Category Archives: Selenium

Test Suite Batch Converter Plugin v1.5 Released

I have released a new version of the Test Suite Batch Converter plugin for Selenium IDE. This version, v1.5, brings the ability to convert test cases directly without requiring them to be part of a test suite via a new … Continue reading

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The Selenium Expert is Here!

I would like to introduce you to my latest plugin for the Selenium IDE – the Selenium Expert. This plugin is my attempt to bring the wonderful world of inspections, tips, hints, fixes and refactoring to Selenese! The Selenium Expert … Continue reading

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The Power Debugger Plugin v1.0 for Selenium IDE Released

This plugin for Selenium-IDE improves debugging and troubleshooting issues with scripts. This plugin adds the pause on fail tool to the Selenium IDE toolbar. When pause on fail is turned on, Selenium IDE would pause the execution of the test … Continue reading

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My Selenium IDE Plugins compatibility with Selenium IDE v1.0.8

Selenium IDE v1.0.8 was released on Friday last week. I have finished testing and I am happy to say that all plugins are working as expected. There is no need of any updates due to compatibility reasons. Thanks to Dave … Continue reading

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The File Logging Plugin for Selenium IDE v1.7 Released

The version 1.7 of my File Logging plugin for Selenium IDE is now available on the Firefox addons site. This version brings a bunch of user experience improvements and major internal improvements. This version saves the current log level for the … Continue reading

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A Quick Introduction to CSS Locators in Selenium

While writing my recent posts on alternate locators, locator builders and Seleninum plugin API, I skipped over a truely basic question. What is a CSS locator in Selenium? It seems that some people are still looking for the answer(tm)! As you already … 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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Learn Alternate Locators Using Selenium IDE

A locator in Selenium is a means of identifying an element for the selenium command. Usually it is the target part of the command. Did you know that when recording with the Selenium IDE, sometimes the target textbox changes into … Continue reading

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The Stored Variables Viewer Plugin for Selenium IDE v1.3 Released

The new version of my Stored Variables Viewer plugin for Selenium IDE has been uploaded to the Firefox addons site. This version bring user experience improvements, added functionality and internal improvements. Thanks to Paul Grandjean for helpful comments on the first version. Once … Continue reading

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