A) Selenium Introduction and Installation.

□What is Selenium IDE?

Selenium IDE is a Firefox add-on. It has been developed using JavaScript so that it can interact with DOM (Document Object Model) using native JavaScript calls.

Selenium IDE was developed to allow testers and developers to record their actions as they follow the workflow that they need to test.

□Installing Selenium IDE.

1. Go to http://seleniumhq.org/download/

2.  Now click on the following link.

3. Now you may get a message saying Firefox prevented this site (seleniumhq.org) from asking you to  

    Install software on your computer. If you do, click on the Allow button.

4. A pop up will appear, as seen in the next screenshot:

5. Once the countdown has finished, the Install button will become active and you can click on it. This will  

    Now install the Selenium IDE as a Firefox add-on.

6. Once the installation process is complete, it will ask you to restart Firefox. Click on the Restart button.

    Firefox will close and then reopen.

7. To start the selenium IDE click on: Tools → Selenium IDE.

    Open the following window:

□ Explanation of font page components:

Base URL      —This is the URL that the test will start. All open commands will be relative to the Base URL   

                                   Unless a full path is inserted in the open command.

Speed Slider—This is the slider under the Fast Slow labels on the screen.

Icon	Function
	Run all the tests in the IDE.
	Run a single test in the IDE.
	Pause a test that is currently running.
	Step through the test once it has paused.
	This is the record button. It will be engaged when the test is recording.