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What are the advantages and disadvantages of Selenium IDE?

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Selenium IDE (Integrated Development ENVIRONMENT) previously known as Selenium RECORDER is the simplest tool. Selenium IDE is an automated testing tool that supports record and PLAYBACK actions.

This firefox plugin has immense benefits for test automation.

Advantages are -

  • It is an Open-Source tool
  • very easy to get started with for functional testing of web applications.
  • It enables to record and playback for testing web applications.
  • Capability to convert the test to different programming languages
  • Experience in a programming language is not required
  • Can debug and SET breakpoints
  • Available as google chrome IDE

Disadvantages are -

  • Being a firefox plugin, the scope is limited to firefox browser
  • Does not support iteration
  • Error handling is not supported
  • Database testing is not supported
  • Grouping of scripts not supported
  • Does export WebDriver script
  • Does not support data-driven scripts.


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