Category Archives: Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE Scheduler Has Arrived – Part 6

In part 5, you learnt more about how to add more jobs, edit jobs and delete them along with the Run Now feature and the Activity log. This is the final part of this series where I talk about some … Continue reading

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Selenium IDE Scheduler Has Arrived – Part 5

In part 4, you learnt more about setting schedules using two advanced ways, viz., using the natural language processor and using cron-like expressions. In this part, I am going to walk you through the rest of the functionality in the … Continue reading

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Selenium IDE Scheduler Has Arrived – Part 4

In part 3, you learnt more about setting schedules for jobs using the schedule check boxes. In this part, I am going to show you more possibilities for setting the schedule. Open the scheduler dialog box. If you have forgotten … Continue reading

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Selenium IDE Scheduler Has Arrived – Part 3

In part 2, you created a new job and scheduled a test suite to run every 5 minutes. In this part, I am going to show you how to modify the job to be scheduled at various times. Let us … Continue reading

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Selenium IDE Scheduler Has Arrived – Part 2

Part 1 gave you a quick overview of the new Scheduler feature in Selenium IDE v2.9 along with my ramblings. In this part, I am going to show you how to work with scheduler jobs to run your test suites … Continue reading

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Selenium IDE Scheduler Has Arrived – Part 1

It is finally here! I am about to commit all the code for the scheduler and release v2.9.0 of Selenium IDE and it will be awesome contain it very own scheduler. (It is awesome, but you decide that). What exactly … Continue reading

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verifyTextPresent, typeKeys and key* – The Deprecation

Note: I wrote this post before Selenium IDE 2.4.0 was released and was not able to publish it until now. I have not made any changes. In the next version of Selenium IDE, the verifyTextPresent command and some others will … Continue reading

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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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