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Selenium WebDriver Tips

This document provides 10 tips for improving test quality when using Selenium WebDriver for automated testing. It covers best practices such as creating a WebDriver instance factory, checking for element existence, waiting for pages to load, taking screenshots, selecting dropdown options, refreshing pages, running JavaScript, opening new browser tabs and windows, and switching between windows.

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Selenium WebDriver Tips

This document provides 10 tips for improving test quality when using Selenium WebDriver for automated testing. It covers best practices such as creating a WebDriver instance factory, checking for element existence, waiting for pages to load, taking screenshots, selecting dropdown options, refreshing pages, running JavaScript, opening new browser tabs and windows, and switching between windows.

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Selenium Webdriver – 10 Coding Tips To Improve

Quality

Tip-1: Best Method To Create Webdriver Instance.


public class DriverFactory {
private WebDriver driver = null;

public static WebDriver getBrowser(String browserType) {


if (driver == null) {
if (browserType.equals("Firefox"))

{
driver = new FirefoxDriver();

} else if (browserType.equals("Chrome"))

{
driver = new ChromeDriver();

} else if (browserType.equals("IE"))

{
driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

}
}
return driver;
}
}

Tip-2: Simple Method To Check If An Element Exists.


Boolean isItemPresent = driver.findElements(By.testLocator).size() > 0
Tip-3: Avoid Exception While Checking An Element Exists.
/* 1- Test if an element exists on the page.
2- Ignore the no element found exception.
*/
By element = By.xpath(".//*[@id='demo']/p");
Wait < WebDriver > wait = new FluentWait < > (driver)
.withTimeout(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
.pollingEvery(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
.ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions
.presenceOfElementLocated(element));

Tip-4: Wait For A Page With JavaScript(JS) To Load.


wait.until(new Predicate < WebDriver > () {
@Override
public Boolean apply(WebDriver driver) {
return ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("return
document.readyState").equals("complete");
}
});

Tip-5: Take A Screenshot Using Webdriver.


WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://www.google.com/");

// Store the screenshot in current project dir.


String screenShot = System.getProperty("user.dir") + "\\screenShot.png";

// Call Webdriver to click the screenshot.


File scrFile = ((TakesScreenshot) driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);

// Save the screenshot.


FileUtils.copyFile(scrFile, new File(screenShot));
Tip-6: How To Select/Get Drop Down Option In Selenium
Webdriver.
Select dropdown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//drop_down_x_path")));
dropdown.deselectAll();
dropdown.selectByVisibleText("selectLabel");

Tip-7: Refreshing Web Page By WebDriver During Tests.


driver.navigate().refresh();

Tip-8: Run A JavaScript Code Using Selenium Webdriver.


JavascriptExecutor JS = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
JS.executeScript("alert('hello world')");

Tip-9: Open A New Tab Using Selenium WebDriver In Java.


- driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL +"t");

- ArrayList<String> tablist = new ArrayList<String> (driver.getWindowHandles());

driver.switchTo().window(tablist.get(0));

Tip-10: Switch To A New Browser Window In Webdriver.


// Get the current window handle.
String hBefore = driver.getWindowHandle();

// Click to open new windows.

// Switch to new windows.


for(String hNew: driver.getWindowHandles()){
driver.switchTo().window(hNew);
}

// Close all new windows.


driver.close();

// Switch back to first window.


driver.switchTo().window(hBefore);

// Resume your work.

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