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Selenium IDE in Brief<\/strong>
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Selenium IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment is the easy to use the tool in the Selenium Suite, it is primarily a record or run tool that a test case developer uses to develop Selenium Test cases. Because of this Selenium IDE should only be used as a prototyping tool IDE can be used by anyone who is new to developing automated test cases for their web applications and maintaining complex test suites. Add the extension of your specific browser for getting started with Selenium IDE<\/em><\/strong><\/a> one does not require any special setup. To easily record interactions with the website Selenium IDE provides you with a Graphical User Interface GUI. It is also a Firefox add-on which creates tests in a quicker manner through its record-and-playback functionality, which is similar to that of QTP. Selenium IDE allows a user or a test case developer to create the test cases and test suites and edit them later as per their requirements. The development environment also provides the capability of converting test cases to different programming languages, which makes it easier for the user and does not mandate the need for knowing a specific programming language<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Without prior knowledge in programming however we will be able to use Selenium IDE and to utilize this tool to its complete potential should be much familiar with HTML, JavaScript, and the Document Object Model. Knowledge of JavaScript will be required when we get to the section about the Selenese command \u201crun script.\u201d Selenium IDE feature serves two purposes and also supports autocomplete mode when creating tests. Firstly, it helps the tester to enter commands majorly rapidly. Also Secondly, It restricts the user from entering invalid commands.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Selenium IDE as an Extension\/Add-On<\/strong>
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Previous versions of the recording tool had multiple issues like lack of cross-browser support, inability to extend functionality or do visual testing, no provision for debugging or running scripts in parallel, and more. Selenium IDE did not see the light of the day until 2018 as mostly everyone focussed on Selenium WebDriver<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. From December 2018 up till now, there has been a steady increase in the growth of Selenium IDE, which means its popularity is increasing. As of 2006, the IDE was working only on Firefox, but today it works on all major browsers as a plugin. Using the SIDE runner, the command line test runner, and the IDE can also test cases on the Selenium WebDriver server. Browsers supported by Selenium IDE are Edge, Firefox, Chrome, etc.<\/p>\n

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Benefits of Using Selenium IDE<\/strong>
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