Selenium Helper Tools & Addons
Firefox Add-ons
• Firefox Add-ons allows to extend the functionality of the Firefox browser.
• Large selection of add-ons available.
• Read the reviews and choose what you need the most.
• I have selected many add-ons which will enhance your learning of Selenium IDE testing.
• These Add-ons make your life easier by doing the expected jobs within your browser, instead of looking for an answer outside.
DOM Inspector
• Document Object Model (DOM) Inspector is a tool that can be used to inspect and edit the live DOM of any web document or XUL (XML User Interface Language) application.
• The DOM hierarchy can be navigated using a two-paned window that allows for a variety of different views on the document and all nodes within.
• This add-on depends on binary changes to Firefox, and will not work with Firefox 2.
• Inspects the structure and properties of a window and its contents.
• URL to Add:
– https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6622
X-Path Checker
• An interactive editor for XPath expressions.
• Choose ‘View XPath’ in the context menu and it will show the editor.
• You can edit the XPath expression and it incrementally updates the results.
• URL to Add:
Firebug
• Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
• Firebug 1.2 requires Firefox 3. Firefox 2 users should install the older 1.05 version of Firebug.
• URL to Add:
– https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
Venkman – JavaScript Debugger
• Venkman is the code name for Mozilla’s JavaScript Debugger.
• Venkman aims to provide a powerful JavaScript debugging environment for Mozilla based browsers.
• URL to Add:
– https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/216
Web Developer
• Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
• URL to Add:
– https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
Regular Expressions Tester
• Allows you to test regular expressions. The tool includes options like case sensitive, global and multi-line search, color highlighting of found expressions and of special characters, a replacement function incl. back references, auto-closing of brackets, testing while writing and saving and managing of expressions..
• URL to Add:
– https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2077
XPather
• XPath generator, editor, inspector and simple extraction tool. Since FF3, it requires DOM inspector plug-in .
• URL to Add:
– https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1192
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