Up to now I’ve only written here about using Selenium with the handy Firefox add-on, which provides the ability to just record-and-play. There are limitations to just using the Selenium IDE, and only a few of these are addressed by using plugins. There’s likely to become a time where you just need to graduate from [...]
An introduction to extending the features of Selenium IDE via plugins Selenium IDE is great for basic record-and-playback within Firefox, however it certainly has some limitations. Back in December 2009, Adam Goucher started to write a plugin API for Selenium IDE. I believe Adam’s main reason for doing this was to allow the features of [...]
Unlike other tools used for testing web applications, Selenium controls a real browser. This allows Selenium to interact with web applications in much the same way that a user does — particularly useful when dealing with dynamic sites using techniques to load content without causing a new page to load. Despite this, I often see [...]
How to investigate and resolve test failures. In this post I’m going to demonstrate using the debugging features in Selenium IDE to investigate and fix failures in your automated tests. As you’ve probably already seen, Selenium IDE reports failures in the log console, and failed test cases within the suite are shown in red. This [...]
A look at the common Selenium commands and locator methods. In my first post I introduced Selenium IDE and stepped through creating and running your first test case and test suite. In this second post I am going to introduce some of the basic commands in Selenium, and the various methods used to locate elements [...]
An introduction, showing how to create a test case and test suite with Selenium IDE I discovered Selenium IDE in 2006 when I was looking for a way to automate testing using a real browser. I found it simple to pick up and surprisingly powerful, and since then it’s become even more so. Selenium IDE [...]
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