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.
Comments
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.
Posted by: Mr Latty at July 7, 2008 6:39 AM