)

Go to URL- http://seleniumhq.org/download/ and download latest selenium IDE version. It will add as a add-on. After that go to tool of the browser and check whether selenium has been added.



Selenium IDE GUI Features



First Test Creation 

Following steps are involved in creation,
  • Record test (adding commands). 
  • Saving recorded tests.
  • Executing recorded tests.
Launch the Firefox browser and go to www.Google.com. Then open selenium interface press on record button which is able to see at the top-right corner.

Type selenium test on the search box and click on search button, Then will able to see following test scripts. 




Like above user able to create many test cases and set of test cases identified as test suit. That can be save with .htm, .shtml and .xhtml extensions. 

Later user able to run those saved test cases one by one or entire test suit. 


Single Test case : Select test case to be run and hit on play current test case button ()
Entire test suit    : Hit on play entire test suit button ()


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