Tag Archives: Selenium Internals

Using Special Keys in Selenium IDE – Part 2

In part 1, we saw how to use the special keys in the sendKeys command in Selenium IDE starting in v2.3.0. Selenium IDE v2.4.0 shortened some key names. This post serves as a quick reference and provides the full list … Continue reading

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Using Special Keys in Selenium IDE – Part 1

I added special keys support to the sendKeys command in Selenium IDE v2.3.0. Not just in normal playback, but also in Webdriver playback. Along with this, I added special keys support to all the officially supported formatters for Java, Ruby, … Continue reading

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Changes to Selenium IDE Plugin System

Plugins for Selenium IDE were an awesome idea. They allowed plugin authors to execute any code they wanted. However, with great power also came great risk of breakage. A practical problem that arose is that when a plugin broke down, … Continue reading

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Managing Locator Builders in Selenium IDE

If you use Selenium, then you must already know about locators. The locators in Selenium are usually the target part of your Selenese commands which identifies the elements on the web page that you want to interact with. This post … Continue reading

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Testing Evidence with Selenium IDE

Recently I ran into a fan. My fan! I still can’t contain my surprise! I never expected that I would have fans. (OK, just one so far :-)) He asked me if there was a way to save the test … Continue reading

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Extending the Selenium IDE by Adding Commands to the Context Menu – Part 2

Improving the ‘It works’ commandBuilder This is the second part of the series of posts on extending the Selenium IDE using Command Builders. Command builders allow you to add items to the Selenium IDE context menu in Firefox providing convenient … Continue reading

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Extending the Selenium IDE by Adding Commands to the Context Menu – Part 1

Creating the ‘It works’ commandBuilder This is the first of a series of posts on the Command Builders extension support in Selenium IDE. I have already covered the Locator Builders in an earlier post. I just love shortcuts. Don’t you love them too? … Continue reading

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The Selenium-IDE 1.x plugin API (Part 12) – Adding Locator Builders

With the new 1.0.8 release, Selenium IDE will introduce some more API features. This time with a new method addPluginProvidedIdeExtension(). As the name suggests, this method adds support for plugins to provide IDE extensions. It takes the chrome URL of the … Continue reading

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Creating CSS Locator Builders for Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE has a very powerful extension support. In this post I am going to show you how easy it is to extend Selenium IDE with new locator builders. A locator in Selenium is a means of identifying an element … Continue reading

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Almost Magical Facelift of Selenium IDE Panes

Styles are awesome! What started as an exploration to add some style for a menu for one of my Selenium IDE Plugins turned into a small redesign of the panes header of Selenium IDE. What I refer to as panes is … Continue reading

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