I just finished writing a bunch of tests with Selenium-IDE to test our UI and I feel good. While playing with Selenium-IDE you feel a pleasing sensation because it’s just the one you’re looking for.

Selenium-IDE is distributed as a simple extension to our beloved browser. After the installation you can open the program in the Tools menu and this nice interface pops up:

You can then press the red button on the right side and… that’s it! Simply click on the website you want to test and Selenium-IDE will record all your steps filling the main interface step by step.

You can playback the test case with the play button, edit using the built-in mini-DSL and then save all in HTML for a later click-and-run session. There’s something more (like the test runner) in Selenium-IDE that can help augmenting your testing experience but I’ll let it discover to you

I sadly discarded Sahi right now. Altough it seems nice it needs a separate Java daemon and the modding of the Proxy settings of the browser.