How to Set Up Selenium IDE

by Prakash Bojja

This article will explain you how to set up selenium IDE in your system. The procedure of setting up the Selenium IDE is quite easy. The Selenium IDE is a web application testing tool which helps the Test Engineer to automate the testing of the web application. It's also useful for the Customer to know whether the application is well built.
 

Here is an article on Selenium IDE, the web application testing tool which is easy to use and easy to understand. The API of the Selenium IDE is well built. It is developed on JavaScript platform. Selenium IDE supports record and play with manual script generation which can be run on Mozilla Firefox browser.

Now let me explain you about the installation of the Mozilla Firefox browser.
Mozilla Firefox browser is developed by the Mozilla corporation and is an open source browser. You can download it from the official website.
Once you search for the Mozilla Firefox browser in the Google search engine you will find respective search result. When the web site opens just click free download present in the browser page and follow the set up procedure.
The Set up procedure for Mozilla Firefox is as follows:

• Click on Free download
• The .exe file of the browser is downloaded into your PC/Laptop.
• Click on the .exe file
• Click on Run
• The browser set up wizard window will be opened.
• Follow the set up wizard instructions. Once the installation is done restart the system.
• Now let me tell you about the installation of the "Selenium IDE. "

Navigate to the Selenium official web site. Follow the link to visit the Selenium IDE official website where the new version of Selenium 1.8 is present. http://seleniumhq.org/download/
Install the Mozilla Firefox browser in advance so that you can install the Selenium as it is an add-on. Now let me explain you about the procedure.
The set up procedure of Selenium is as follows:

• Navigate to the Selenium official website with the help of the above link.
• Click on the version number 1. 8 from the browser.
• Click on Install.
• Click on Allow.
• Click once again on install.
• Finally Restart the browser.

To install Selenium extensions the precondition for it is, you should have already installed the Selenium IDE in your browser. Follow the above instructions to set up the Selenium extensions. The Selenium extensions are available in the Add-on page of Mozilla Firefox browser. So first you have to navigate to the Add-on page of Mozilla Firefox browser and enter the following search term I.E "Selenium". Now click on enter and you will be shown all the results for your search term. Click on Install button present next to Selenium Add-Ons. The procedure to set up the Add-ons for the Selenium IDE is same as the above one which i explained to you in the above Set up which is done for Selenium IDE.

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