How To Create Test Suites

Test Suites

We have managed to create a number of tests using Selenium IDE and have managed to run

them successfully. The next thing to have a look at is how to create a test suite, so that we

can open the test suite and then have it run a number of tests that we have created.

1. Click New Test Case.

2. You will see that Selenium IDE has opened a new area on the left of the IDE as

shown in the following screenshot:

You can do this as many times as you want and when the Play entire test suite button is

clicked it will run all the tests in the test suite. It will log all the passes and failures at the

bottom of the Test Case box.

To Save this, click on the File menu and then click Save Test Suite and save the Test Suite file

to somewhere that you can get to again. One thing to note is that saving a test suite does not

save the test case. Make sure that you save the test case every time you make a change and

not just the test suite.

To change the name of the test case to something a lot more meaningful you can do this by

right-clicking on the test and clicking on the Properties item in the context menu:

You can now add meaningful names to your tests and they will appear in Selenium IDE

instead of falling back to their filenames.

We have managed to create our first test suite. This can be used to group tests together to

be used later. If your tests have been saved, you can update the test suite properties to give

the tests a name that is easier to read.