Selenium IDE- Best way to start your automation journey.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We used Selenium IDE for our e-commerce project. We automated end-to-end e-commerce use cases. It helped us automate common end-to-end test cases, such as opening the website, searching for a product, adding a product to the cart, and checking the checkout flow. This reduces manual testing effort and saves time, helping us find issues early during critical releases.
Pros
- Selenium IDE is very useful in quick regression during critical release.
- This makes it easy to record and create test cases without writing much code.
Cons
- Data Driven testing.
- Handling of dynamic elements.
- Debugging
Return on Investment
- Selenium IDE makes faster the regression which saves the manual testing efforts.
- Selenium IDE is an open-source tool, so the product cost is very low, which saves the company money compared to licensed software.
- The downside of Selenium IDE is that we have to maintain it every time the application changes.
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Tricentis Tosca
Other Software Used
Atlassian Jira, Slack, Tricentis qTest