Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

Using browser tools for inspecting elements and page structure

Before we start exploring locators, we need to analyze the page and elements to understand how these are structured in the application, what properties or attributes are defined for the elements, how JavaScript or AJAX calls are made from the application, and so on.

Browsers render visual elements of the application for end users by hiding the HTML code and other resources. When we want to automate interaction with the application using Selenium WebDriver, we need to look carefully at the background code written to render pages and elements in browsers. We need to identify information such as attribute values and elements structure for locating elements and perform user actions using ...