How WebDriverWait works differently for WebElements defined by driver.findElement versus PageFactory initialization

When it comes to using WebDriverWait to wait for WebElement properties,like text or attributes, when sending WebElements as properties generated via PageFactory, that will work properly. However when using ‘driver.findElement()’ to identify the WebElements required as parameters in the WebDriverWaits, that will fail. Here is the reason why.

Selenium tests, the Object Oriented way – example 1 (with code)

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

Selenium tests, the Object Oriented Way

Some while ago i published an article in a local magazine on the topic of writing Selenium tests in an Object Oriented fashion. As i believe this is a very useful way of reducing the number of asserts tests can include, and to expand to a bigger audience, here is a different approach to writing… Read More

Creating the page objects

What is a page object Simply put, a page object is an object that Selenium uses as a representation of an HTML element. Selenium tests will not interact with HTML code directly, but with objects that use selectors to refer to particular bits of the HTML code. Defining page objects You will need to create… Read More