Sunday, 23 February 2014

Part 2: Difference between Selenium IDE and WebDriver

Choices, choices, choices...

With such a large variety of choices available to us in the QA world, this article will help to make the decision on choosing which solution is appropriate for your test environment.

Let's take a look at the basic differences between Selenium IDE and Selenium WebDriver.

Selenium IDE

- Great for beginners and testing novices
- Easy to use record and playback capabilities
- Can quickly create low to medium complexity automated tests
- Can only be used on FireFox as it is an addon

Selenium WebDriver

- Great for intermediate to advanced levels
- Requires a greater level of configuration to set up a test environment
- Can be used to create highly complex automated tests
- Can be used to automate a large variety of web browsers

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