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Selenium IDE vs SlimerJS

A side-by-side look at Selenium IDE and SlimerJS. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Selenium IDE

Selenium IDE

Development

Selenium IDE is an open-source Chrome and Firefox browser extension for creating and running automated web application UI tests. It allows users to record interactions with web apps to generate test scripts that can be exported and used with Selenium WebDriver.

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SlimerJS

SlimerJS

Development

SlimerJS is a scriptable browser for web scraping and testing, similar to PhantomJS, based on Gecko and Firefox. It provides a JavaScript API for controlling a browser to load pages, extract content, run tests, take screenshots, etc.

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