Selenium

In previous blog post, I have explained about how use XML for making a data driven framework for automation testing . It can be found here. I have also written about how to use jxl library for reading from excel and writing into Excel. Below is another code snippet to read all values of a row and save it into a hash map for accessing later during automation test. public HashMap GetAllDataForARow (String sheet, int Row){ HashMap DataMap = new HashMap(); try { Workbook wrk1 = Workbook.getWorkbook(new File(dataPath)); //Obtain the reference to the first sheet in the workbook Sheet sheet1 = wrk1.getSheet(sheet); int x =0; Cell colArow1 , colArow2; do { colArow1 = sheet1.getCell(x,0); colArow2 = sheet1.getCell(x,Row); DataMap.put(colArow1.getContents(), colArow2.getContents()); x=x+1; }while (colArow1.getContents() != ""); } catch (BiffException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException e){ } return DataMap; }

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. ...