Inportant: If you previously had Selenium IDE installed in Firefox 3.0, you will need to un-install and re-install the latest version for it to work with Firefox 3.5.

Step 1.

From within Firefox, choose Tools then Add-Ons, then Selenium IDE

The following pop-up window will be shown:

Note the red ‘record’ button to the top right of the window. This indicates that Selenium IDE is in recording mode, and that all interaction with Firefox will be recorded.

Step 2.

Enter the URL of the script you want to record (http://portal.cloudtesting.com/ in this case).

Step 3.

Paste the same URL into the address bar in Firefox and press enter.

Step 4.

Interact with the website as required. This can include clicking on links, entering text into fields and clicking buttons.

In this example, we will type the username and password, then click the Login button.

The following information will then be captured, and shown in the Selenium IDE window:

Carry on interacting with the website – the commands will be captured as shown.

Note: For those of you who think you’ve spotted a back door into the Cloud Testing portal by using the username and password above, sorry but we’ve changed it. If you would like a Free Trial of the service, one is available on the Cloud Testing website.

Step 5.

Important: When you have finished capturing the script, stop the recorder, by clicking on the red circle towards the top right of the IDE window.
If you forget to stop recording, extra steps will end up being uploaded, which can be removed by editing the script later.

Step 6.

Switch to the Source tab.

Step 7.

Right click on the source, choose ‘Select All’, then select ‘Copy’.

Step 8.

Go to the ‘Add Script’ page in the Settings section of the Cloud Testing Portal.

Step 9.

Enter the name of the script, the hostname of the server, and then paste the commands into the page, before clicking on the ‘Upload’ button.

Step 10.

The script has now been uploaded and imported into the Cloud Testing service, it can now be edited or updated as required.

For more details of the features available once the script has been imported, see the Cloud Testing website.

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