Use Selenium? Use XPath Checker.
Just a quick note if you are using Selenium to do your tests, and writing your own, you've probably had to write some XPath expressions. I had to write a particularly hard XPath string and got tired of trying to test my XPath expression in Selenium over and over again.
I did some quick Google searching and discovered a Firefox plug-in named XPath Checker. It works two ways:
- It allows you to write an XPath expression and see what it returns.
- It allows you to click on piece of a page and see an XPath expression that would find it
It rocks.
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Thanks for the tip on the X-path checker, it has saved me so much time and most of all frustration. I will keep coming back to check for the great tips. Thanks so much, Abby
New plugin for my firefox :) Thank you Ryan for this issue.
I think as good as XPath Checker is XPather Browser, aslo a plugin for Firefox. It gives the entire path from /html to what ever element your using. I'm a Java developer, writing selenium tests for a web application. And I can tell you this: My dream team(tools) is: -Selenium IDE(whom can convert in Java, Ruby); -XPath Checker; -XPather browser; -Firebug.
Paul.
I think as good as XPath Checker is XPather Browser, aslo a plugin for Firefox.
FINALLY. This plugin is great. I'm trying to use Selenium to test a Wicket app. Wicket helpfully makes up its own dynamic markup ids so I'm having to use xpath for EVERYTHING. And I need the absolute path so XPather is perfect. Cheers.
Yes..Xpath checker is great, but sometimes Selenium doesn't recognize some valid XPaths.I don't know if it's because some bug with Remote Control or because I should run RC in other mode. (I'm running it in interactive mode). Any ideas?
In it's most basic use, you can use the Selenium firefox plugin to "record" a test and then play it back. In it's more complex form.
Posted by: Mr Latty at July 7, 2008 6:39 AM