A few days ago, I had a great idea to use Selenium IDE as automation tool for a brief demo. It would be a quick overview of a new set up in AWS, just to show that it works as well as it does already in other environments. I recorded a quick script in Selenium IDE, set the pause of three to five seconds between actions and timed execution for 90 seconds. It went great. When it was my turn, I hooked up the laptop to the main conference room screen, and started the Selenium IDE script, then minimized the pop up in Firefox. I stood by the screen pointing out the items that were being shown, the pages, clicks, forms populated, the correct URLs and what not. It went great and was perfectly on time. Actually it went so smooth, people though it was not live, but PowerPoint. Also, nothing was missed as the steps were previously though out well.
I think I will use this in future as well.