Selenium IDE plugins are available for Chrome and Firefox browsers.

It is a browser plugin to record and playback the operations performed on the browser. We use a label ‘done’ to show that once we’ve tried all three usernames, we want to exit the loop and go to the next piece of code.Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the simplest framework in the Selenium suite. A simple example: demonstrating the fundamentalsĪs a bare-bones example, here is a script that makes a simple loop to say ‘while x is equal to this value, username is y’. Remember to re-start Firefox and viola, the extension is added to the IDE. This is where labels come in: this destination will, in selenium IDE with the flow-control plug-in, always be a label. This means, as you might have guessed, ‘goto the point in the code I’m about to tell you to go to’. The ‘if’ statement we use here is always, invariably, used with as a ‘goto’ statement. The ‘if’ conditional statement is precisely as the English ‘if’ condition: ‘if I tell you i is 5, then go to do this’.

(Apologies to any experienced programmers for this explanation being a little patronizing this tutorial is aimed to include beginner programmers). Similarly, if we say variable ‘i is currently 0’, then the statement ‘while (i>5) i++’, we will keep adding one to i while i is not yet 5. For now, consider their use in programming if you are unfamiliar with them to be similar to the ‘while’ condition used in everyday English – ‘while I am at the shop, do not go out’ means that ‘while (condition = ‘at the shop’) is true’, the action ‘do not go out’ must be followed. Credit for this plug-in goes to David Hunt.Ī full explanation on while loops can be found here. This extension adds the flow-controls ‘while’, ‘if’ and ‘goto’ and introduces ‘labels’ into selenium. I STRONGLY recommend this plug-in for all work in selenium IDE as working out where to add ‘wait’ statements can be a tedious and time-consuming experience. Note for this tutorial I am also using the implicit wait plug-in. Some of these limitations can be overcome by a competent javascript developer adding javascript functions and even more can be done with the addition of plug-ins, as demonstrated in this tutorial. The selenium IDE plug-in for Firefox is great for generating test cases quickly through its record-and-playback feature but is it extremely limited.

Selenium ide plugin for firefox 3.6.28