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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 checkboxes


Selenium WebDriver supports the checkbox element using the WebElement interface. We can select or deselect a checkbox using the click() method and check whether a checkbox is selected or deselected using the isSelected() method.

In this recipe, we will see how to work with the checkbox element.

How to do it...

Here is the code for a test that has a checkbox and performs the select and deselect operations:

@Test
public void testCheckBox() {
  //Get the Checkbox as WebElement using it's value attribute
  WebElement airbags = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value='Airbags']"));

  //Check if its already selected? otherwise select the Checkbox
  //by calling click() method
  if (!airbags.isSelected()) {
    airbags.click();
  }

  //Verify Checkbox is Selected
  assertTrue(airbags.isSelected());

  //Check Checkbox if selected? If yes, deselect it
  //by calling click() method
  if (airbags.isSelected()) {
    airbags.click();
  }

  //Verify Checkbox is Deselected
...