How to Automatically run Firebug for entire site..is it possible?

[gm123]

Hi,

I am checking DART spotlight tags on an entire site to see if they
implemented and firing properly, but I have over 400 pages to check!
Is there a faster way to doing this (other than per individual page)?
Does firebug have an automatic report that will crawl every page in a
domain? Or Does anyone know of a different program I could use.

Thanks

[Jan Odvarko]

I am not sure if I understand what you want to do.

But if you want to get HTTP tracing logs and export them (perhaps for
further automatic processing), you can use NetExport extension:
http://getfirebug.com/releases/extensions.html

For the automation support there is a bug see here:
http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=2351

Is this what would help you?

Honza

[gm123]

Hi,

Thanks for the help.

I am trying to check if all our pages have a spotlight tag that has
been implemented and is firing properly. if theres a way I can run
firebug (or some other program) to tell me every single page where a
particular tag has been tagged correctly? like a report of some sort.
Right now I am looking at every single page individually and checking
one by one...very tedious.

Hopefully that makes sense. Thanks for the help!

[Noah Sussman]

On Oct 6, 12:46 pm, gm123 <guillermo.mu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to check if all our pages have a spotlight tag that has
> been implemented and is firing properly. if theres a way I can run
> firebug (or some other program) to tell me every single page where a
> particular tag has been tagged correctly?

I don't think you can automate Firebug in that way. If you can, I
hope someone will correct me -- because I would also like to be able
to automatically run Firebug against many Web pages and generate a
report.

I think that you want an automated Web GUI testing framework like
Selenium. This is what I use when I need to check that the DOM has
loaded as intended, across many pages.

Selenium is not the only such tool (IBM Rational Functional Tester
comes to mind) but it is free and, most importantly, the core
technology is implemented in pure JavaScript.

http://seleniumhq.org/docs/01_introducing_selenium.html#test-automation-for-web-applications

Currently I do not know of a way to use Firebug from within
Selenium. However, Selenium can examine the DOM in much the same way
Firebug can, and it can do it in an automated fashion.

Particularly take a look at the Selenium RC (remote control) server.
There are also some other free automation tools (Watir) available from
the same folks that make Selenium: http://openqa.org/

I tend to design tests in Firebug, and then "port" them over to
Selenium when I want to automate.