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What is Selenium IDE ?

The following are the four Selenium Automation tools - 1) Selenium IDE 2) Selenium RC 3) Selenium WebDriver 4) Selenium Grid Selenium IDE  is a firefox extension which is used to record the tests like recording a video and playback the recorded tests like playing a video. Using Selenium IDE we can create Selenium Automation Code without writing the code instead the code gets generated automatically when we record the tests using Selenium IDE . Where as with Selenium RC and Selenium WebDriver tools we need to write the code ourselves. We use Selenium RC and Selenium WebDriver to write automation scripts for complex projects where as Selenium IDE can only be used to automate simple projects. Can we ignore Selenium IDE as we can automate all our tests using Selenium 1 and Selenium 2 ? No, you cannot ignore Selenium IDE. It is the only selenium tool which has record and playback feature.Selenium 1 and Selenium 2 don't have this feature. We can use Selenium IDE to automate s...