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    Debugging XPath and CSS locators with Selenium IDE

    27.7.2010 | 1 minutes reading time

    On the robotframework-users mailing list was a question about how radio buttons can be properly handled with the SeleniumLibrary . There was apparently a problem somewhere in the generated xpath expression, and the user found it difficult to debug where things went wrong.

    Since I failed to explain to the user in a private e-mail conversation how to debug the situation with the selenium IDE, I made a short screencast. At the end, I had to briefly pause the cast, since I was getting close to the 5:00 restriction, but I hope you’ll catch everything.

    You’ll find the Screencast on screencast.com .

    Update: The screencast was once embedded to this page, but JING/Techsmith apprently don’t support that any longer.

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