Selenium IDE ·

[WIP] An integrated development environment for Selenium scripts

Introduction

This project is a work in progress, a complete rewrite of the old Selenium IDE. The older IDE was a Firefox extension that relied heavily on APIs that are no longer supported by newer versions of Firefox. In this project, the IDE is developed as a modern browser extension, supporting both Chrome and Firefox and other modern browsers (in theory).

As this is an early stage and many things aren't clear, it's quite challenging to collaborate and coordinate the efforts - so please be patient.

We are using SideeX as a start point. The SideeX team was kind enough to let us use their work.

Installation

Pre-packaged

Prerequisites

git has to be in $PATH for the installation to pass
yarn npm might work as well (untested)
peru

Building

Install the dependencies peru sync
yarn or if using Node 10 yarn --ignore-engines
Build the extension
yarn build:ext or yarn build:ext:prod for production build
Install as developer on Google Chrome or Firefox

Manifest located in <Project Directory>/packages/selenium-ide/build/manifest.json

What now?

Here's a draft of the general tasks ahead. Feel free to pitch in and announce which you wish to take upon yourself:

Extension UI - SeIDE users should feel right at home
Selectors accuracy - an option is ranking selectors - we can optimize selectors correctness and test stability by collecting as many attributes as we can per user event. The most likely properties will be used for the selectors, with fallback to the others.
Intelligent editing
Export to selenium code in different languages
Playback in a way that's consistent with web drivers
Open for extensions

Want to chat?

We coordinate work on the #selenium IRC channel, which is also available on Slack.

jesg/selenium-ide