Codeless Tool Overview within the Open-Source Landscape

In this lesson, we’ll cover the leading codeless testing tools that are available and supported for free within the open-source testing frameworks.

Open-source codeless tool lineup

Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and even Puppeteer provide a level of codeless testing abilities through recording and playing back the test scenarios.

Let’s look at a brief overview of codeless open-source tools, starting with Selenium.

Selenium IDE codeless tool overview

Selenium offers a browser plugin, Selenium IDE, which is a basic record-and-playback solution to help new users get started with the technology. The evolution of this IDE has led to it being a multibrowser extension (Chrome and Firefox) with a built-in element locator tool and a nice recorder with export-to-code abilities. It isn’t even close to the capabilities of a codeless AI-based testing tool but provides an entry-level option to Selenium.

With the Selenium IDE browser extension, we can begin recording a test scenario against our web application immediately, as illustrated in the following screenshot: