Identify objects using Firebug and IE developer tools

In most of the cases we need to spend more time for understanding the objects and to make use of it correctly in automation perspective. Many applications bound to be challenging for automation using QTP though it has in-built repository and spy to identify objects. Despite similar objects having unique properties made us to go for further analysis, at these time many of us will try descriptive program or some other approaches, even for these approaches we need basic understanding over the objects and its hierarchy.

For this purpose we can use following free of cost tools for easy approach

• Firebug for mozilla browser
• IE Developer tools for Internet Explorer

FireBug

For Firebug you can either go for mozilla addon page or  directly download from firebug site. Using this firebug you can easily do analysis and understand the hierarchy of the web pages.

Developer Tool 

It's an inbuilt tool coming with Internet explorer, To open this Menu -> Tools -> Developer Tools(F12). Which also facilitate the developer to examine the code and understand for their coding approaches.