I was setting up a laptop to start working on my upcoming Selenium presentation and entered ‘Selenium’ in the Firefox addon search box. Selenium IDE popped up and so did “Molybdenum”…
After a quick download and install:
Molybdenum is based on Selenium and enhances it with direct browser integration and a visual editor. At the same time it removes the need to deploy testscripts on the server to be tested.
It is a Firefox extension and appears to be very similar to Selenium IDE allowing you to record tests. Reading the help it seems like you can also use Molybdenum to start and run tests and maybe create reports. There is even a brief mention of using Ant.
I’m curious if anyone has heard of this or used it? I’ll post more as I work through putting together my Selenium presentation.
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Great! I haven’t used it but I’ll give it a shot soon. One of the things that’s always annoyed me was the requirement to deploy and run the tests from the server.
I have tried it and it does not seem to use the same format for storing tests as the most recent version of the Selenium core. It stores tests and test sets together as a single xml file. I have not been able to figure out how to convert the selenium tests it generates to the plain .html used by the Selenium core. It does seem to have a better User Interface than the original Selenium IDE add-on though.