SELENIUM-IDE

ü  Selenium IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a prototyping tool for building test scripts.

ü  It is a Firefox plugin and provides an easy-to-use interface for developing automated tests.

ü  Selenium IDE has a recording feature, which records user actions as they are performed and then exports them as a reusable script in one of many programming languages that can be later executed.

Note: Even though Selenium IDE has a “Save” feature that allows users to keep the tests in a tablebased format for later import and execution, it is not designed to run your test passes nor is it designed to build all the automated tests you will need.

Specifically, Selenium IDE doesn’t provide iteration or conditional statements for test scripts. At the time of writing there is no plan to add such thing.

The reasons are partly technical and partly based on the Selenium developers encouraging best practices in test automation which always requires some amount of programming.

Selenium IDE is simply intended as a rapid prototyping tool. The Selenium developers recommend for serious, robust test automation either Selenium 2 or Selenium 1 to be used with one of the many supported programming languages.