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Selenium Locators – Installing and using MRI in Internet Explorer

Selenium Locators – Installing and using MRI in Internet Explorer

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As explained in one of the previous posts, Firebug and Firepath add-ons for locating and validating the UI elements on the page got deprecated and discontinued and we have to use alternative add-ons in place of Firebug and Firepath.

Though ChroPath is the best alternative of Firebug & Firepath in locating the UI elements and validating the XPath Expressions & CSS Selectors, we can also use MRI in Internet Explorer browser to validating the XPath Expressions and CSS Selectors.

Note: MRI is only available in the Internet Explorer browser and can only be used for validating the XPath Expressions and CSS Selectors.

In this article, I am going to practically demonstrate validating XPath Expressions and CSS Selectors using the MRI in Internet Explorer.

Let’s get started.

Selenium Locators – Installing and using MRI in Internet Explorer

Follow the below steps for validating XPath Expressions and CSS Selectors using MRI in Internet Explorer browser:

1) Open Internet Explorer browser, right-click on the tabs bar and select to show ‘Favourites bar’ as shown below:

MRI IE - Favorites bar

 

2) Observe that the ‘Favorites bar’ will be displayed as shown below:

MRI IE - Displayed

3) Navigate to http://westciv.com/mri/ as shown below:

MRI IE - Navigate westciv mri

4) Drag and drop the ‘MRI’ button on to the ‘Favourites bar’ as shown below:

MRI IE - Drag Drop

5) Click the ‘Yes’ button on the ‘Do you want to add this bookmark?’ dialog as shown below:

MRI IE - Yes

6) Observe that ‘MRI’ bookmark got added to the ‘Favourites bar’ as shown below:

MRI IE - Added

7) Navigate to any application URL say http://omayo.blogspot.com/ as shown below:

MRI IE - Open App

8) Click on the ‘MRI’ in the Favorites bar to launch it as shown below:

MRI IE - Launched

9) Let’s validate an XPath Expression using MRI.

Enter an XPath Expression say //input[@name=’q’] into the MRI text field, click on ‘MRI’ button and observe that the ‘search’ text field on the application will be highlighted as shown below:

MRI IE - XPath Validated

10) Similarly, Let’s validate a CSS Selector using MRI.

Enter a CSS Selector say #but2 into the MRI text field, click on ‘MRI’ button and observe that the ‘Button2’ button on the application will be highlighted as shown below:

MRI IE - CSS Validated

Here concludes this article.

In the next article, I will explain a different alternative for Firebug and Firepath.

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Happy Learning ?

About Me > Arun Motoori

On a mission to contribute to the Software Testing Community in all possible ways.

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