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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 the two might contain. Continue reading thewaiter: wait for WebElement text. To equal, contain a String with variations. →

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 Java 8. It can be found in ‘thewaiter’ library in two variants: with a default timeout, and with a signature that allows a timeout parameter to be specified when calling it. Continue reading thewaiter: wait for an element to be displayed with Selenium →

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. Performing the testing part will imply the use of @FindBy (of Selenium WebDriver) and List (of Java). Read on to get an idea of where this approach can be used, how @FindBy is ideal for such a task, what the basics of working with List are, and what an actual test looks like. Continue reading @FindBy, Lists and using them to check for similar UI elements →

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 presented here will be available in GitHub under this location: https://github.com/iamalittletester/learning-project. Continue reading Selenium tests, the Object Oriented way – example 1 (with code) →

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 there were test failures, but would have appeared later on. Therefore if the test would have waited a little bit before performing the presence check, it would have passed. Continue reading Selenium: How to wait for an element to be displayed / not displayed →

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 is not used properly. Some tests appear to be unreliable Continue reading Selenium: How to correctly test whether an element is displayed (or not) →