Retrieving dynanic HTML Objects from selenium

We often come across situations of dynamic html objects where in HTML id/name of a page is not constant and some time we don't even get to have any constant part if HTML identifier. Of late I came across a page which had lots of check boxes but no part oh HTML id/name was constant. To over come this we created custom functions for selenium using js evaluation capabilities of selenium. Function objectives are:

****** Retrieves all dropdown objects in a web page
****** Retrieves all multiline text box objects in a web page
****** Retrieves all radio button objects in a web page
****** Retrieves all check box objects in a web page
****** Retrieves all text box objects in a web page

Depending on the availability of HTML id or name these functions would retrieve either HTML id or name. These methods are as following -

Verify email confirmation using Selenium

Note: If you are new to java and selenium then start with selenium java training videos . Email confirmation seems to be integral part of any registration process. I came across an application which lets you provide your email address. You can follow the sign up link in you mail and then complete the registration process. Lets consider we provide GMail address for it. Now if were to use only Selenium then we would have to follow following steps - Launch GMail using Selenium; Some how search for new mail in the list of available mails; Some how click on it; Parse the mail message; Get the registration link; Follow up with registration process What do you think of an approach in which you can

Selenium Tutorial: Get attribute of an element

With Selenium 1.0 Let us consider Google Search Box for example and its "max length"is to be retrieved. Using xPath - String var = selenium.getAttribute("//input[@name='q']/@maxlength"); System.out.println(var); Using css locator - String var = selenium.getAttribute("css=input[name='q']@maxlength"); System.out.println(var); With Selenium 2.0 (WebDriver) Using xPath - String var = webDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='q']")).getAttribute("maxlength") System.out.println(var); Using css locator - ...

Capture network traffic using WebDriver

We often come across testing requirements when we need to analyze the network traffic to find - HTTP status of page Analyze header information to find if right information is passed Validating parameters related to ajax requests etc Selenium 1 has had a way to capture n/w traffic but the feature does not always work as expected. At times Selenium 1 does not capture all n/w traffic, And given that Selenium 1 APIs are almost dead it is

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