> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/browser-synthetics/transaction-tests/getting-started/working-with-web-development-tools.md).

# Working With Web Development Tools

Web development tools provide inspection and manipulation methods for analyzing various aspects of web applications. Familiarizing yourself with these tools can significantly improve your transaction scripting capabilities and increase the velocity at which you will be able to create new transactions or efficiently analyze reported issues.

To execute Page Load and Transaction tests, ThousandEyes Enterprise and Cloud Agents are running the [Chromium browser](https://www.chromium.org/Home), a variation of Google's [Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome/). This is why this article focuses on resources describing development tools of the Chrome browser. Since the web development tools do not differ significantly between web browsers (at least not in their basic functionality that we're discussing here), becoming familiar with one flavor of web development tools will make you capable of using other browsers' development tools as well.

## Video Guides for Chrome Developer Tools

Use these third-party YouTube videos to learn Chrome DevTools features that help you build and troubleshoot transaction scripts.

### Google Chrome Developer Tools Crash Course

This third-party video introduces Chrome DevTools features that help you inspect web pages while you build transaction scripts.

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4q86IjJFag>" %}

### Using Chrome Developer Tools: Elements

This third-party video shows how the Elements panel helps you inspect page structure for transaction scripts.

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV9PLPFTnkE>" %}

### Using Chrome Developer Tools: Network

This third-party video shows how the Network panel helps you inspect requests and responses.

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwoT18tp6Hs>" %}

### Using Chrome Developer Tools: Console

This third-party video shows how the Console panel helps you find script and page errors.

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G74ll-6L4_o>" %}

## Related Information

This article is part of the [Transaction Tests](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/browser-synthetics/transaction-tests) section.

If you have any questions, [contact the ThousandEyes Customer Engineering team](https://docs.thousandeyes.com/product-documentation/getting-started/getting-support-from-thousandeyes).