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Limitations of using selenium IDE

There are some limitations of using selenium IDE. The limitations can be overcome by using RC or Web driver. These are not disadvantages, but just limitations to what the IDE could achieve.

  1. It is not possible to perform regression testing. The recorded scripts can't be executed on the new build if the application is           dynamically changing. 

  2. We can't perform retesting of the application. Test the login functionality with multiple sets of different credentials. Test the one way search functionality with multiple sets of origin. 

  3. Static testing like checking the availability of the fields (validation) is not possible to perform. 

  4. We can’t perform database testing 

  5. It is limited to firefox and chrome browser only. 

  6. It won't provide the detailed test report or build status report for the analysis. 

  7. It will not support iteration and conditional testing. 

  8. Selenium IDE doesn't support error handling 

 

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