What is selenium IDE and How to install it and selenium IDE UI feature description ?

Introduction

Selenium IDE:- Before learn about selenium it is necessary to know about selenium IDE ( Integrated development Environment).

Selenium is a web application testing tool that was developed by Jason Huggins in 2004. If you not have much experience on coding /programming so don’t worry.  You can build automatic script through Selenium ide at any selenium supported languages such as Java, PHP, Ruby, C#, Python and verify the application. With the Selenium IDE, you can record user interactions with the web browser and play them back to test for errors

Features:-

1.        Selenium IDE is a Firefox plugin.

2.        It’s an open-source software that works on all three major platforms – Windows, Mac and Linux.

How to install selenium IDE

1. Open the firefox browser to navigate http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/.

2. Click on the selenium IDE version number to install the selenium ide as a plugin in firefox browser.

3. Restart the firefox browser

4. Open the firefox browser and click on the selenium icon as per screen shot. And selenium ide will appear on the browser. Alternatively, press CTRL + ALT + S to open the Selenium IDE window

Let’s take a closer look at the Selenium IDE window:-

• The left pane lists all the open test cases.
• The ‘Base URL’ shows the URL the test is being performed on.
• The ‘Table’ pane will show a list of actions recorded as part of the test. You can see how this works in the example below.
• The ‘Fast-Slow’ slider dictates how fast/slow playback for the recorded test should be.
• The ‘Play’ button plays back the test.
• The big red button at the rightmost edge is the ‘Record’ toggle switch. Switch it on to record interactions on any website.
• The bottom pane shows a log of actions and a reference list.