Selenium IDE an Introduction

Selenium IDE or Selenium Integrated Development Environment is the simplest tool in the Selenium suite.

• It is a firefox plugin.
• Easy to install.
• Quickly creates test through record and playback.
• Autocomplete mode helps to enter commands quickly and to avoid invalid commands.

To use Selenium IDE to its full potential it is recommended that you have prior knowledge in HTML, Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript.

Selenium for a Beginner

Selenium is an automated testing tool. It is very similar to HP's QTP. The main difference is that it is for web based applications.

Selenium can be used for web applications across multiple browsers and platforms.

Selenium is a testing suite. That means it is not just a single software, but composed of tools for several needs. It includes:

• Selenium IDE
• Selenium Remote Control
• Selenium Web Driver
• Selenium Grid

Selenium Remote Control and Selenium Web Driver are integrated and called as Selenium 2. Do you what is Selenium 1? It is Selenium Remote Control alone.