Webdriver commands with examples

WebDriver is a tool for writing automated tests web applications. It aims to mimic the behavior of a real user, and as such interacts with the HTML of the application.

Webdrivercommands with examples:

findElement() : Returns a single WebElement within the current page

Syntax: WebElement findElement(By by)

driver.get("https:www.gmail.com");

WebElement userName=driver.findElement(By.id("username"));

userName.sendKeys("ravismundhe");

-- findElements() : Returns List of WebElements within the current page.

Syntax:WebElement findElements(By by)

Mechanism used to locate elements within a document.

Direct Known Subclasses:

By.ByClassName, By.ByCssSelector, By.ById, By.ByLinkText, By.ByName, By.ByPartialLinkText, By.ByTagName, By.ByXPath, ByAll, ByChained, ByIdOrName

driver.get("https://www.matrix.com");

List <webelement> textboxes1=driver.findElements(By.xpath("//input[@type='text']"));

System.out.println("total textboxes "+textboxes1.size());

driver.get("http://www.google.com"); To open an application

driver.findElement(By.id("passwd-id")); Finding Element using Id

driver.findElement(By.name("passwd")); Finding Element using Name

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id=’passwd-id’]")); Finding Element using Xpath

element.sendKeys("some text"); To type some data

element.clear(); clear thecontents of a text field or textarea

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select")); Selecting the value

select.findElements(By.tagName("option")); Selecting the value

select.deselectAll(); This will deselect all OPTIONs from the first SELECT on the page

select.selectByVisibleText("Edam"); select the OPTION withthe displayed text of “Edam”

findElement(By.id("submit")).click(); To click on Any button/Link

driver.switchTo().window("windowName"); Moving from one window to another window

driver.switchTo().frame("frameName"); swing from frame to frame (or into iframes)

driver.switchTo().frame("frameName.0.child"); to access subframes by separating the path with a dot, and you can specify the frame by itsindex too.

driver.switchTo().alert(); Handling Alerts

driver.navigate().to; To Navigate Paeticular URL

driver.navigate().forward(); To Navigate Forward

driver.navigate().back(); To Navigate Backword

driver.close() Closes the current window

driver.quit() Quits the driver and closes every associated window.

driver.switch_to_alert() Switches focus to an alert on the page.

driver.refresh() Refreshes the current page.

driver.implicitly_wait(30) Listing out the different WebDriver Wait statements that can be useful for an effective scripting and can avoid using the Thread.sleep() commands of time to wait

driver.set_script_timeout(30) The amount of time to wait

driver.get_screenshot_as_file The full path you wish to save your screenshot to

driver.get_screenshot_as_base64() Gets the screenshot of the current window as a base64 encoded string which is useful in embedded images in HTML