Selenium IDE :- Introduction of Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE (Integrated Development Environment) 

DAY 1

Introduction of Selenium IDE :- 

• Selenium IDE is the simplest of the tools in the Selenium suite, and the quickest way to get started with creating scripts. 

• To use selenium IDE, It is not compulsory to have any programming language knowledge.

• However it only supports record and playback within Firefox. This feature is similar to that of QTP. It is effortless to install and easy to learn.

•  For automating other browsers you’ll need to use one of the more advanced Selenium tools, such as Selenium RC or Selenium 2 (or Selenium Grid if you want to run your tests in parallel).

•  Selenium IDE is open source web application testing tool. Selenium IDE provides facility to export recorded script in many languages like HTML, Java, Ruby, RSpec, Python, C#, JUnit and TestNG. You can use these exported script in Selenium RC or webdriver.

• First, let’s install Selenium IDE, which is really just an add-on for Firefox.To use selenium IDE for regression testing of web application, you have to download it from link given here .Click here to Free download Selenium IDE. You can find latest released version for downloading.But one thing i would like to clarify here is that selenium IDE supports only Mozilla Firefox web browser. So don't try to download it in any other web browser. See my next post to learn how to download and install Selenium IDE in step by step process.