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What are Developer Tools (Dev Tools)?
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Answer from AI
Developer Tools (DevTools) are a set of built-in browser tools used by web developers and QA engineers for inspecting, debugging, analyzing performance, and optimizing web pages and applications.
Main features:
- Viewing and editing HTML and CSS: Allows real-time examination and modification of the DOM structure and element styles.
- JavaScript debugging: Ability to set breakpoints, step through code, view variables, and call stacks.
- Monitoring network requests: Display all server requests (files, images, APIs), their status, load time, and size.
- Performance analysis: Measure page load times, profile JavaScript, identify bottlenecks.
- Accessibility testing: Analyze elements for compliance with accessibility standards.
- Device emulation: View pages in various screen resolutions and simulate mobile devices.
- Working with browser storage: View and modify data in Local Storage, Session Storage, Cookies.
- Console: Execute JavaScript commands, view logs, errors, and warnings.
Examples of QA usage:
- Viewing error logs in the console.
- Analyzing network requests to identify loading or API response issues.
- Examining the DOM to verify structure and element attributes.
- Emulating different devices to test interface responsiveness.
- Checking data stored in Local Storage or Cookies.