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I'd be curious to see what the usage stats on the IDE are; my company (Mozilla, ironically) uses Selenium a ton, but as far as I know we write all of our tests

by Osmose 9y ago

I'd be curious to see what the usage stats on the IDE are; my company (Mozilla, ironically) uses Selenium a ton, but as far as I know we write all of our tests by hand instead of with the IDE since it allows you to use patterns like Page objects to make your tests more maintainable in the long run. Although the last time I used the IDE was years ago, so it may be more flexible than it used to be. Does anyone extensively use the IDE?

29052017 9y ago
Fuck yeah
pjmlp 9y ago
Back when I was using it (about 4 years ago), we used it mostly as a debugging aid to understand what actually should go into some expressions. Also some people from QA, without coding skills, would use it.
unexistance 9y ago
previous company used it quite extensively, especially if there's a new feature the enterprise software that needs testing by the QA team we did write the test by hand tho, very DSL-like & really targeted at non-programmer
neves 9y ago
This is the great feature of the Ide. Kick start your tests, then you "upgrade" to hand coding. Great for learning about a new system, or to get help from less technical people when the house is on fire.
masklinn 9y ago
IDE is a good way to kickstart the tests, it allows non-technical people to create skeletons for tests which can then be touched up/prettified/refactored by devs.
- slgt 9y ago
  This describes exactly my/our experience. Test recording can be a great time saver when used properly. Sure, a Java or Python guru can write a webdriver test in "seconds", but she usually does not want too. Plus the "seconds" often turn into hours of coding and debugging ;-)
z3t4 9y ago
I didn't know this existed. I always write the tests in JS using .click() .focus() etc.
romaniv 9y ago
We started to adapt Selenium IDE to allow people who don't have extensive coding backgrounds to automate manual testing they're already doing. It provided massive time savings when used properly. This news will likely completely kill the initiative.

by Osmose 9y ago

29052017 9y ago

Fuck yeah

pjmlp 9y ago

Back when I was using it (about 4 years ago), we used it mostly as a debugging aid to understand what actually should go into some expressions. Also some people from QA, without coding skills, would use it.

unexistance 9y ago

previous company used it quite extensively, especially if there's a new feature the enterprise software that needs testing by the QA team we did write the test by hand tho, very DSL-like & really targeted at non-programmer

neves 9y ago

This is the great feature of the Ide. Kick start your tests, then you "upgrade" to hand coding. Great for learning about a new system, or to get help from less technical people when the house is on fire.

masklinn 9y ago

IDE is a good way to kickstart the tests, it allows non-technical people to create skeletons for tests which can then be touched up/prettified/refactored by devs.

slgt 9y ago
This describes exactly my/our experience. Test recording can be a great time saver when used properly. Sure, a Java or Python guru can write a webdriver test in "seconds", but she usually does not want too. Plus the "seconds" often turn into hours of coding and debugging ;-)

z3t4 9y ago

I didn't know this existed. I always write the tests in JS using .click() .focus() etc.

romaniv 9y ago

We started to adapt Selenium IDE to allow people who don't have extensive coding backgrounds to automate manual testing they're already doing. It provided massive time savings when used properly. This news will likely completely kill the initiative.