In this blog post series, i want to show how i normally set up my browsers and my Selenium code, in order to enable writing ‘cross-OS’, ‘cross-browser’, ‘browser-unaware’ tests. What this means: my tests can run on any OS i set up seamlessly; each test can be run on multiple browsers seamlessly; the tests do… Read More
Element text is something you will often check for when writing Selenium tests. Whether it equals a given String, or contains a given String. But you can extend your checks to whether: the element text equals/contains a String ignoring the case of the two, or whether the element text equals/contains a String ignoring any whitespace… Read More
A very hot topic when testing with Selenium is how to wait for a WebElement to be displayed. I wrote about this some while back, and that post is one of my most read on this blog. In this new post i will revisit the subject, by providing a new version of that method, using… Read More
This is going to be a rather complex post, that will show how to easily check for values of similar UI elements. By similar i mean elements that share some kind of properties: whether they have the same CSS selector, or are part of the same group of elements. Some examples will be shown below.… Read More
This is going to be a follow-up post in regards to the approach i showed at my SeleniumConf talk, on doing Selenium tests by using an Object Oriented approach. I will have a series of such posts, to show more examples and to make it easier to understand how to use it. All the code… Read More
In my previous post i talked about how to check whether an element is displayed or not. There are times when tests where such an action is performed fail randomly (sometimes they will pass, other times they won’t). The assumption here is that the element was not displayed within a decent amount of time when… Read More
One of the most frequent kind of interactions with the web page when testing with Selenium is checking whether a particular element is present. More specifically, whether it is visible when looking at the page and does not have a “hidden” attribute. The isDisplayed() method is used for such checks, but in many cases it… Read More
The What During Selenium test execution, i want to store a screenshot of what is displayed in the browser to understand in what conditions the test ran.
The What I have a bunch of tests that i would like to run faster, by making them execute in parallel. In my tests: I am not using a DataProvider and only want to make the same test run several times. I am using a DataProvider and want my test to run with the provided… Read More
The What Having an HTML dropdown on a web page, i would like to select, via Selenium, an element from it, or deselect the selected one. An example of an HTML representation of a dropdown can be found below – it displays a list of winter months: <select id=”winter”> <option value=”Dec”>December</option> <option value=”Jan”>January</option> <option value=”Feb”>February</option>… Read More
