Why I Created a Selenium Recorder But Rarely Use it myself?

Zhimin Zhan
2 min readFeb 16, 2021

I am against using recorders for test automation, except for two situations:

  1. Training

“Selenium IDE is the place to start with Selenium, but it is Selenium on training wheels” — Jason Huggins, the creator of Selenium v1 at AAFTT Workshop 2009

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Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.