Selenium IDE
A browser extension that records and replays interactions to build end-to-end tests for websites.
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About Selenium IDE
Selenium IDE records what you do in a web page and replays it as a test. It saves several locators for each element, so playback falls back to another if one fails. Tests can reuse other tests through a run command and use control flow commands.
Debugging features include breakpoints and pausing on exceptions. A separate command-line runner executes recorded tests across browser and OS combinations in parallel. It suits testers who want tests without writing code first.
Strengths
- Record and playback with no setup beyond the extension
- Multiple locators per element for more resilient tests
- Breakpoints and control flow commands
- Command-line runner for parallel cross-browser runs
Limitations
- Recorded tests can need manual editing as sites change
- Limited to web applications
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source.
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Developer
- The Selenium contributors
- Platforms
- Browser extension, Command line
- How it runs
- Browser extension
- Account
- Not required
- Best suited for
- Testers creating end-to-end web tests by recording
- Categories
- Automation, Developer tools, Website testing
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Selenium IDE
Compare allSoftware that can replace Selenium IDE for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Robot Framework
An open source keyword-driven framework for test automation and robotic process automation.
Robot Framework is an Apache-2.0 keyword-driven framework for readable acceptance tests, needing Python and separate libraries for browser automation instead of recording.
Ui.Vision
An open source browser extension and desktop app for recording and running browser and desktop macros.
Ui.Vision is an open-source extension for Chrome, Edge and Firefox that records, scripts or AI-generates macros with image recognition and OCR, with some features on paid plans.
Axiom.ai
A no-code browser automation and web scraping tool built in a Chrome extension, with cloud runs.
Axiom.ai is a freemium, proprietary Chrome extension for no-code browser bots and scraping with scheduled cloud runs, aimed at task automation more than testing.
Selenium IDE as an alternative
Listings that name Selenium IDE as an alternative.
Katalon Studio
A test automation tool for writing and running web, mobile, API and desktop application tests.
Selenium IDE is a free open-source browser extension that records and replays web tests, but it covers only web applications, not mobile, API or desktop testing.
TestMu AI
A cloud testing platform, formerly LambdaTest, for cross-browser, automated and AI-assisted testing of web apps.
Selenium IDE is a free Apache-2.0 browser extension that records and replays tests, with a command-line runner for parallel cross-browser runs on your own setup.
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Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
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Skyvern
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Web Scraper
A point-and-click browser extension for extracting structured data from websites, with a paid cloud service.
Jenkins
A self-hosted open source automation server for building, testing and deploying software projects.
