Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by slgt » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 2:56 AM UTC

Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE
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Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by t0mbstone » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 5:26 AM UTC

Wow, that's really sad to hear!

I wonder if, instead of abandoning the project, they could put together a patron sponsorship to fund further development?

I'm sure there are plenty of companies out there that rely on firefox and selenium and would be more than happy to help contribute?

Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by hardwaresofton » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 5:37 AM UTC

I wonder if there's anyone here from SauceLabs or or any other company that does browser automation as a service -- was this easy to see coming? Is everything pants-on-fire there at the moment?

Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by Osmose » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 5:40 AM UTC

I'd be curious to see what the usage stats on the IDE are; my company (Mozilla, ironically) uses Selenium a ton, but as far as I know we write all of our tests by hand instead of with the IDE since it allows you to use patterns like Page objects to make your tests more maintainable in the long run. Although the last time I used the IDE was years ago, so it may be more flexible than it used to be.

Does anyone extensively use the IDE?

Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 5:42 AM UTC

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Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by neerajdotname2 » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 5:43 AM UTC

hardwaresofton wrote: post #3

I wonder if there's anyone here from SauceLabs or or any other company that does browser automation as a service -- was this easy to see coming? Is everything pants-on-fire there at the moment?

We at http://www.trinityradar.com/ provide browser automation service. We stopped working with Firefox a few months ago since less and less people are using firefox now. We run chrome browser on cloud. Full disclosure: I work for Trinity Radar.

Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by snowl » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 5:45 AM UTC

Of course, Selenium (WebDriver) still works. However, this might be the push for people to investigate other test frameworks. I found TestCafe by DevExpress (https://devexpress.github.io/testcafe/) is a great tool and is also completely open source (MIT!). It's a shame that the community is so small because it's so powerful. Maybe this might be the push that moves some more people over?

Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by fulafel » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 5:46 AM UTC

What are some good open source tools in the area of rapid development ofweb end-to-end tests?

I know about Robot Framework, which does not record and replay but instead uses an AppleScript type english-flavoured DSL. But still seems quicker than scripting Selenium.

Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by 29052017 » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 5:50 AM UTC

Osmose wrote: post #4

I'd be curious to see what the usage stats on the IDE are; my company (Mozilla, ironically) uses Selenium a ton, but as far as I know we write all of our tests by hand instead of with the IDE since it allows you to use patterns like Page objects to make your tests more maintainable in the long run. Although the last time I used the IDE was years ago, so it may be more flexible than it used to be. Does anyone extensiv…

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Re: Firefox 55 and Selenium IDE

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Post by jph » Mon, Aug 21, 2017, 5:51 AM UTC

Selenium IDE is a tremendous help for projects that want integration testing, and want to enable any team member to write ballpark tests.

Selenium IDE saved us hundreds or thousands of hours.

For example, my team took an existing web app with no tests, and had the project manager and junior business analysis go through the entire app with the Selenium IDE, writing tests.

This enabled our dev team to start coding fast, and refactoring fast.

In parallel our QA team then took those tests and used them as first-drafts to create even better tests that were generic, maintainable, randomizable, and so forth.