Introducing Navigation API for WebDriver tests

If you are working with selenium then probably you have used Page Object to make your tests more maintainable. In a gist, Page Object extracts the business logic away from test hence any future change in application would affect only one place - Page Object. When using page object we end up writing page / element level APIs which represent services offered by page. These APIs could be chained together to result in an array of operations, like -

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Here in various page level methods are chained together to reach TeamsAndUsersPage (or any other page object). But this may not be only instance when you need to reach TeamsAndUserPage. Hence you would end up repeating/duplicating these operation through out your test methods. This is when we can create navigation package and add navigation class to facilitate navigation -

Also if you find that navigation is common in all test methods then you can add navigation as setup in test class -

What do you think of this approach? How do you get rid of duplicating page level navigation in your tests?

Appium and android mobile app automation

Next appium and Android mobile app automation video tutoria l is live. If you are new to appium then please check - appium-tutorial This video tutorial covers - Start vysor (Just for this session and not mobile automation :)) Start appium and start appium inspector Desired Capabilities platformName - Android deviceName - L2N0219828001013 (as seen on "adb devices") Saved Capability Sets Start Session Scan app elements using appium inspector Get appPackage and appActivity using "APK info" app Install "APK info" app and open app whose appPackage and appActivity are required i.e. calculator Check top section of app icon com.android.calculator2 is app package com.android.calculator2.Calculator is app activity testng.xml file settings for running Android app tests Test details com.seleniumtests.tests.mobile.AndroidAppTest and CalculatorScreen class View beautiful STF test report

Return only first or last element from webelements collection

Note: If you are new to java and selenium then start with selenium java training videos . We often come across situation when there are multiple elements on a page and we probably like to exercise only a few of them using selenium webdriver. May be just first and last element. For example on a search result page we may like to click on only first and last link and not all. This is when Iterables API comes handy. (By the way I am assuming that you have already completed watching selenium training videos :)). Once we have collection of web element then we can use Iterables to get only first or last element as following - Consider that we fetch collection of element as - List< WebElement > webElements = getDriver().findElements(By. id ( "htmlID" )); Now we can get the first web element from this collection as - WebElement firstElement = Iterables. getFirst (webElements, getDriver().findElement(By. id ( "defaultElement" ))); Herein second

Using chrome console to test xPath and css selectors

Note: If you are new to java and selenium then start with selenium java training videos . Since the advent of selenium there have been many plugin to test xPath / css selectors but you don’t need any of them if you have chrome browser. Using Chrome console you can test both xPath and css selectors. Launch website to be tested in chrome browser and hit F-12 and you would see chrome console opened in lower pane of application - Hit escape key and console would open another pane to write element locators - And now you can start writing xPath or css selectors in chrome console and test them - The syntax for writing css id - $$(“ ”) And hit the enter key. If your expression is right then html snippet of the application element corresponding to the css selector would be displayed - If you mouse over the html snippet in chrome console then it would highlight the corresponding element in application - If you want to clean console of previously wri

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