Google Chrome is one of the most popular Web browsers in the world right now. Most of the software testers keep Chrome as their primary browser
Chrome supports a huge repository of extensions that make our daily tasks earlier and increase our productivity which is highly required with overwhelming schedules and narrow deadlines and is almost impossible without the right tools
As a Software Tester, I know the challenges we face while testing a website.
These Chrome extensions for software testers will help you achieve your testing productivity and will help you to speed up the testing of applications.
WhatFont
WhatFont provides the easiest way to identify fonts on web pages. With this extension, you could inspect web fonts by just hovering on them.
Using WhatFont You can quickly verify if fonts on all pages are correct or not, you can easily verify fonts based on client’s requirements quickly
ColorZilla
ColorZilla is another very popular chrome Extension, Using ColorZilla you can easily and quickly verify colour codes on web pages, based on the client’s requirement and verify if the webpage is according to the client’s branding requirements or not
IE Tab
IE Tab Extensions help you to simulate Internet Explorer as a browser for websites
This Extension is helpful to verify if web applications are working properly in the IE browser or not, also it is very helpful to test old applications which only support IE as a browser
Check My Links
Check My Links extension checks for all the links on the website and verify if they all are working or not
This extension is very helpful for quickly verifying if there is any broken link on the website and if there is any broken link it will simply highlight it
Web Developer Form Filler
Web Developer Form Filler is a simple and easy-to-use form filler, simply fill the form and save the form, next time when you need to test the form, simply click on the restore in extension option and your form will get filled with saved information
It is very useful when you need to test applications having a large amount of input to fill with the same data again and again.
The only thing which I don’t like is we cannot generate random data for the registration form for that I use Fake Filler Extension
Fake Filler
Fake Filler is a great chrome extension if you want to test a form by filling multiple random generated data
Fake Filler provides all the valid data if you want to verify form functionally and test edge cases you can use Bug Magnet Extension
Grammarly for Chrome
Grammarly is a well-known chrome extension for verifying grammar and spelling.
You can simply copy the content of the webpage you need to verify and paste that into the Grammarly app to verify if the webpage has any grammatical or Spelling errors
SelectorsHub
SelectorsHub is the best Chrome Extension used for finding XPath and CSS selectors created by Sanjay Kumar
This is the most used chrome extension by me, as it can be used as an intelligent editor to write and verify XPath, CSS selector, Playwright selectors, jQuery and JS Path. SelectorsHub can also be used to auto-generate the unique XPath, CSS Selector and all possible selectors
You can even customize the plugin to provide you with copy and paste code for your automation
React Developer Tools
React Dev Tools are a useful extension for testers who have to test React Applications, using it you can easily test applications technically and it will help you to share defects with proper technical details with your developers
Awesome Screenshot and Screen Recorder
It is one of the best screen recorders and screen capture tools to record your screen
Using This Extension you can easily record your screen when you perform any test case and can easily share steps to reproduce the defect, tutorials to explain any expected functionality
Screenity – Screen Recorder & Annotation Tool
As the name suggests it is a screen recorder and annotation tool, using Screenity you can record and annotate your screen, add your voice while you are recording anything, highlight your clicks and much more
You can save the recording on your device or directly to google drive
GoFullPage – Full Page Screen Capture
Using GoFullPage Extension you can easily and quickly take screenshots of the whole page
It is a great extension when you have a large page website, you can easily save screenshots in many Image formats and even in PDF format.
Capture a screenshot of your current page in its entirety and reliably—without requesting extra permissions!
Test Case Studio
This is one of the best plugins, using this plugin whenever you perform any action on a webpage, it will write all the steps you have made and you can easily write your test cases using this plugin
This extension will let you export all steps with XPath and IDs used in the particular element which can be easily used by you or by someone the tea to automate the test case
Edit this Cookie
Edit this Cookie is one of the famous plugins for cookie management, using this extension you can easily add, delete, edit, search, protect and block cookies!
You can use this extension to verify the cookies sent by your application and you can even export these cookies to your colleagues, for usage and verification
If your application uses cookies for Authentication then you can share access to the application using cookies instead of sharing your credentials
Clear Cache
Many time when there are any changes in application code you have to clear your cache to verify the changes this extension let you easily clear your cache of your browser
You can customize what and how much of your data you want to clear on the options page, including App Cache, Cache, Cookies, Downloads, File Systems, Form Data, History, Indexed DB, Local Storage, Plugin Data, Passwords and WebSQL
Page Ruler
As the name suggests Page Ruler extension lets you measure the elements size of elements on the webpage which you can use o test UI elements on the webpage and also guide team members to do required changes with exact values which they should update/verify.
Resolution Test
Using this extension you can easily test web pages in different screen resolutions
Bug Magnet
Bug Magnet is the best chrome extension if you want to test form functionally.
You can use Bug Magnet to fill forms with common problematic values and edge cases to the context menu (right-click) for editable elements, so you can keep them handy and access them easily during exploratory testing sessions.
You can also customize the menus by simply changing the JSON and adding custom test cases values to verify your application
Temp Mail – Disposable Temporary Email
Temp mail extension lets you create temporary emails, which you can use in your testing and verify if emails are coming after registration or not
Talend API Tester
Talend API Tester is a great extension if you want to Test APIs
It provides you with a Postman-like interface in chrome, you can also import a postman collection into this extension.
Personally, I prefer the postman application, but sometimes we have to test API in some other system, maybe the client’s remote machine, where you cannot install any application but you can install this extension, at that time this extension is very helpful
JSON Viewer
This extension beautifies JSON Response on the webpage, which is very useful when you hit get APIs in chrome tabs
Mokku: Mock API calls seamlessly
Using this extension you can easily mock API in chrome dev tools, which can be used to verify application behaviour even when end-to-end development of the product is not completed
d3Coder
d3Coder is a great Encoding/Decoding plugin which helps you perform various types of encoding like base64, rot13 or UNIX timestamp conversion
This extension enables you to encode and decode selected text via the context menu. This reduces the time you spend looking up values and gives you more time to concentrate on testing applications fast
Google Translate
Google Translate extension is very useful when you have to test your application in different languages.
You can Highlight or right-click on a section of text and click on the Translate icon next to it to translate it to your language.
Enable Right Click
Using this extension you can easily enable right-click on the application which has right click disabled on them
Moesif Origin & CORS Changer
This plugin allows you to send cross-domain requests, which is very useful when you have to use API for automation in your application.
This plugin allows you to send cross-domain requests directly from the browser without receiving Cross Origin Errors.
Lighthouse
Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the performance, quality, and correctness of your web apps.
When auditing a page, Lighthouse runs a barrage of tests against the page and then generates a report on how well the page did. From here you can use the failing tests as indicators of what you can do to improve your app.
You can use LightHouse to test loading speed of your website/application and you will also get recommendations to share with developers on how to optimize the loading speed
Wrapping Up!!
I Hope this List of chrome extensions for software testers has helped you to increase the efficiency and quality of testing
I have created this list of extensions based on my experience in the Testing industry, if you are using any other extensions please let readers of this blog in the comment section below, I may add the extension to the list above
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Thanks and Happy Testing!!