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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Second Edition

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA
5 (1)
Book Image

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Second Edition

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 (16 chapters)
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Index

Checking an element's text


While testing a web application, we need to verify that elements are displaying the correct values or text on the page. Selenium WebDriver's WebElement interface provides methods to retrieve and verify text from an element. Sometimes we need to retrieve text or values from an element into a variable at runtime and later use it at some other place in the test flow.

In this recipe, we will retrieve and verify text from an element using the getText() method of the WebElement interface.

How to do it...

Here, we will create a test that finds an element and then retrieves text from the element in a string variable. We will verify the contents of this string for correctness using the following code:

@Test
public void testElementText() {
  // Get the message Element
  WebElement message = driver.findElement(By.id("message"));

  // Get the message elements text
  String messageText = message.getText();

  // Verify message element's text displays "Click on me and my
  // color...