How to learn Selenium IDE?

What is the difference between Selenium and Selenium IDE?

This is a question that I have been asked many times and yet there isn't a clear answer to.

Selenium is the real test suite and IDE is just a testing harness for writing tests. What is the difference?

From the Selenium FASelenium-IDE allows the use of a. program called Selenium-Remote-Control (RC). for remote control of the browser via. either a local socket or HTTP protocol. Selenium-RC is the only browser control. tool on the market which provides. automatic browser detection, automatic. re-configuration of the browser to. match your own browser, browser. specific options such as cookies and. cookies with an option to save the. cookie value and more. That means you can use it to control another browser instance (like Firefox) using a browser plug-in (like Selenium RC).

How to learn Selenium IDE?

Selenium offers both the GUI-based Selenium IDE tool and the node.

Js API to automate testing on browsers.

In this tutorial we will learn how to use selenium ide to record or debug selenium scripts. Selenium IDE is an amazing feature of selenium and comes preloaded in most browsers. Although you can use a combination of the command line scripts to run each individual test. If you want to be all out fancy than Selenium-IDE.

Selenium IDE was never meant for a single developer but should rather be used in teams so that each of your teams can develop their own unique test scripts for common use. If however you only need to automate browser scenarios, then you should opt for a full Selenium API integration. We are giving you the option of using either one or the other with a very simple step by step setup.

Why use Selenium IDE? There are three main benefits to using Selenium IDE: It makes writing your tests very convenient, because you only need to use the mouse to set values. This is very common for business apps where you typically click on textboxes and confirm dialog boxes (buttons).

Selenium IDE lets you write test cases for specific browser versions by just clicking. This avoids the issues of having to have different sets of test automation code for specific browsers.

You can save the recorded selenium scripts as a .jar that you can easily reuse in any environment where jruby/java is available How to run the Selenium IDE? There are many different ways to use Selenium IDE. You will either want to access it using either the Firefox browser plug in that we already know about or you may opt for the node.js api that integrates even more nicely with the other tools within your system. We will start with the easiest method of recording selenium tests.

Note: If you are using Firefox on linux you can install the firefox-selenium-ide package from Mozilla. To access Selenium IDE just launch the Firefox plugin you have installed before or in the browser you are using like so: When you open a blank file the IDE allows you to see a basic UI that prompts for your target browser, target language and version. As you begin to record we will notice that this time Selenium doesn't do anything.