As part of exploring the other Selenium IDE features in-depth, I will explain the below different Project options in Selenium IDE:
- Creating Projects
- Renaming Projects
- Saving Projects
- Opening Projects
Let’s get started with a practical demonstration.
New Selenium IDE – Creating, Renaming, Saving, and Opening Projects
Follow the below steps for exploring different Project Options in Selenium IDE:
1) Click on ‘Selenium IDE’ icon in the chrome browser as shown below:
2) Select ‘Create a new project’ option in the displayed Selenium IDE as shown below:
3) In the displayed ‘Name your new project’ dialog, enter any project name say ‘ProjectOne’ and click on ‘OK’ button as shown below:
4) Observe that the new project having name ‘ProjectOne’ got created in Selenium IDE as shown below:
5) Hover the mouse on the project name and click on ‘edit’ option as shown below:
Rename the Project name to ‘Project1’ as shown below:
6) Enter any URL say http://omayo.blogspot.com/ into the ‘Playback base URL’ field and click on the ‘Start Recording’ button as shown below:
Record the steps in the website and click on ‘stop recording’ option as shown below:
In the displayed ‘Name your new test’ dialog, enter any test name say ‘TestA’ and click on ‘OK’ button as shown below:
Observe that the Test got named as shown below:
7) Click on ‘Save Project’ option as shown below:
8) In the displayed window, select the location where you want to save the project on your machine and click on ‘Save’ button as shown below:
9) Click on ‘Create new project’ option on the Selenium IDE as shown below:
10) In the displayed ‘Name your new project’ dialog, enter any project name say ‘Project2’ and click on ‘OK’ button as shown below:
Observe that the new project having name ‘Project2’ got created in Selenium IDE as shown below:
Enter any URL say http://omayo.blogspot.com/ into the ‘Playback base URL’ field and click on the ‘Start Recording’ button as shown below:
Record the steps in the website and click on ‘stop recording’ option as shown below:
In the displayed ‘Name your new test’ dialog, enter any test name say ‘TestX’ and click on ‘OK’ button as shown below:
Observe that the Test got named as shown below:
Click on ‘Save Project’ option as shown below:
In the displayed window, select the location where you want to save the project on your machine and click on ‘Save’ button as shown below:
11) Close the Selenium IDE, by clicking on ‘X’ option on the IDE as shown below:
Now open the Selenium IDE again from the chrome browser and observe that the Selenium IDE will be displayed with different startup options as shown below:
Click on ‘Open an existing project’ option as shown below:
In the displayed window, navigate to the place on your machine where you have saved the Selenium Projects in our earlier steps, select any saved project say ‘Project1’ and click on ‘Open’ button as shown below:
Observe that the Saved Project got opened in the Selenium IDE as shown below:
12) Click on the ‘Open Project’ option on the Selenium IDE a shown below:
In the displayed window, navigate to the place on your machine where you have saved the Selenium Projects in our earlier steps, select any saved project say ‘Project2’ and click on ‘Open’ button as shown below:
Observe that the newly selected project got opened in the Selenium IDE as shown below:
Here concludes the practical demonstration of all the Creating, Renaming, Saving and Opening Projects in Selenium IDE.
In the next article, I will practically demonstrate another Selenium IDE feature to be explored (Refer other features to be explored here)
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