Installing Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE:

Selenium IDE is a Firefox plugin which records and plays back user interactions with the browser. Use this to either create simple scripts or assist in exploratory testing.

The Selenium IDE is an excellent starting point to start using and learning Selenium. For that lets first add Selenium IDE in Firefox.

Install add-on:

• Launch Firefox
• Open URL to add Selenium IDE http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/
• Section “Selenium IDE” > click on latest released version

• A popup appears to ask your permission to install this add-on > click Allow

• Install the add-on and restart the Firefox.

• Once you have it installed, launch Selenium IDE by navigating to Tools -> Selenium IDE (Ctrl + Alt + S keyboard shortcut)

• Launch Selenium IDE:

Selenium IDE overview:

1. Base URL: Application URL that we want to automate using Selenium
2. Actions:  Right under the Base URL field, we have the some action icons:
• Play entire test suite
• Play current test case
• Pause /resume
• Fast/Slow slider - to play script with desired speed
• Start /Stop recording button etc.
3. Table /Source – Here is where our script’s functionality will appear/live as we create it. We can also modify our scripts if required and can view the code from ‘Source’ tab.