What Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE:(Integrated development environment)

• Selenium IDE is one of the main component or part of the Selenium Automation Tool.
• Its a Plugin for Firefox Browser.
• Its a open source
• Selenium IDE is Record and Playback tool
• In IDE we have Export option to export recoded script into particular language.
• It supports multiple languages like java,python,ruby,.net etc.
• it support different platforms.
• It automates the user actions on the webpage
• Easy to Operate 
• No Need of Programming Language knowledge
• Its Implemented in HTML Language (PHP ).

Its Console Mainly divided into 3 regions

1.Command
2.Target/locators
3.Value
 
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Drawbacks:

• Its just works in Firefox alone
• Conditional like if ,while loops we can't setup in IDE
• Its contains duplicate methods leads to the user little bit confusion
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