Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE

Selenium Record and Playback tool for ease of getting acquainted with Selenium WebDriver.

What is Selenium IDE?
Selenium IDE is a Chrome extension designed to streamline repetitive tasks and aid in website automation and testing. The extension records your interactions with websites, allowing for playback which ultimately assists in generating and maintaining site automation and tests. Key features include recording and playing back tests on Chrome and Firefox, organizing tests into suites for convenient management, and the ability to save and load scripts. Selenium IDE proudly supports Selenium 3.
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Stats
Users: 800,000+
Version: 3.17.2 (Last updated: 2021-12-08)
Creation date: 2020-03-17
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • activeTab
  • contextMenus
  • downloads
  • webNavigation
  • storage
  • debugger
  • <all_urls>
Size: 4.15M
URLs: Website
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Selenium IDE
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Summary

The new Selenium IDE is designed to record your interactions with websites to help you generate and maintain site automation, tests, and remove the need to manually step through repetitive takes. Features include:

  • Recording and playing back tests on Firefox and Chrome.
  • Organizing tests into suites for easy management.
  • Saving and loading scripts, for later playback.
  • Support for Selenium 3.
User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Powerful utility and quality of life tool
  • Ability to export to various programming languages
  • Easy-to-use for beginners
Cons
  • Resource hog, uses a lot of memory
  • Poor job of picking locators
  • Slow performance
Most mentioned
  • Slow performance
  • Resource hog
  • Useful for beginners
Recent reviews
Fantastic tool, had to seek assistance in some frame by frame development and it worked perfectly. Don't expect it to do all your job.
by Agustin Martin Agustin Martin, 2024-04-17

I recorded this review using this app
by Jackson Matheson Jackson Matheson, 2024-04-10

by Péter Oroszvári Péter Oroszvári, 2024-04-07
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Safety
Risk impact

Selenium IDE is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this extension unless you absolutely trust this publisher.

Risk likelihood

Selenium IDE has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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