To create a Selenium test, you first create an HTML file containing a recording of browser actions that you want to test to be sure they run successfully. You create the HTML file using the Selenium IDE, a Mozilla Firefox browser add-on that you download from the web, install, and then use through the browser. You use this IDE to record actions in the browser, such as logging in to a web server product, and store them in an HTML file. You then create a Synthetic Test that plays back the recorded actions and determines whether they completed successfully.

The Selenium IDE where you record the Selenium test runs only in Mozilla Firefox and works in most versions of Mozilla Firefox.

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