Record and Play back with Selenium IDE

The below post will explain you about how to do a record and playback with Selenium IDE

Let us do a simple basic Google search for “Selenium” and then Clicking on Selenium HQ site and then playing back it.

Step1

Click on Selenium button in the toolbar to record and then in the popup click on the Red button as shown below to start recording.

Step 2

Enter Google.com in the address bar and click on Enter or Go arrow button

Step 3

Then enter “Selenium” in the Search box and Click on “Search” button or just press “Enter” button on the keyboard.List of results would be displayed as shown below

Step 4

Click on the first link “Selenium – Web Browser Automation” and then stop the recording by clicking on Selenium in the toolbar and then click on the Record button to stop the recording.

Step 5

You may see some code like this in Selenium Popup

Step 6

Once you have recorded a set of steps,you can play back the entire steps as by clicking on the “Play Current Test Case” button as shown below

Once you click on the “Play current test case button” the steps recorded will be play backed in the same browser (No separate browser instance would be launched)