Selenium IDE Reviews & Product Details

Selenium IDE is very easy to use.

It has the capability to convert the test to different programming languages such as html, java etc

Programming language experience is not required for Selenium IDE

In Selenium IDE, user can debug and set breakpoints Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Selenium IDE is a Firefox plugin, thus its support is limited to Firefox only

Selenium IDE does not support Database testing and cannot be used for desktop application testing. Web-based applications can only be tested Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Selenium IDE is basically a Firefox and Chrome add-on, and allow to record, edit and debug tests. Selenium IDE allows to execute commands on web browsers. Some exmples of such commands are, clicking on a DOM element, inserting data in a text field, and dragging elements. Selenium IDE comes with various features:

1.) Easy to setup - Setting up selenium IDE is very easy as it's a browser add-on. Selenium IDE is unlike selenium framework where we have to install server etc.

2.) Easy to use - Selenium IDE is very easy to use and doesn't require you to have ample to additional skill set. Just having little web knowledge is sufficient to write and run the scripts.

3.) Free - The best thing about Selenium is, It's free to use. You don't have to pay to use Selenium or Selenium IDE.

4.) Support - Comes with community and professional support.

5.) Various Programming Language - One the best thing about Selenium is that it supports various programming languages such as Java, Python etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Waiting time is probably the wrost part about Selenium IDE. Sometimes it stuck while waiting for an element and takes a lot of time to finish test case execution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Selenium IDE is perhaps the best tool in the selenium suite. It's basically a Firefox add-on that is very helpful to create tests very quickly. It does come with a record and playback functionality which is indeed the best feature I like about selenium IDE.

The record and playback feature lets you record the test scenario and you can play it back. Selenium IDE is very easy to use tool and doesn't expect you to have prior knowledge of programming, but it's good to have some knowledge of JavaScript and DOM.

Since selenium IDE supports multiple languages, the test cases can be exported in multiple programming languages. Following are some of the languages:

.cs (C# source code)

.java (Java source code)

.py (Python source code)

.rb (Ruby source code) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although the selenium IDE is powerful and quite handy, but it should always be used only to prototype tests. To develop the actual test suite, Selenium Web Driver is a good choice. The selenium IDE is not designed to develop complex test suites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use for new testers, Does the Job well if used right , I have had my team members with basic skills become Conversant with Selenium in a matter of 30-45days. Does not need heavy Investment which is a big plus, Good Developer community and forums. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wish they could extend it for all technologies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easily get started with automation

Reduced technical capability from users

Can be easily be implemented Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Requires a lot of work and learning to integrate into projects

managing test cases can be hard

The fragility of tests can cause a lot of problems if you haven't done the work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Selenium IDE is the lightest and most easily emitted IDE. Simple interface and quick installation without programming skills. Also this product is free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Only one minus: A very long wait for a response from the support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The record and play of the automation scripts is quite easy and useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The page elements were identified incorrectly many a times with their dynamic id number Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is damn easy and very user friendly tool where anyone can learn and work easily with out prior experience, it is a very good easy to learn and implement tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That it only supports web based application n requires third party tools for other platform apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Free

Compatible with multiple languages

Great community online to get answers or snippets of code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lesser support for IE

Needs to have a better WAIT strategy integrated within the system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Easy record and playback: The recording and playback are very easy with just a click of a button. It's very helpful while running multiple application together. You can easily switch back and forth.

- Intelligent field selection will use IDs, names, or XPath as needed: You are not limited to write complex XPaths to select fields but can use HTML field id and names to select the fields.

- Autocomplete for all common Selenium commands: I like this feature, but they should provide autocomplete for other selenium commands as well to make it handy.

- Walk through tests: Since you can see the script also in the IDE, it helps to walk through the test.

- Debug and set breakpoints: Indeed an extremely useful feature, to debug an application.

- Save tests as HTML, Ruby scripts, or any other format: Not limited to any particular scripting languages, selenium IDE provides support for many scripting languages.

- Support for Selenium user-extensions.js file: This is one of the very useful features. You can use the user-extension file to build your own custom actions. Selenium IDE documentation provides a good guild to build actions.

- Customization is very easy.

- Runs in many browsers, such as Firefox, Chrome, IE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I experienced, its hard to write and execute a script on HTML canvas element. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.