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Selenium Locators – Installing and using TruePath Add-on in Chrome

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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 TruePath in Chrome browser to auto-generate the XPath Expressions.

Note: TruePath add-on of chrome browser can only be used for auto-generating different XPath Expressions for the same UI element on the page.

In this article, I am going to practically demonstrate auto-generating different XPath Expressions using the TruePath chrome add-on.

Let’s get started.

Installing and using TruePath Add-on in Chrome

Follow the below steps for auto-generating the different XPath Expressions for the UI elements on the page using TruePath Add-on in Chrome browser:

1) Open Chrome browser, google search for ‘TruePath’ and click on the below link from the search results:

TruePath Chrome - Search

2) Click on the ‘Add to Chrome’ button from the Chrome Web Store page of ‘TruePath’ as shown below:

TruePath Chrome - Add to Chrome

3) Click on ‘Add Extension’ button on the displayed dialog as shown below:

TruePath Chrome - Add Extension

4) Observe that the TruePath Add-on got added to the Chrome Browser as shown below:

TruePath Chrome - Added

5) Open any application say  http://omayo.blogspot.com/ in the Chrome Browser as shown below:

TruePath Chrome - Open App

6) As TruePath Add-on is successfully installed and added to the chrome browser, we can simply get it options by right-clicking on the page.

Let’s right-click on the ‘Button2’ button and observe that we are getting the ‘Relative XPath’ option of ‘TruePath’ in the right-click menu as shown below:

TruePath Chrome - Right click options

As you can see in the above screenshot, multiple XPath Expressions are generated for the ‘Button2’ button by the ‘TruePath’ add-on. Let’s say I have felt the below XPath option is best and selected it as shown below:

TruePath Chrome - Option Selected

On selecting one of the above auto-generated XPath Expression, ‘TruePath-Home’ window with the selected XPath Expression and ‘Copy’ button will be displayed as shown below:

TruePath Chrome - Home

Click on the above ‘Copy XPath’ button to copy the auto-generated XPath Expression by the TruePath addon and use it for locating the required UI element on the web page.

Here concludes this article.

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

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About Me > Arun Motoori

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

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