{"id":1573,"date":"2020-01-14T12:15:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T12:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2020-01-14T12:17:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T12:17:14","slug":"using-selenium-ide-record-and-playback-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/using-selenium-ide-record-and-playback-tool","title":{"rendered":"Using Selenium IDE Record and Playback tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes read<\/span><\/span>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\" class=\"lead\"><a href=\"https:\/\/selenium.dev\/selenium-ide\/\">Selenium IDE<\/a> is an open source record and playback tool used. Easy to use and fast in generating UI functional test cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-01-14-at-12.13.13-1024x539.png\" alt=\"selenium ide\" class=\"wp-image-1577\" width=\"768\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-01-14-at-12.13.13-1024x539.png 1024w, https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-01-14-at-12.13.13-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-01-14-at-12.13.13-768x404.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>End to End testing<\/strong> is quite fast when you create tests from the Selenium IDE <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/selenium-ide\/mooikfkahbdckldjjndioackbalphokd\">Chrome Extension<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-GB\/firefox\/addon\/selenium-ide\/\">Firefox Add-on<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Debugging <\/strong>tests, setting breakpoints, running an UI test to a specific test step work out of the box the new version of Selenium IDE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Test suites<\/strong> are available in order to group previously generated test cases, and exporting your test cases is a click of a button away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Concurrent execution<\/strong> of test cases is available from the command-line (terminal) and which lowers your execution time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Multiple selector fallback<\/strong> happens automatically, basically when you click and record a test case and interact with an element, Selenium IDE generated 3-5 fallback selectors, so that in case first selector fails, Selenium IDE automatically verifies the other selectors before failing the test step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-01-07-at-12.42.01-1024x626.png\" alt=\"selenium ide\" class=\"wp-image-1574\" width=\"768\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-01-07-at-12.42.01-1024x626.png 1024w, https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-01-07-at-12.42.01-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-01-07-at-12.42.01-768x470.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can have a look in more depth with the new Selenium IDE course created <a href=\"https:\/\/coursinator.com\/course\/selenium-ide-test-automation-tool-with-record-and-playback?id=d5d3dc5d734f921f5a1358d5ce4c43f2\">Understand Selenium IDE Test Automation Tool #seleniumide course<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coursinator.com\/course\/selenium-ide-test-automation-tool-with-record-and-playback?id=d5d3dc5d734f921f5a1358d5ce4c43f2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-01-07-at-12.42.00.png\" alt=\"selenium ide course\" class=\"wp-image-1575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-01-07-at-12.42.00.png 750w, https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2020-01-07-at-12.42.00-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/coursinator.com\/course\/selenium-ide-test-automation-tool-with-record-and-playback?id=d5d3dc5d734f921f5a1358d5ce4c43f2\">Selenium IDE Video Course<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes read<\/span><\/span>Selenium IDE is an open source record and playback tool used. Easy to use and fast in generating UI functional test cases. End to End testing is quite fast when you create tests from the Selenium IDE Chrome Extension or Firefox Add-on. Debugging tests, setting breakpoints, running an UI test to a specific test step&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/using-selenium-ide-record-and-playback-tool\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Using Selenium IDE Record and Playback tool\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}