Selenium

Very frequently testers will meet a situation where they need to take screenshot of webpage they are testing , either for base line or as a proof of test result. This is same with automated testing . Even though automated test cases have their own of way of publishing test results, it is always desirable to keep a proof of result.. Screenshot come to help in this regards. In this blog post , I will explain , how to take a screenshot with Selenium Web Driver with C#. In future I will add another couple of post to explain , how to consolidate the screenshots into a PDF document. ...

During testing we will sometimes come up to situations where developers are not following best practises for testability . We will frequently come up situations where elements doesn’t have any unique identifiable property. XPath axis comes to help in those situations. We can identify elements using various XPath Properties List of various XPath Axis are available in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath/Axes If you have well-defined properties to identify the element, use them as your locator. Please read locator strategy Using XPath and Other Parameters ...

XPath is XML query language which can be used for selecting nodes in XML. Hence it can be used to identify elements from DOM since they are represented as XHTML documents. Selenium WebDriver also supports XPath for locating elements. They also help to look for elements in both direction and hence it is generally slow compared to all other locator strategy. We can use XPath with both absolute path and relative path. ...

Difference between / and // in XPath / is used to create absolute XPath which starts from root. This is highly brittle since any changes to UI will change element locator. // is used to create relative XPath . The XPath is created relative to another element in UI Difference between driver.get() and driver.navigate().to() Both driver.get() and driver.navigate().to() will try to open a webpage and wait for the page to load. It means, it will wait till Onload event has fired. But it will not wait for all AJAX calls to trigger and process. Both of them are essentially the same. How ever Navigate() interface exposes the ability to move backward and forward in browser history. ...