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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA
5 (1)
Book Image

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

5 (1)
By: UNMESH GUNDECHA

Overview of this book

This book is an incremental guide that will help you learn and use the advanced features of the Selenium toolset including the WebDriver API in various situations to build a reliable test automation. You start off by setting up the test development environment and gain tips on the advanced locater strategy and the effective use of the Selenium WebDriver API. After that, the use of design patterns such as data - driven tests and PageFactory are demonstrated. You will then be familiarised with extending Selenium WebDriver API by implementing custom tasks and setting up your own distributed environment to run tests in parallel for cross-browser testing. Finally, we give you some tips on integrating Selenium WebDriver with other popular tools and testing mobile applications. By the end of this book, you will have learned enough to solve complex testing issues on your own.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Automating textboxes, text areas, and buttons


The textbox and button elements are the most common elements used in any web application. Selenium WebDriver's WebElement interface provides methods to simulate keyboard entry into textboxes or text areas and perform clicks on a button control.

In this recipe, we will explore these methods to automate textbox, text-area, and button elements.

How to do it...

Here we will explore the clear(), sendKeys(), submit() and click() methods of the WebElement interface.

Clearing text from textbox and text-area elements

To clear the existing text value from textbox and text-area elements, we can use the clear() method, as shown in following code example:

// Find the text input element by its name
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));

// Clear the existing text value using clear method
element.clear();

Entering text in textbox and text-area elements

To enter text value in a textbox or a text-area element, we can use the sendKeys() method, as shown...