Questions tagged [selenium-ide]

The Selenium-IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is the tool you use to develop your Selenium test cases. It’s an easy-to-use Firefox plug-in and is generally the most efficient way to develop test cases.

Selenium IDE is implemented as a and extension, and allows you to record, edit, and debug tests. Selenium IDE includes the entire Selenium Core, allowing you to easily and quickly record and play back tests in the actual environment that they will run.

Getting Started with Selenium IDE

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In Selenium Webdriver which is better in terms of performance Linktext or css?

In Selenium it is always better to go locate the element with the Locator ID. And the Least locator is XPath (Correct me if I'm wrong). So is there any precedence or order in which a person should proceed with Locators to identify element?
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What exactly is selenese html?

I have been using selenium IDE to do some web app testing. I have been encountering errors on trying to playback the user actions, but have not been able to fix them because I have no idea what makes up selenese html targets and commands. It does…
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How to create nested test suites for Selenium IDE?

I need to create a nested test suite in Selenium that will run in the Selenium IDE or the Selenium TestRunner. This is basically the structure that I'm trying to achieve: MasterTestSuite.html - ComponentTestSuite.html - TestCase1.html -…
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Selenium IDE: How to continue script on element not found or on error

I need your help. I just want to continue my Selenium IDE script on Firefox even there's an error or element not found. I'm using script with HTML format.
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Can I use Selenium IDE to generate Cucumber/Capybara steps?

I've both installed Selenium IDE (Firefox addon) and Capybara (gem). I'm now driving Selenium from Cucumber/Capybara steps (@javascript) in my rails app. The question is: Can I export Selenium IDE steps as Cucumber/Capybara steps? In Selenium IDE…
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Programatically export Selenium IDE Test Suite to C#?

I know you can easily do this with Selenium IDE. But I would like to be able to export the test script programatically. That is to convert this to this by doing something like: seleniumIDE_API.export(htmlFilePath, outputPath,…
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Selenium IDE - stop test suite running on failure

Is it possible when running an entire test suite to make it stop on an assert failure? It currently stops running that failed test then continues to run the next test. I want it just to stop and fail on the first failure. Thanks
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Set hidden input value in Selenium?

We have hidden input fields on our form and we need Selenium to set the value of those fields. What is the best way to set the value of hidden inputs via Selenium IDE?
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How do I test modal dialogs with Selenium?

I'm getting started with Selenium IDE and trying to test a webapp that's full of modal dialogs (window.showModalDialog). Recording the test seems to work (except there's nothing in the log when the dialog pops up) but they don't play back properly.…
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How to generate Java source code from Selenium IDE (IDE code is in HTML extension)

I am using Selenium IDE (a Firefox plugin) for doing testing. I am unable to see java code when I start recording something. What I see always is HTML. Any idea what can be the best way to get the java source code. Please any one can help on this.…
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Selenium IDE -- capture current date

I would like to know with selenium is there a way to capture current date,month,year as the applicaion which i use has a seperate date, month, year fields which we need to manually type in. I problem I have here is the test case will only accepts…
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What are the inner workings of the Selenium waitFor mechanism?

I am trying to customize the behavior of Selenium's click command, (via user-extentions.js), by intercepting calls to doClick(locator). Basically I need to delay click actions whenever our application's "busy indicator" is being displayed. (Now the…
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click / clickAndWait not working

A recorded test script includes a google search. After clicking on "Google Search", the next action was to click on a link in the test results, however during playback this happens before the browser has loaded the results, so the solution seemed to…
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Error running Selenium IDE "Error: Permission denied to access property 'nr@context'

Starting this morning (4/3/14), I have been getting errors when my Selenium IDE tests run against my site. These tests were working just fine yesterday. I am running FF 25, Selenium IDE 2.5.0. Whenever it gets to a step where it needs to click or…
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"VerifyTextPresent" returning incorrect result for Selenium IDE

I am using Selenium IDE to record some scenarios and wanted to check if a particular text is present on the page. I inserted a command "VerifyTextPresent". However, it always returns the result as true even when the particular text is not…
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