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Selenium IDE vs Watir

A side-by-side look at Selenium IDE and Watir. 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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Watir

Watir

Development

Watir is an open-source Ruby library for automating web browsers. It drives browsers the same way people do, enabling testing and scripting of web applications. Watir supports IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera.

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