Part 3: Setting up Selenium IDE

Okay, so now that we have a bit of information on what Selenium is and what it can be used for, we will see how to install the IDE. We will also get to see how to get the Selenium WebDriver running with Eclipse a little later in the series.

What you will need:

- FireFox Web browser
- Selenium IDE installation files


Where to get the FireFox Web browser?

a. Navigate to http://download.mozilla.org

b. Click on link above to download FireFox.
c. Go through the standard installation instructions and install FireFox.
d. Start up FireFox.

Once FireFox has started up, move on to the next section;

Installing Selenium IDE

a. From within FireFox, navigate to http://docs.seleniumhq.org/projects/ide/

b. Click on the Download Selenium link which will take you to the following page:

c. Click on the highlighted link. This is vary depending on whichever version of the IDE is available at the current time.

d. Click on Allow and then click on Install when asked to do so.

e. When the installation is completed, click on Restart Now to restart FireFox and finalise the installation of Selenium IDE.

f. When FireFox has restarted, click on the Tools menu and verify that Selenium IDE is now displayed on the menu as follows:

g. Well done! You have now successfully installed Selenium IDE on FireFox.

Stay tuned for the next article in the series where we go through basic instructions on how to use Selenium IDE.