{"id":5027,"date":"2014-09-19T16:50:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/?p=5027"},"modified":"2014-10-08T11:46:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T15:46:02","slug":"locator-suggestions-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2014\/09\/locator-suggestions-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Easily find an element with locator suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accurately and reliably locating the right element to interact with is one of the biggest challenges with real-browser testing, both in our products (QA Tester and Load Tester) as well as when coding tests to the <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.seleniumhq.org\/\">Selenium\/WebDriver<\/a> APIs. Our upcoming 6.4 release provides suggestions for a variety of locators that may be a suitable replacement for the locator that was chosen during the testcase recording. If you are accustomed to using <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.seleniumhq.org\/docs\/02_selenium_ide.jsp\">SeleniumIDE<\/a>, you find that our implementation operates provides a familiar experience.<\/p>\n<p>To access these suggestions, look for the light bulb icon next to the locator edit field. To try one of those suggestions, simply select it from the list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/LocatorSuggestionExample2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5030\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/LocatorSuggestionExample2.png\" alt=\"LocatorSuggestionExample2\" width=\"628\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Locator suggestions will be included in the 6.4 release. Look for it in early October!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accurately and reliably locating the right element to interact with is one of the biggest challenges with real-browser testing, both in our products (QA Tester and Load Tester) as well as when coding tests to the <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.seleniumhq.org\/\">Selenium\/WebDriver<\/a> APIs. Our upcoming 6.4 release provides suggestions for a variety of locators that may be a suitable replacement for the locator that was chosen during the testcase recording. If you are accustomed to using <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.seleniumhq.org\/docs\/02_selenium_ide.jsp\">SeleniumIDE<\/a>, you find that our implementation operates provides a familiar experience.<br \/>\nTo access these suggestions, look for the light bulb icon next to the locator edit field. To &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2014\/09\/locator-suggestions-performance\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,204,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-load-testing","category-qa-and-functional-testing","category-real-browser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5050,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}