This tool is useful as it helps our QA engineers identify with ease the elements of the application because due to its extension to take screenshots of an element and extract different data related to the element (name, class, index, automation ID, help text, item type, role) in the same way we have all this info for the web application.
In this way, when the tool searches for an element, there is a complex process in the background since the tool is not searching for a specific id or a specific class, but it searches for a specific combination of all the attributes of that element. There is also a possibility to disable or enable any attributes of an element or even to change the attributes in a way it suits your test the most.
One of our QA engineers points out that “each locator must be validated whenever there is a new change in their attributes. To do this, the tool provides us a functionality to validate or revalidate each locator anytime we need. Also, when a locator is changing, the locator can be recaptured and compared with the previous one.”
They continue to add that “ to see the tree structure in the same way we see it on a web page, the tool is designed to work with an application (Inspect) that allows us to see in real-time all the details and attributes of each element. The locators can be organized in one folder or in multiple folders, depending on our needs.”