How to Saving tests

Saving tests

Saving tests is done in the same manner as saving a test suite. Click on the File Menu and

then click Save Test Case. This will give you a save dialog, save this to somewhere that you

can get to it later. When you save your tests and your test suite, Selenium IDE will try to keep

the relationships between the folders in step when saving the tests and the test suites.

What you cannot record

We have seen our tests work really well by recording them and then playing them back.

Unfortunately there are a number of things that Selenium cannot do. Since Selenium was

developed in JavaScript, it tries to synthesize what the user does with JavaScript events.

Unfortunately this does mean that it is bound by the same rules that JavaScript has in any

browsers by operating within the sandbox.

‹‹ Silverlight and Flex/Flash applications, at the time of writing, cannot be recorded

with Selenium IDE. Both these technologies operate in their own sandbox and do

not operate with the DOM to do their work.

‹‹ HTML 5, at the time of writing, is not fully supported with Selenium IDE. A good

example of this is elements that have the contentEditable=true attribute. If

you want to see this, you can use the type command to type something into the

html5div element. The test will tell you that it has completed the command but

the UI will not have changed, as shown in the following screenshot:

‹‹ Selenium IDE does not work with Canvas elements on the page either so you will not

be able to make your tests move items around on a page.

‹‹ Selenium cannot do file uploads. This is due to the JavaScript sandbox not allowing

JavaScript to interact with <input type=file> elements on a page. While you

might be able to send the text to the box it will not always do what you expect,

so I would recommend not doing it.