Selenium IDE

Selenium - IDE

The Selenium-IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is an easy-to-use Firefox plug-in for develop Selenium test cases. It provides a Graphical User Interface for recording user actions using Firefox which is used to learn and use Selenium, but it can only be used only with Firefox browser as other browsers are not supported.

However, The recorded scripts can be converted into various programming languages supported by Selenium and the scripts can be executed on various other browsers as well.

Click on each one of the below functionalities listed in the table to understand them in detail.

Title	Description
Download Selenium IDE	This section deals with how to download and configure selenium IDE
Selenium IDE Features	This section deals with the features available in Selenium IDE
Creating Selenium IDE Tests	This section deals with how to create IDE tests using recording feature
Selenium IDE Script Debugging	This section deals with debugging the selenium IDE script
Inserting Verification Points	Inserting verification points in selenium IDE is discussed in this section.
Selenium Pattern Matching	This section deals with how to work with regular expressions using IDE.
Selenium User Extensions	The Java script that allows user to customize or add new functionality.
Different Browser Execution	This section deals with how to execute selenium IDE scripts on different browsers.

Download Selenium - IDE

Step 1 : Launch Firefox and navigate to the URL - http://seleniumhq.org/download/. Under the Selenium IDE section, click on the link that shows the current version number as shown below.

Step 2 : Firefox add-ons notifier pops up with allow and disallow options. User has to allow the installation.

Step 3 : The add-ons installer warns the user about untrusted add-ons. Click 'Install Now'.

Step 4 : The Selenium IDE can now be accessed by navigating to 'Tools' >> 'Selenium IDE'.

Step 5 : The Selenium IDE can also be accessed directly from quick access menu bar as shown below.