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Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools: Beginner's Guide

By : David Burns
Book Image

Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools: Beginner's Guide

By: David Burns

Overview of this book

<p>Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web application testing across many platforms. A strong understanding of using Selenium will get you developing tests to ensure the quality of your applications.</p> <p>This book helps you understand and use Selenium to create tests and make sure that what your user expects to do can be done. It will guide you to successfully implement Selenium tests to ensure the quality of your applications.</p> <p>The Selenium Testing Tools Beginner’s guide shows developers and testers how to create automated tests using a browser. You'll be able to create tests using Selenium IDE, Selenium Remote Control and Selenium 2 as well. A chapter is completely dedicated to Selenium 2. We will then see how our tests use element locators such as css, xpath, DOM to find elements on the page.</p> <p>Once all the tests have been created we will have a look at how we can speed up the execution of our tests using Selenium Grid.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Selenium 1.0 Testing Tools Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Time for action – finding multiple elements on the page


Imagine that your test requires you to type something into each of the input boxes on the page, or if you needed to check how many buttons were on the page.

In this scenario, the findElements method call will be extremely useful and we can tell the driver to search by tagName to find all of the items on the page.

  1. Create a new test to access http://book.theautomatedtester.co.uk/chapter2.

  2. Find all elements that are an input.

  3. Assert whether the list size is five.

  4. Run your test. It should appear as follows:

    @Test
    public void shouldLoadChapter2AndFindAllInputElements(){
        driver.get("http://book.theautoamtedtester.co.uk");
        List<WebElement> inputs =
          driver.findElements(By.tagName("input"));
        Assert.assertEquals("Should be 5",5,inputs.size());
    }

What just happened?

We have just looked at the findElements method. This can be used when there are multiple elements on the page that match the search criteria. This could be because...