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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

Identifying and handling a window by its title


Many a time, developers don't assign the name attribute to windows. In such cases, we can use its window handle attribute. However, the handle attributes keep changing and it becomes difficult to identify the window, especially when there is more than one window open. Using the handle and title attributes of the page displayed in a window, we can build a more reliable way to identify child windows.

In this recipe, we will use the title attribute to identify the window and then perform operations on it.

How to do it...

We will create a test that retrieves the handles of all the open windows in the current driver context. We will iterate through this list and check the title matching the criteria, as follows:

@Test
public void testWindowUsingTitle() {
  // Store WindowHandle of parent browser window
  String parentWindowId = driver.getWindowHandle();

  // Clicking Visit Us Button will open Visit Us Page in a new child
  // window
  driver.findElement...