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5 Easy Steps to Test Browser Extensions with Selenium

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Fast-paced software development environments can create time and cost constraints that make it strenuous to comprehensively test new applications upon deployment. Over recent years, Continuous Integration (CI) has become a good best practice for software development, making the process much easier, as it tends to find issues earlier, offering risk mitigation and boosted confidence benefits. This is mostly relevant when it comes to automatic testing for web, mobiles sites, applications and much more. For instance, a browser extension, be it Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer or Safari. What are the Obstacles You May Find When Testing Browser Extensions? Browser extensions can be defined as embedded add-ons in your browser, which provides the web browser with additional integrated features. Since the extensions aren’t standard HTML files, they are out of scope and the tester cannot inspect the extension elements, such as simulating user clicks. Let us suppose you