I find firebug -> inspect DOM to be very useful for this
On Dec 12, 1:41 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> Until Tellurium TrUMP project is mature (TrUMP is a Tellurium sub-
> project to create Firefox Plugin, which will
> automatically generate UI modules for you), sometimes, you may have
> to look at the HTML source to see what the UI elements look like so
> that you can create the UI module for them. But be aware, if you use
> the view source function from the web browser, you will only see the
> static HTML source, not the actual runtime HTML source.
>
> Nowadays, a lot of web sites use Javascripts or other dynamic web
> techniques to generate dynamic Web at runtime. The static HTML source
> may be different from the runtime HTML source. If your UI modules are
> dependent on the static HTML source, your tests may not be able to
> pass.
>
> As a rule of thumb, to create Tellurium UI modules manually, you have
> to check the runtime HTML source
> for some time. The correct steps should be:
>
> Open the Web under testing -> act on the Web to bring up the portion
> of Web you want to test -> look at
> the Runtime HTML Source for that portion -> write UI modules
>
> There are couple tools that you can use for the runtime HTML Source,
> for example,
>
> 1) Firefox plugin "Web Developer", use "View generated source"
> 2) Firefox plugin "Dom Inspector", use "Copy XML" or look at each node
> 3) Firefox plugin "XPather", look at "Inner HTML"
>
> For Firefox 3, "Dom Inspector" and "XPather" are bundled together. To
> use "XPather", you need to install
> "DOM Inspector", too.
>
> There are many other addons/plugins there on Firefox website with the
> similar functionalities. Please check more details from
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
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