Run Selenium IDE recorded tests with Automate

A step-by-step guide to running Selenium IDE recorded tests with BrowserStack Automate

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Selenium IDE is one of the most popular record and playback tools for automating your tests. You can run them later with your favorite choice of language. BrowserStack provides a way to automate those tests on different devices and combinations.

This guide will help you:

• Integrate Selenium IDE with BrowserStack
  • Introduction
  • Getting started with Selenium IDE
  • Recording and saving the tests
  • Running tests on BrowserStack

Getting started with Selenium IDE

Follow the below steps to download and install Selenium IDE and Selenium IDE command line runner:

1. Download Selenium IDE for your preferred browser as shown in the following figure:
   
   

   

2. Install the Selenium IDE command line runner by executing the following command:

   npm install -g selenium-side-runner
   

   For more details, refer documentation for SeleniumHQ’s command line runner

Recording and saving the tests

Follow the below steps to record and save test using the Selenium IDE:

1. Click on the Selenium IDE icon appearing next to the address bar.
2. Click on Create a new project, assign a name to the project.

3. Click on the REC button, provide the URL of the application under test. For example, https://google.com, click on StartRecording. Record the Selenium test with the help of Selenium IDE as shown in the following figure:
   
   

4. Perform all the actions to be tested on the application. After completing all actions, click on Stop recording.
5. Save the test as BrowserStack-Selenium-test.side as shown in the following figure:
   
   

Running tests on BrowserStack

Follow the below steps to execute the test on BrowserStack Automate:

1. Create a .side.yml file in the same folder where the BrowserStack-Selenium-test.side file is saved. Configure your Selenium test for desktop and mobile browsers by adding the capabilities and server in the .side.yml file as shown below:

# this is how your .side.yml should look like
capabilities:
    browserName: "Chrome"
    browserVersion: '107.0'
    'bstack:options':
      os: "Windows"
      osVersion: '10'
      resolution: '1024x768'
      sessionName: 'Selenium IDE automate W3C Desktop'
      buildName: 'Selenium IDE automate W3C Desktop'
      projectName: 'Selenium IDE automate W3C Desktop'
      debug: true
      consoleLogs: "verbose"
      networkLogs: true
server: "https://YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_ACCESS_KEY@hub-cloud.browserstack.com/wd/hub"

# this is how your .side.yml should look like
capabilities:
    browserName: "safari"
    'bstack:options':
      deviceName: 'iPhone 14 Pro Max'
      osVersion: '16.0'
      sessionName: 'Selenium IDE automate W3C Mobile'
      buildName: 'Selenium IDE automate W3C Mobile'
      projectName: 'Selenium IDE automate W3C Mobile'
      debug: true
      consoleLogs: "verbose"
      networkLogs: true
server: "https://YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_ACCESS_KEY@hub-cloud.browserstack.com/wd/hub"

1. You can execute tests on multiple OS and browser combinations. Check out the list of supported browsers and Operating Systems. As an example, to execute the test on OS X Catalina on Safari 13, add the following capabilities:
   • browserName: Safari
   • browser_version: 13.0
   • os: OS X
   • os_version: Catalina

2. Run the selenium test on BrowserStack by running the following command in the same directory.

    selenium-side-runner BrowserStack-Selenium-test.side
   

   It will run the test on BrowserStack Automate, and you can monitor the test in real-time on the Automate dashboard.