Web Spy Introduction AE 5.4 Document
Web Spy Introduction AE 5.4 Document
In this document we will see how to use web spy in AutomationEdge process studio version 5.4.0.
Web spy is a tool in process studio. It is used in WEB GUI i.e. Web graphical user interface
automation. It is used to identify an element on a web page and to create step directly in the
workflow.
Browser versions supported for WebGUI Automation and Web Spy are same. Versions are Firefox
(version 38 to 47), Chrome (version 57 to 79) and IE (version 8 to 11).
Use case
We will be building a workflow which would open a browser instance and put URL as
www.google.com. Then we enter text “AutomationEdge” in Google search box.
It will open a separate instance of the browser and following Web Spy toolbar will appear.
5. To fetch attributes of Google search box - Click on spy. Hover mouse on the search box and
press back tick (`) icon on the keyboard. Below image shows back tick (`) character on
keyboard
6. Now let’s do step generation. Select type as single. Select which action we want to perform.
We want to enter text so select ‘Web Set Value’. Specify the value to be entered say
So this way we can easily fetch attributes of an element and add action steps directly to the
workflow by using Web spy.
7. Add Exit browser step.
If we know the locator (Attribute value) of some element then we can locate that element on the
page by using “Locate element” button as shown below.
3. We can see the element with specified criteria is highlighted on the webpage.