Selenium Ide is a mixing development environment for Selenium Scripts. It implemented as Firefox extension and allows you To record, edit, and debug tests....Selenium Ide is not a Recording tool, it is a complete IDE. You can also to use its Recording capability.
This feature is like that of QTP. It is easy to install and Easy to learn. Because of its simplicity,
Selenium IDE is only be Used as a prototyping tool.
Features of Selenium IDE:
There are so many features in selenium IDE to provide us, let us Discuss these key features in detail.
MENU BAR:
The menu bar is present at the top of the selenium window. It has
Been five menus, these five menus given below.
1) File menu
2) Action menu
3) Help menu
4) Edit menu
5) Options menu
File Menu:
The file menu is like kinds of applications. By using File Menu, the user is able to,
1) Create new test page, Open before created test page as Well, as save the current test page.
2) Export Test case as export test suite in any programming language This associated with selenium RC and selenium web driver
3) Export test case as Option exports and allows converting only the Currently open selenium IDE test cases.
4) Export Test Case as option exports and converts all the test cases Associated currently opened IDE Test case.
5) Close the test case.
Edit Menu:
Edit Menu provides options like Copy, Redo, Cut, Undo, Delete, Paste
It also allows to:
* Add new command
* Add new comment
Action Menu:
1. Actions Menu provides,
2. Play entire current suite
3. Play entire test suite
4. Record
5. Toggle Breakpoint
6. Set or Clear start point
7. Pausing & Resuming of certain task or activity
Options Menu:
In selenium testing, the Options menu is also in selenium IDE. This Allows the user to practice various settings according to his Requirements, it considered as the most important and efficient
Tool of selenium IDE tool
Various IDE Plugging:
Selenium IDE: Ruby Formatters
Selenium IDE: Python Formatters
Selenium IDE: Java Formatters
Help Menu:
It aims to provide the user help about his or her problem when Performing selenium testing
EDITOR
The editor in IDE has two views those are source view and table view.
Advantages:
Selenium IDE is very easy to use.
Programming language experience is not required for Selenium IDE
Selenium IDE is flexible for the users.
In Selenium IDE, user can debug and set breakpoints
Selenium IDE provides Logging capabilities using file login plug-in.
It converts the test to various programming languages like java HTML
Disadvantage:
Selenium IDE doesn't support error handling
It will not support iteration and conditional statement
Selenium IDE do not support Database testing
Doesn't support test script grouping
Selenium IDE is Firefox plug-in, thus its support limited to Firefox only