Review of Selenium IDE - web developer power tool

It's amazing how when you're developing it is possible to over look some tools. This is what happened with Selenium IDE. I used this Firefox Extension a couple of years ago on a big project we were doing which had loads of forms. After the project ended I stopped using it.

Until today that is when I needed something to remember the data I have been entering to test the data management site I've been working on. As it is a tedious manual process Selenium has been invaluable in ensuring I get the right combination of data to reproduce any errors.

What's more it is simple to repeat the test or generate new ones. Even better still is the ability to generate Unit Tests based on the data you enter into the form. This is on serious piece of kit for the serious developer. The recorded key presses can be edited, annotated and saved so adding them to bug reports is a cinch!

I'm not going to forget Selenium again. I'm going to learn more about it and use it as much as possible.