Basic Action Commands And Operations for Selenium With Examples [Automation Testing]

Basic Action Commands And Operations With Examples

1. Creating New Instance Of Firefox Driver

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

2. Command To Open URL In Browser

driver.get("http://only-testing-blog.blogspot.in/2013/11/new-test.html");

3. Clicking on any element or button of webpage

driver.findElement(By.id("submitButton")).click();

4. Store text of targeted element in variable

String dropdown = driver.findElement(By.tagName("select")).getText();

5. Typing text in text box or text area.

driver.findElement(By.name("fname")).sendKeys("My First Name");

6. Applying Implicit wait in webdriver

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

7. Applying Explicit wait in webdriver with WebDriver canned conditions.

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 15);

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.textToBePresentInElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[@id='timeLeft']"), "Time left: 7 seconds"));

Above 2 syntax will wait for till 15 seconds for expected text "Time left: 7 seconds" to be appear on targeted element. 

8. Get page title in selenium webdriver

driver.getTitle();

9. Get Current Page URL In Selenium WebDriver

driver.getCurrentUrl();

10. Selecting or Deselecting value from drop down in selenium webdriver.

Select By Visible Text

Select mydrpdwn = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("Carlist")));

mydrpdwn.selectByVisibleText("Audi");

It will select value from drop down list using visible text value = "Audi".

·         Select By Value

Select listbox = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@name='FromLB']")));

listbox.selectByValue("Italy");

It will select value by value = "Italy".

·         Select By Index

Select listbox = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@name='FromLB']")));

listbox.selectByIndex(0);

It will select value by index= 0(First option).

Deselect by Visible Text

Select listbox = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@name='FromLB']")));

listbox.deselectByVisibleText("Russia");

It will deselect option by visible text = Russia from list box.

·         Deselect by Value

Select listbox = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@name='FromLB']")));

listbox.deselectByValue("Mexico");

It will deselect option by value = Mexico from list box.

·         Deselect by Index

Select listbox = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@name='FromLB']")));

listbox.deselectByIndex(5);

It will deselect option by Index = 5 from list box.

·         Deselect All

Select listbox = new Select(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@name='FromLB']")));

listbox.deselectAll();

It will remove all selections from list box.

11. Navigate to URL or Back or Forward in Selenium Webdriver

driver.navigate().to("http://only-testing-blog.blogspot.in/2014/01/textbox.html");

driver.navigate().back();

driver.navigate().forward();

1st command will navigate to specific URL, 2nd will navigate one step back and 3rd command will navigate one step forward. 

12. Verify Element Present in Selenium WebDriver

Boolean iselementpresent = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//input[@id='text2']")).size()!= 0;

It will return true if element is present on page, else it will return false in variable iselementpresent. 

13. Generating Mouse Hover Event In WebDriver

Actions actions = new Actions(driver);

WebElement moveonmenu = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='menu1']/div"));

actions.moveToElement(moveonmenu);

actions.perform();

Above example will move mouse on targeted element.

14. Check Whether Element is Enabled Or Disabled In Selenium Web driver.

boolean fname = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='fname']")).isEnabled();

System.out.print(fname);

Above syntax will verify that element (text box) fname is enabled or not. You can use it for any input element. .

15. Selenium WebDriver Assertions With TestNG Framework

·         assertEquals

Assert.assertEquals(actual, expected);

assertEquals assertion helps you to assert actual and expected equal values. 

 assertNotEquals

Assert.assertNotEquals(actual, expected);

assertNotEquals assertion is useful to assert not equal values. 

·         assertTrue

Assert.assertTrue(condition);

assertTrue assertion works for boolean value true assertion. 

·         assertFalse

Assert.assertFalse(condition);

assertFalse assertion works for boolean value false assertion. 

16. Submit() method to submit form

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='Company']")).submit();

It will submit the form. 

17. Handling Alert, Confirmation and Prompts Popups

String myalert = driver.switchTo().alert().getText();

To store alert text. 

driver.switchTo().alert().accept();

To accept alert. 

driver.switchTo().alert().dismiss();

To dismiss confirmation. 

driver.switchTo().alert().sendKeys("This Is John");

To type text In text box of prompt popup. 

http://seleniumeasy.com/selenium-tutorials/how-to-handle-javascript-alerts-confirmation-prompts

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18. Checkbox

WebElement checkbox = driver.findElement(By.name("vehicle"));

checkbox.click();

WebElement checkbox = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='vehicle']")).click();

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19.  Wait to the website be load successfully

thread sleep (5000);

20.Get page source

System.out.println(driver.getPageSource());

21.  Get page URL

System.out.println("URL: "+driver.getPageSource());

22. Get page title

System.out.println("title: "+driver.getPageSource());

23. Get text on Elements

String contact_result = driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='ContactStandardSearch']/div[3]/span")).getText();

System.out.printf("\nNumber of contact results: "+ contact_result);

24. Some special actions

Actions action = new Actions(driver);
WebElement element=driver.findElement(By.linkText("TEST"));

//Double click

action.doubleClick(element).perform();

//Mouse over

action.moveToElement(element).perform();

//Right Click

action.contextClick(element).perform();

25. To driver Maximize window:

driver.manage().window().maximize();

26. To counter number of lines on tables

List<WebElement> Elements = driver.findElements(By.xpath("html/body/table/tbody/tr"));

int xpathCount = Elements.size();

xpathCount = xpathCount -1;

System.out.println("No. of rows" + xpathCount );

27. Some actions using Java script

// To tick on a checkbox

WebElement element_three = driver.findElement(By.id("tick_off"));

JavascriptExecutor executor_2 = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;

executor_2.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element_three);

// To check a Dropbox- And It have a button to list down the values

driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='contactdetailpartial-container']/div[@class='elem_left']/div[1]/div/span/span/span[@class='k-select']")).click();

WebElement element_two = driver.findElement(By.xpath("html/body/div[4]/div/ul/li[4]"));

JavascriptExecutor executor_1 = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;

executor_1.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", element_two);