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In the previous articles, I have explained Installing, Launching, Recording and Playing back using Selenium IDE in Chrome browser.
In this article, I am going to practically demonstrate Installing, Launching, Recording and Playing back using Selenium IDE in the other supported browser i.e. Firefox Browser.
Let’s get started.
Install, Launch, Record, and Playback using Selenium IDE in Firefox Browser
Follow the below steps for installing, launching, performing Record and Playback using New Selenium IDE in Firefox browser:
1) Open Firefox browser, google search for ‘Selenium IDE’ and click on the link displayed in the search results as shown below:
2) In the navigated page, click on ‘Firefox Download’ button as shown below:
3) It will open the Firefox Add-ons page in a new tab and click on ‘Add to Firefox’ button on the page as shown below:
4) In the displayed permissions dialog, click on the ‘Add’ button as shown below:
5) Observe that the Selenium IDE will be successfully installed in the Firefox browser as shown below:
So far, we were able to successfully install Selenium IDE in firefox browser.
In the next steps, I will explain launching the Selenium IDE in firefox browser.
6) Open Firefox browser having Selenium IDE already installed and click on the ‘Selenium IDE’ icon that is displayed on the browser as shown below:
7) Selenium IDE will be launched and select ‘Record a new test in a new project’ as shown below:
8) In the displayed ‘Name your new Project’ dialog, enter any project name say ‘OmayoProj’ in the ‘Project Name’ text field and click on ‘OK’ button:
9) In the displayed ‘Set your project’s base URL’ dialog, enter the Base URL say http://omayo.blogspot.com/ and click on ‘Start Recording’ button as shown below:
10) A fresh firefox browser window will be launched by Selenium IDE and ‘Selenium IDE is recording’ message will be displayed on the window as shown below:
11) As Selenium IDE is in recording mode, whatever action we perform on the freshly launched firefox browser window will be recorded in the background by Selenium IDE.
Let’s perform a small action say ‘Type QAFox text into the Search box field’ and click on ‘Search’ button as shown below:
Once the above action is performed, switch to Selenium IDE, observe that the actions performed by us on the application got recorded in Selenium IDE and click on ‘Stop Recording’ option to stop recording further actions as shown below:
12) On clicking ‘Stop Recording’ option above, ‘Name your new test’ dialog will be displayed.
Enter any Test Name say TestOne into the ‘Tets Name’ field and click on ‘OK’ button as shown below:
13) Observe that the given Test Name will be displayed under the ‘Tests’ pane as shown below:
So far, we were able to record the user actions performed on the application using Selenium IDE.
Now, lets playback the recorded test using Selenium by following the below steps.
14) While the newly created ‘TestOne’ is selected, click on ‘Run current test’ option as shown below:
15) Observe that a fresh firefox browser will be launched automatically by Selenium IDE, navigated to the base URL, automatically performs the Search action without our intervention and all the test steps which got successfully executed by Selenium IDE got displayed in dark green color as shown below:
Hence we were able to successfully record the test and playback the recorded test using Selenium IDE.
As the test has been already recorded, we can playback this test any number of times whenever required.
Here concludes this article.
In the next article, I will explain the Locating Strategies in Selenium IDE.
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