Briefly About Selenium IDE

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Briefly About Selenium IDE
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There is a set of tools for the qualitative
execution of automated testing of different web
products. Selenium is one of such product series.
Now it will be discussed one of its components,
namely Selenium.
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Selenium IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
the simplest framework of this set. Besides, it
is the easiest to use. Relatively often, software
testing company uses such tool.
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In short, it is a plugin for the Firefox web
browser. It is installed as any other plugin. But
Selenium IDE can be used only as a prototyping
tool. For the more complex test cases creation,
it is necessary to use other Selenium products.
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What Are the Pluses of Selenium IDE?

• Its installation and usage are easily fulfilled.
• It does not require the specified programming
  skills (except HTML and DOM).
• With its help, one may export the tests into the
  formats which are supported by Selenium RC and
  WebDriver.

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What Are the Pluses of Selenium IDE?

• It contains built-in help function.
• Reports module of the test results is also
  built-in.

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What Are the Disadvantages of Selenium IDE?

• This plugin is available only in Firefox.
• Only test prototypes may be created.
• It does not support the iteration operations.
• The speed of the test fulfillment is rather slow.

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