Selenium 2 tutorial

This tutorial series is all about selenium 2, also known as WebDriver. Selinium2 is a test automation tool for web applications.

What you need to learn Selenium 2?

Basic Java knowledge is required to learn selenium 2. Following link has step-by-step installation instructions for Java.

https://self-learning-java-tutorial.blogspot.com/2014/01/running-simple-hello-world-applcation.html

I am going to use Eclipse IDE, to demonstrate all my example applications.

Download and install Mozilla Firefox.

Ofcourse, examples in this tutorial will work on other browsers also, I am using Firefox.

Add Firebug and FirePath plugins to Firefox browser

You can get firebug plugin from https://getfirebug.com/

You can get firepath plugin from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/FirePath/

I am going to use following maven dependencies.

<dependency>

         <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

         <artifactId>selenium-firefox-driver</artifactId>

         <version>2.53.0</version>

</dependency>

Since all my examples are going to deal with firefox-driver, I am using selenium-firefox-driver,

Starting with 2.53.0 you need to explicitly include HtmlUnitDriver as a dependency to include it.

<dependency>

         <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

         <artifactId>selenium-htmlunit-driver</artifactId>

         <version>2.52.0</version>

</dependency>

If you are going to use chrome browser, use following dependency.

<dependency>

         <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

         <artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>

         <version>2.53.0</version>

</dependency>

Following is the dependencies for safari browser.

<dependency>

         <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

         <artifactId>selenium-safari-driver</artifactId>

         <version>2.53.0</version>

</dependency>

Following is the dependency for Internet explorer browser.

<dependency>

         <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

         <artifactId>selenium-ie-driver</artifactId>

         <version>2.53.0</version>

</dependency>

Following is the dependency for edge browser.

<dependency>

         <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

         <artifactId>selenium-edge-driver</artifactId>

         <version>2.53.0</version>

</dependency>

Introductio To Selenium 2

Hello World application

Locating web elements using WebDriver

Locate elements using class name

Locate elements using CSS selectors

Locate element by id

Locate element by By Link Text Or Partial Link Text

Locate element by By name

Locate elements by By tag name

Locate element by By XPath

Find XPath Using Firebug

findElements: Get all elements that match given criteria

implicit wait

Actions on Web Elements

getAttribute: Get the value associated with an attribute

sendKeys: Write text to textbox, textarea

clear() : erase the text at textbox (or) textarea

submit: Submit the form

getCssValue: Get value of given css property

getLocation: Get location of the element

getSize: Get size of the element

getRect: get location and size of the rendered element

getText: Get visible text

getTagName: Get tag name of the element

isDisplayed: Check whether element is displayed or not

isEnabled: Check whether element is enabled or not

isDisplayed Vs isEnabled

isSelected: Check whether element is selected or not

click: Clicks this element

Taking screen shots

Switching among windows

Switching among frames

alerts handling

Navigation API

Waiting for webpage to load

Explicit timeouts

Cookies handling

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