Installation of Selenium IDE & FireBug

Selenium is a free (open source) automated testing suite for web applications across different browsers and platforms.

The following are the components of Selenium:

Selenium Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Selenium Remote Control (RC)

WebDriver

Selenium Grid

In selenium 1.0, there is a concept called Selenium RC, but in selenium 2.0, that Selenium RC & WebDriver are merged together.

Selenium IDE:

Selenium IDE(Integrated Development Environment), also called as SIDE, the language which is used in SIDE is called as “Selenece”.

Commands of Selenece:

Selenece commands are of three types

1. Actions
2. Accessors
3. Assertions

These commands are used to generate script in selenium IDE, in order to identify elements in the web page need to use locators with these commands.

Locators:

Locators are used to identify the HTML element that the command refers to.

• id=id Used to find the element with the specified "id" attribute.
  
• name=name Select the first element with the specified "name" attribute
  
• dom=javascriptExpression Selenium finds an element by evaluating the specified string that allows us to traverse through the HTML Document Object Model using JavaScript. Users cannot return a value but can evaluate as an expression in the block.
  
• xpath=xpathExpression Locate an element using an XPath expression.
  
• link=textPattern Select the link element (within anchor tags) which contains text matching the specified pattern.
  
• css=cssSelectorSyntax Select the element using css selector.
  

Installation of Selenium IDE:

Selenium IDE is an add on of Mozilla Firefox Browser, It works only when Firefox browser is active.

Before installing Selenium IDE, you must have an active internet connection also.

Install Mozilla Firefox from the following URL: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new

Install Selenium IDE with following steps:

Launch Firefox and navigate to the following link → http://seleniumhq.org/download/

When you click on this link, a pop up will come like below.

Click on “Allow” to accept security terms, next it will pop up below window.

After completion of total download, it can show below pop up.

Finally click on “Restart Now” to complete installation, and Firefox will restart.

When you Restart firefox, an icon of SIDE will appear at the top right corner of firefox browser window. Just click on that icon to launch Selenium IDE.

You can see a window like below, That is Selenium IDE.

 

Installation of FireBug

We have two types of Firebugs. One is FireBug and another one is FireBug Lite.

FireBug: It is an add on of Firefox, It can be useful to Inspect the Elements of the Web Application under test. That can be like below.

To launch FireBug, just press F12, it will pop up FireBug.

FireBugLite: It is an add on of Chrome Browser.

Process to install FireBug:

Goto https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/, and type firebug then press enter.

Click on “Add to Firefox”, to install firebug.

Finally, it will show a pop up, on that click on Install to complete installation.

Then Firefox will restarts, then you can find firebug at the top right corner of the Firefox Browser.