Selenium IDE

Benefits:

• Easy to install and use.

• Light, powerful, shareable, helps in exporting tests

• Has built-in help feature and it shows the documentation on the selected or entered command.

• Helps in debugging by displaying the information and error messages.

• It allows to set breakpoints, insert commands and comments wherever necessary.

• Provides a good support for extensions.

Limitations:

• Need to have specific elements or text appear on page to assert, verify

• Records can be wrong or fail because of css change

• Not suitable for testing extensive data

• Incapable of handling multiple windows

• Connections with the database can not be tested

• Cannot handle the dynamic part of web-based applications

• Does not support capturing of screenshots on test failures

• No feature available for generating result reports

Get started:

• Chrome

• Firefox

( Document reference )

Run with CLI:

Install selenium-side-runner: yarn global add selenium-side-runner

Install web drivers:

• Chrome: yarn add global chromedriver

• Firefox: yarn add global geckodriver

• Edge: yarn add global edgedriver

• IE: yarn add global iedriver

Launching the runner: selenium-side-runner /path/to/your-project.side

Get more config

Simple tests with login page:

• Simply import attachment file, then run tests