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Yes, you can verify if your xpath is pointing to the right source on the web application under test using FireBug. Here is how:  Go to the Web Application under test We'll take Google for simplicity reasons Open FireBug -  Go to the Console   Console can also be seen at the bottom of the page, so don't worry they both are the same. They can be switched as follows:  Type in $x("Your xpath here") on the command line prompt as shown below: Hit Enter/Run You will get to see the element which was filtered out with your XPath expression

Many a times our XPATH's would fail on test execution. This is when we would want to run the browser with the firebug extension. Just add this section of code in your code:  File file = new File("firebug-1.5.4.xpi"); FirefoxProfile firefoxProfile = new FirefoxProfile(); firefoxProfile.addExtension(file); WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(firefoxProfile);