COTT locator's plugin
In this documentation, you will learn about:
- 🆙 How to install COTT locator's plugin
- 👐🏻 How easy it is to interact with COTT locator's plugin
- 📁 How to collect the first list of locators
- 🎯 Compatibility
We all know how laborious the process of collecting locators is.
That is why we have found a solution for you.
The COTT locator plugin is a tool for collecting locators that will make UI testing automation more efficient and easier to use, the COTT locator plugin will significantly speed up your QA work, which will allow you to cover the necessary functionality with tests in a short period of time
COTT locator’s plugin- a tool that is an integral part of every QA specialist who uses the COTT
COTT locator’s plugin- a tool that will help you collect locators from a page in 2 clicks and immediately use them in your test script
COTT locator’s plugin- an automated tool for collecting locators that speeds up the UI testing process at times, and allows your QA team to work more productively
Installation requirements:
- Recommended node version 14.17.0
- Windows
- MacOs
- Google Chrome Browser
- To install the plugin locally, click on clone plugin
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After successfully cloning the project, you need to UP the plugin from the master branch by running the following commands in the project terminal:
for users using node version 14.17.0
npm i- installing NPM packages Runs the NPM install command to install the version of the packages listed in package.json
npm run build- deploys the plugin locally on your machine
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for users using a newer version of node
npm i --legacy-peer-deps- yhe command will install the required packages without dependency conflicts
npm run build- deploys the plugin locally on your machine
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After successfully deploying the plugin, you need to:
- Then open your chromium-based browser and go to the extensions
chrome://extensions/
- Enable Developer mode
- Click on
Load unpacked
- Specify the path to the build folder created by the build script, find the
locator-collector-pluginfolder in the system and pave the path to thebuildfolder
- Pin COTT plugin
Close the extensions tab and restart your browser. Now you can extract your pages to XML!
'To see how to install COTT Locator's Plugin, click on the running line'The plugin is an integral part of our COTT as it is based on XML and fully conforms to the XSD schema structure we are using in our test scripts and files for storing locators
Plugin Structure:
- Page Name
- Page Description
- Find element by text
- Extraction Targets
- Extraction Area
- Extraction Selector
- Extract button
- Download XML button
Page Name - the plugin detects which page of the site it is on by the URL and automatically substitutes this value into the name - which it uses to create the XML file when it is generated
Page Description - This is a required parameter in the structure of the locator.xml file
If the user did not specify this value when collecting locators, then the plugin will substitute the default value for the description, which can be changed
Find element by text - The plugin can collect locators by text.
To do this, you need to specify in this field any text value that is on the current page, and the plugin will collect the locator for all text matches
For a more precise search, we recommend that you specify the full text name of the element you want to collect
Extraction Targets - a multiselector that distributes the collection of locators by type:
linksinputsformstextareasbuttons
It is also possible to select all using the button: Select all
This feature will allow you to more accurately collect locators
Extraction Area - has a default value of all
This function allows you to split the collecting of locators into certain parts of the page:
headermainfooter
Extraction Selector - has a default value of all
This function will allow you to split the search for locators into elements:
idclassxpath
If you use the default all, then the default plugin will collect locators in order of precedence from id to xpath
Extract button - button to apply search by selected filters
Download XML button - button for downloading the generated XML file with locators
when you click on this button, the plugin prompts you to choose a location to store the file, which allows you to save the file directly to the project structure, the pages folder where the element locators are stored
After saving the generated XML - you get a ready-made set of locators that by default have the structure of the
<locators>tag - which simplifies the use and speeds up the process After collecting the locators, you can immediately use them in your test scenario, without any extra edits
'To see how to collect locators, click on the running line'- MacOs
- Windows
