Why Selenium IDE is Not Used for Dynamic Website Testing

Selenium IDE is not used for dynamic testing. It can be used for a quick solution for a simple automation scenario, but not for developing an entire regression suite. The reasons for doing so are listed below −

• Selenium IDE is a Firefox plugin and hence mostly compatible with only Firefox browser.

• Selenium IDE is majorly used for prototyping purpose and can be used to automate static web pages only. There can be multiple issues if we try to test a dynamic page with Selenium IDE.

• Instead of Selenium IDE, Selenium webdriver can be used since it provides a programming interface to identify elements and perform actions on them while creating a test case.

• Selenium IDE is mostly used for its record and play feature and not to automate a dynamic website having complex automation scenarios.

• Selenium IDE does not assist object oriented programming.

• The elements can be identified only with absolute xpath in Selenium IDE.

• In case of a dynamic webpage, we may have to handle multiple navigations, alerts, pop-ups and so on. All these cannot be handled with Selenium IDE.

• Mouse and keyboard movements cannot be performed with Selenium IDE.

• Selenium IDE does not have the ability to support listeners.

• Selenium IDE cannot be adopted for the cross-browser testing.