Abstract— Automatedsoftware testing is the best way to increase the effectiveness, efficiency andcoverage of software testing. Automation testing requires considerable amountof investment for buying the software & compatible hardware resources.Automation testing does what manual testing does not. Automation testingimproves the accuracy & it saves the time of the tester &organization’s money. Automation testing is best suited in the environmentwhere the requirements are frequently changing & huge amount of regressiontesting is required to be performed. Selenium IDE is an integrated developmentenvironment for Selenium scripts. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, andallows you to record, edit, and debug tests. It was previously known asSelenium Recorder. Selenium IDE is not only recording tool: it is a completeIDE.
Keywords: Automated Test Lifecycle Methodology(ATLM), Automated Software Testing (AST), Manual Testing (MT)