Selenium IDE stands for Selenium Integrated Development Environment. It is a Browser plugin which helps testers to recorded their actions and then export them as a reusable script in one of many programming languages. Selenium IDE has a recording feature, that provides an easy-to-use interface for developing automated tests.

Selenium IDE was developed by Shinya Kasatani. Selenium IDE became a part of Selenium Package in the year 2006. Then tool becomes a great value and potential to the community.

Selenium IDE is the most simplest and easiest of all the tools within the Selenium Package. The record and playback feature makes it exceptionally easy to learn with minimal knowledge of any programming language. The disadvantages of IDE are in reality not disadvantages, but just limitations to what the IDE could achieve. These limitations can be overcome by using Selenium RC or WebDriver.

Advantages :

• Selenium IDE is very easy to use.
• It has the capability to convert the test to different programming languages such as Html, java, etc..
• Programming language experience is not required for Selenium IDE.
• Selenium IDE provides Logging capabilities using the file login plug-in.
• In Selenium IDE, user can debug and set breakpoints.
• Selenium IDE is flexible for the users.

Disadvantage :

• Selenium IDE is a Browser plugin, thus its support is limited to Browsers only.
• It will not support iteration and conditional statements.
• Selenium IDE doesn’t support error handling.
• Doesn’t support test script grouping.
• Selenium IDE does not support Database testing.