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Features of Selenium IDE - Components of Selenium IDE

Features of Selenium IDE

Below are some of the features of Selenium IDE:

  1. Record the actions you do on browser and generate the test cases and execute them. 

  2. Control the speed of execution of test cases to maintain synchronization. 

  3. Automate any web and enterprise application by providing application URL 

  4. Find any field on a web page (field is highlighted when user clicks on "find" after providing the locator) 

  5. Storing the recording as a project 

  6. Support for different types of locators 

  7. Error, exception logging and references. 

  8. Suite or batch to execute Combination of multiple test cases. 

Components of Selenium IDE

Below are the important components of Selenium IDE:

  1. File Menu 

  2. Recording options menu 

  3. Run options menu 

  4. Script Editor 

  5. Test Case Panel 

  6. Log Reference Panel 

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File Menu

Using this menu we can

  1. Create a new Project (Test case) 

  2. Open existing Project (Test case) 

  3. Save Project (Test case) 

  4. Export Test case in a Language of our choice. 

All these options are also available for Test suite.

Note: Selenium Test case format is html

Recording options menu

Using this menu we can

  1. Record the actions 

  2. Pause and resume automation 

  3. Add and Remove Breakpoints. 

Run options menu

Using this menu we can

  1. Run Current Test case 

  2. Run All Test case 

  3. Step over current command 

  4. Run Test suite 

  5. Set the test case execution speed 

Script Editor

By default the selenium IDE will give the recorded actions in two formats.

  1. Table 

  2. Source 

Table contains all the recorded actions in a tabular format.

Source contains the same recorded actions in the form of source code (By default HTML).

Test Case Panel

This panel lists all the test cases that were recorded by IDE. This is like an index to all the test cases being recorded. If the list is very big, use the search option to filter the test cases.

Log Reference Panel

  1. Log tab: Error/exception messages and information messages showing the progress are displayed in this tab. 

  2. Reference tab: Reference tab will display documentation on the current selenese commands and parameters being entered or modified in Table mode. (We will learn selenese commands and parameters in later chapters) 

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