Many times a Software tester has to face new challenges while testing web applications and adapt to the prevailing situation. In the Agile testing model, the tester is asked to share the quick observation on different use cases. And, there is almost no time to automate or to use the automation suite. So we’ve compiled a list of must-have Chrome extensions for testing web applications that can help a software tester in quick validation.
7 Must-Have Chrome Extensions for Web Testing
These Chrome extensions are tiny widgets that hid in your browser and can help you achieve your testing objectives. In this post, we’ll showcase some of the best Chrome extensions to speed up the UI testing of web applications. You can introduce these extensions in your regular testing work and see their benefits.
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Let’s now traverse through the list of powerful Chrome extensions for web testing.
7 Must-Have Chrome Extensions for Web Testing.
1. Ghost Inspector extension.
Ghost Inspector is a web browser automation and monitoring tool. It allows you to record UI actions on your website within your browser. After that, you can sync them to the Ghost Inspector service and run them continuously as a regression test.
You can always save back recorded tests on your staging server and execute them via Ghost Inspector API whenever there is a change in the application. Alternatively, you can redirect to your live site and set to run on a specified schedule or after a certain interval.
Note: You’ve to sign up for a Ghost Inspector account to use its features.
2. Window resizer tool.
Great extension that works as it’s inventor say. It’s an invaluable tool that can retrieve HTML element positioning across different screen sizes. This extension re-sizes the browser’s window to emulate various resolutions. It is particularly useful for web designers and developers by helping them test their layouts on different browser resolutions. It is one of the best Chrome extensions for web testing and allows to perform the following operations.
You can adjust the resolutions as per your requirement.
You can set the screen width/height, position, preset icon according to screen size.
You can even apply the new dimensions to the entire window or just to the viewport.
The extension supports global key shortcuts that you can define.
3. Lightshot screen capture.
Great app & easy to use. No learning curve. Very intuitive. We’ve tried many other screenshot tools and found it to be extra user-friendly.
Lightshot is the fastest of the must-have Chrome extensions for testing which captures screenshots on your command. It bundles the following key features.
Capture a screenshot instantly and share it in few clicks,
Dynamically select any part of the page,
Allows to edit screenshot in-place,
Save to disk or transfer to the cloud, and
Search for similar screenshots.
4. MindMup tool.
MindMup is super-simple, lightweight, and collaborative and free mind map cloud app integrated to Google Drive. It is an excellent tool to build, share and affix mind maps. It is the kind of app everyone desires of finding online.
You can quickly learn to use this fantastic tool as it comes with a highly intuitive and user-friendly interface. It’s a perfect substitute for XMind and other similar desktop-based tools. It enables the use of powerful keyboard shortcuts and allows advanced users to get the most out of their screen.
5. WAVE evaluation tool.
WAVE is originally developed by WebAIM.org and is a one of the best web accessibility evaluation tools. It provides interactive feedback about the accessibility of your web content by injecting icons and indicators into your page.
No automation tool can tell you that your page is accessible or not. But WAVE features human evaluation and reports accessibility issues. All analysis is done solely within the Chrome browser. It ensures completely private and secure accessibility testing. It can analyse intranet, password-protected, dynamically generated, or sensitive web pages. Additionally, it can test the quality of page rendering, and the dynamically-generated content from scripts or AJAX.
6. Page ruler extension.
Perfect for web design. You would have used the developer tools in chrome, but they can’t tell you everything. Page ruler is an excellent tool we regularly use in web design for positioning. It’s always accurate and extremely simple to use. It is one of the nicer Chrome extensions for testing web apps. It provides the following set of features.
Draw ruler to any web page and track page dimensions.
Drag the edges of the ruler to resize it.
Use arrow keys to move and change the size of the ruler.
Display guides extending from the ruler edges.
Manually specify values for the ruler from the toolbar to make precision changes.
Enable “Element Mode” to highlight elements on the page as you hover the mouse over them.
Traverse through parents, children and siblings of the object you are measuring.
7. Lean testing extension.
Lean Testing is a free bug tracking and test case management tool designed for software testers. It includes great features to simplify and increase the efficiency of your software testing process. Some of the key features are as follows.
An excellent browser extension to take a screenshot of any website, annotate it and submit a complete bug report in seconds, without leaving the page you’re on.
An intuitive bug report format that will help the team with exclusive details of what went wrong, how to replicate the issue, and on what device/browser the problem occurred.
A simple test case management tool to create test plans and monitor results on a variety of platforms.
A collaborative management solution to invite internal and external team members to a project and manage their roles.
Anyone who would use it, love the complete, thorough bug reports produced by the Lean Testing tool.
Footnote.
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