Selenium IDE

Download and Install Selenium IDE:

To get start navigate to http://seleniumhq.org/download/ link and download the Selenium IDE and install it. When you installing the Selenium IDE, for security, Firefox notification will popup. Click on Allow and continue installation. 

Once the Installation has finished you can start the Selenium IDE by Clicking the Selenium IDE icon on the Firefox menu or by pressing Ctrl + Alt + S

Features of Selenium IDE:

Menu Bar:

The Top most portion is Menu Bar. It contains File, Edit, Actions, Options, Help menus. Menu Bar can be used to create, modify, and export test cases into different formats that use by Selenium RC and WebDriver.

File Menu:One of the most importance feature in the file menu is “Export”. Because it allows us to change the Selenium IDE test case file format into different formats which can run on Selenium RC and WebDriver. There are two option to Export

“Export Test Case As…”: Export currently open test case

“Export Test Suite As…”: Export currently open test suite.

“Export” option have multiple options in the following format:  file format which need to exported/ unite test framework to be used/ selenium framework to be used on the exported test case

Edit Menu:Edit Menu have copy, paste, delete, cut undo, Redo, SelectAll, Insert New Command, Insert New Comment. Newly inserted command and comments will place top of selected line. Commands are colored black. Comments are colored purple.

Actions:Under the Actions you can find many option related to record and play.

Options:It provides interface for configuring various setting. The Clipboard Format option allows to select the Selenese command from the editor and paste it as a code snippet. The default is HTML you can select as your need.

Base URL Bar: 

The Base URL is useful in accessing relative URLs.

Tool Bar:

It contains following in the order:

Playback Speed controller: This controls the speed of Test Script Execution.

Play entire test suite: This sequentially play all the test cases listed in the Test Plan

Play current test case: This play only the currently selected test case.

Pause/Resume: This pause or resume test case.

Step: This button allows to step into each command in test script. Basically it used debug the script.

Apply rollup rules: This is an advanced functionality. It allows to group Selenese commands together and execute them as a single action.

Record: This starts/ends your recording session.  Each browser action is entered as a Selenese command in the Editor.

Test Case Pane:

List the Currently Opened test cases. If you open test suite it list, the all the test case in test suite. Currently selected one is in bold. If the test case passed it shows in Green color and if it fails, it show in Red. The bottoms show the summery of test cases.

Editor:

Show the recorded commands. It is available in Table and Source views. In the Table view it shows three elements for each Command, those are

Command: Describe name of command

Target: Describe the Target, may be name, id or Xpath

Value: Shows value for element.

In Source view it display steps in HTML format.

Log:

Display runtime message during the execution time.

Reference:

Shows concise description of the currently selected Selenese command in the Editor. It also shows the description about the locator and value to be used on that command.