Dear Selenium IDE’s users, It was a bad news for the tester community since Selenium IDE no long works from Firefox 55 onwards. Selenium IDE is one of the most widely used automated testing tools ever, this stop, therefore, raises a high demand in looking for other Selenium IDE alternatives. Below are some potential successors of Selenium IDE. But first, let’s go back to the old days of this excellent solution.
The viable Selenium IDE alternatives 3.1. Robot framework: Pros: – Test cases are generated using keyword testing methodology written in a tabular format. – It also contains Robot Integrated Development Environment (RIDE), which helps write test cases easily by offering framework specific code completion, syntax highlighting, so on. Cons: – The complex installation, the lack of standalone test recorder tool, and a keyword-driven language with a low level of descriptiveness. 3.2. Protractor: Pros: – Simple installation and updating. Within 1-2 command, both testing framework and Selenium WebDriver will be installed nicely. – The use of JavaScript, one of the easiest-to-use programming languages to learn, especially for those to have limited programming background. Cons: – Protractor is too flexible but also unprepared. It requires experienced developers to get involved before the team can start on it: set up the project and the proper reporting plugin, and write Page Object scaffold. – The Protractor team may mess with sync/async stuffs. 3.3. Katalon Studio Pros: – Installation experience: users just need to unzip the package and they are ready to start. No programming language runtime. No extra components or plugins required. – The scripting interface allows users to switch between a keyword-base table and a code editor. This is extremely useful for those who want to learn to write Selenium test case on their own. – Unlike Selenium IDE, the recording capability of Katalon Studio is powerful on major web browsers: Chrome, Firefox, and IE. – Katalon Studio can be considered a viable Selenium IDE alternatives since it provides other convenient functions (reporting and integration) which are competitive to paid solutions (UFT, TestComplete). Cons: – While web and mobile testing are very comprehensive, some users may want to see more build-out in API testing module. Read more: Best Selenium automation testing tools review: Robot Framework vs Katalon Studio. Conclusion: Selenium and Selenium IDE have been great pieces of technology that critically changed the automation testing history. Although Selenium IDE is no longer active, I believe great developers will keep working on good Selenium IDE alternatives and make software testing much better every day.
2 Comments
|