Selenium Webdriver Topics

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Description:

This repository contains the individual topics of Selenium WebDriver from basic to advance.

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Author:

• Created By: Sarang Holey & Mr. Akash Tyagi
• Reach out us at: [email protected] and [email protected]

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Topics Covered:

• How to create a maven project
• Different browser invocations
• Locator strategy
• Xpath basics
• Drop down handling and mouse actions
• Alert, Browser pop up and Frame handling
• Desired capabilities - Headless browser, Set browser window size, etc
• Tool tip handling
• Synchronization
• Screenshot capturing
• JavaScript Utilities
• Properties file reading
• Cross browser testing
• Testing over cloud based tool
• Interact with existing chrome session with WebDriver
• Validation of colour and size of element on a webpage
• Different date picker scenario automation
• Concept of runnable jar file
• Webtable handling with Xpath by Axes
• Code to capture broken link & images from a webpage
• StaleElementException handling code
• HashMap & its use case

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Steps to setup a Selenium Java Maven Project

• 1. Create maven project - File -> New -> Project -> Maven -> Maven Project
• 2. Add following code under properties tag in pom.xml file

		<properties>
			<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
			<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
			<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
		</properties>

• 3. Add the following Selenium WebDriver dependency from link under dependencies tag -

		https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-java/3.141.59 

		<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-java -->
		<dependency>
		    <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
		    <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
		    <version>3.141.59</version>
		</dependency>

• 4. Update the project Right clicl on project -> go to maven -> Update Project, this will change the project status java 1.5 to java 1.8
• 5. Download chromedriver, Firefox driver, opera driver & Edge driver according to the browser version installed in your system from following links

		i. Chromedriver - https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
		ii.Firefoxdriver (geckodriver) - https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
		iii. Opera driver - https://github.com/operasoftware/operachromiumdriver/releases
		Iv. Edge driver - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/

• 6. Unzip all those driver files accordingly & paste in the root folder inside the maven project just created
• 7. Now, refresh the project by right clicking the project folder in eclipse -> refresh
• 8. Now you can start to code for Selenium with java along with the required browser.

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Note - For making operations on any required browser

i. It should be installed on your system.
ii. The compatible browser driver version should be downloaded depending on the current browser vendors version.

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Some other Resources

• HTTP: Click Here
• HTTP Codes: Click Here
• Selenium Web Driver PPT: Click Here
• XPathGuide: Click Here

XPATH GuideLines:

Notes - 

Absolute Xpath: It contains the complete path from the Root Element to the desire element.
Why Not to use absolute xpath?
-> 	1. Performance is slow
	2. Not reliable & can be changed any time in future 

Relative/Custom Xpath: This is more like starting simply by referencing the element you want and go from the particular location.

Which one should be used ?
-> You use always the Relative Path for testing of an element. 
The reason behind that is if you make any architectural change in the website the change won't effect the testing 
or selecting of the element.

1. "//" - means anywhere inside the document

2. Xpath With Contains - for dynamic attributes
	When to use - First -> id = #hqf_test_123 after refresh -> id = #hqf_test_124
	then xpath will be ->//input[contains(@id,'#hqf_test_')]
	
3. Xpath with Contains Text function
	When to use - there is no id, name, classname attribute available & element having particular text
	then xpath will be ->//input[contains(text(),'iphone')]
	Note - it will also find the elements having some other text with word iphone in it
	
4. Xpath with Text 
	When to use - element having particular text
	then xpath will be ->//input[text()='iphone']
	Note - it will find specifically the element having iphone text available
	
5. Xpath with "starts-With" - for dynamic attributes
	When to use - First ->  id = test_123 after refresh -> id = test_124
	then xpath will be -> //input[starts-with(@id,'test_')]
	//input[@id='test_123']

6. Xpath with "ends-With"  - for dynamic attributes
	When to use - First ->  id = %456_test after refresh -> id = %457_test
	then xpath will be -> //input[ends-with(@id,'_test')]

7. Xpath with index
	When to use - there are more than one elements pointing to a xpath having already unique properties
	URL - https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/components/buttons/
	then xpath will be -> (//div[@class='bd-example']/button[@type='button' and text()='Primary'])[2]