Most QA engineers using the Selenium tool suite are familiar with the popular record and playback tool –
Selenium IDE. This Selenium IDE was earlier available just as a Firefox add-on. Later, it got deprecated with the introduction of the latest Firefox versions. This is because the add-ons in the latest Firefox (ver. 55) were standardized under the
Web Extension mechanism.
With Selenium 4, the IDE is revived and now its add-on is available for major web-browsers like Firefox and Chrome. The add-on for Selenium IDE is now also
available on the MS store.
The new Selenium 4 IDE provides some notable features like :
* Improved GUI for intuitive user experience.
* The new IDE also comes bundled with a SIDE tool aka Selenium IDE runner. It allows QAs to run .side projects on a node.js platform. This SIDE runner also enables individual QAs to run cross browser tests on local or Cloud Selenium Grid.
* Improved control flow mechanism that enables testers to write better “while” and “if” conditions.
* The new IDE comes with an enhanced element locator strategy (Like a backup strategy) which helps locate an element in case the web element couldn’t be located. It will result in the creation of stable test cases.
* The code for test cases recorded using Selenium IDE can be exported in the desired language binding like Java, C#, Python, .NET, and JavaScript.
Source : Browserstack
