Understanding Selenium IDE? – User friendly Tech help
What is Selenium IDE?
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nSelenium IDE is a fully-functional Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that installs as a plugin in Mozilla Firefox, which empower developers to test web applications. With the Selenium IDE, we can record user interactions with the web browser and play them back to the application.
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nThus it works on the core principle of Record and Playback (other example is UFT/QTP) but it only works on Firefox browser (Major limitation).
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nInstallation:-
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nStep1:-
nLaunch Firefox and open the below link.
nLink: – http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/
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nClick on the link for latest available release under “Selenium IDE”.
nRelease Notesn
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| Download IDE |
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Step2:-
nFirefox will protect you from installing add-ons from unfamiliar locations, so we need to click ‘Allow’ to proceed with the installation
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| Click Allow |
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Step3:-
nAfter download progress is completed, click on Install now on the pop window opened.
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| Insall IDE |
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nStep4:-
nRestart the Firefox browser
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| Restart Firefox |
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nStep5:-
nLaunching IDE
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nShortcut: – Alt + Ctrl + s
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nUse top right corner of browser and click Selenium icon
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| IDE Icon on Browser |
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nPath:-Firefox Menu -> Web Developer -> Selenium IDE
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| Launching Selenium IDE |
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| Selenium IDE |
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Note:-
n1. By default IDE comes with 4 default plugins.
n Path:- Options (Menu Bar) ->Options ->Plugins
n We can find more on this link
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n2.We can Enable Web driver playback.
n Path: – Options (Menu Bar) ->Options ->WebDriver
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| Enable WebDriver Playback |
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Firebug Installation.
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nExample Scenario?
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nIntegration with Webdriver?
