Overview of Object Spy

Qualitia Object Spy is an Internet Explorer plug-in embedded within IE window at the bottom of the page. It allows you to add objects in the repository while developing test cases or tasks. You can edit the objects in case of any changes to document structure and at the same time validate changes to objects.
Object Spy supports CRUD operations to manage objects.
It is expected from an Automation tool that it should simulate the manual user actions required to test a case. To have this simulation to be accurate, automation tool needs to perform actions on objects. Objects are thus the first entry points in functional test automation tool. This topic illustrates what is an object, types of objects used in Web based applications, what you should know to identify objects correctly, various situations where object identification can become challenging.