The Selenium IDE does come in handy from time to time, when writing Selenium test scripts, as it can give you an initial idea of what the script should look like. However, it poses considerable maintenance problems in the medium to long term: the scripts end up containing a large amount of duplication, they do not support data-driven testing well, and the recorded XPath expressions are often sub-optimal for real-world web applcations. In fact, Selenese scripts should really never be used for serious test scripting of non-trivial real-world applications.
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