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This document introduces the Qualys Browser Recorder and provides complete information on system requirements, installation and uninstallation procedures, features, and related details.

Introduction to Qualys Browser Recorder

Qualys Browser Recorder is a free browser extension to record & play back scripts for web application automation testing. Qualys Browser Recorder includes the entire Selenium Core, allowing you to capture web elements and record actions in the browser to let you generate, edit, and play back automated test cases quickly and easily. It also allows you to select a UI element from the browser’s currently displayed page and then select from a list of Selenium commands with parameters.

Let’s see how Qualys Browser Recorder evolved:

• Qualys Web Application Scanning (WAS) supported playing back scripts recorded from the old Selenium IDE Firefox extension, which broke when Firefox 55 was released.
• The scripts allow the scanner to navigate complex authentication and workflows.
• This new Chrome extension is designed to be essentially a more powerful and modern replacement for Selenium IDE.
• It’s designed to be compatible with existing scripts recorded originally from Selenium IDE.

If you are not familiar with Qualys WAS or the other security and compliance solutions offered by Qualys, feel free to try the Qualys Community Edition.

Qualys Browser Recorder Features

Qualys Browser Recorder was developed based on Web Extensions API and supports running on Chrome browser. It retains all the features of the Selenium IDE and provides numerous advanced enhancements.

• Allows you to save test case scripts in HTML format.
• Easy to use interface style and locators with target element selection.
• Supports opening, editing and running multiple test suites in one panel.
• Supports automatic triggering of test suites and processing them sequentially.

Qualys Browser Recorder Version

You can easily locate the version of Qualys Browser Recorder in the toolbar.