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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 an element with XPath


Imagine that you need to interact with an element on the page but do not know the ID or the name of the element. In Chapter 2, Locators, we saw a number of different XPath strategies so let us try to translate our test cases into Selenium 2.

  1. Create a new Java class and create the setUp() and tearDown() methods.

  2. The test needs to load http://book.theautomatedtester.co.uk/chapter2.

  3. Find the element with the text Sibling Button.

  4. Click on the button.

  5. Run your test. Your code should appear as follows:

    @Test
    public void shouldLoadChapter2AndClickOnSiblingButton(){
      driver.get("http://book.theautomatedtester.co.uk");
      WebElement sibling =
        driver.FindElement(
          By.xpath("//input[@value='Button with ID']
          /following-sibling::input[@value='Sibling Button']"
          )
      );
      Sibling.click();
    }

What just happened?

We have just seen how our tests can use xpath to find elements on the page so that our tests can use them. There is no difference between...