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Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide Write clear, readable, and reliable tests with Selenium WebDriver 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612486
Length 192 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pinakin Chaubal Pinakin Chaubal
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing Selenium WebDriver and Environment Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding the Document Object Model and Creating Customized XPaths 3. Basic Selenium Commands and Their Usage in Building a Framework 4. Handling Popups, Frames, and Alerts 5. Synchronization 6. The Actions Class and JavascriptExecutor 7. The Command Pattern and Creating Components 8. Hybrid Framework 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Important methods in Selenium

We will have a look at a few of the very important and frequently used methods and their signatures.

These are methods invoked by the WebDriver instance:

  • findElement(By) versus findElements(By): Both these methods take an argument of type By. The findElement method calls the FindElements method and returns a WebElement. If multiple elements are found with the same locator, it returns the first WebElement. The findElements, on the other hand, returns a list of WebElements. The findElement throws a NoSuchElementException if it is unable to find an element using the locator provided in the parameter list. The findElements returns an empty list if no elements are found using the given locator.
  • get(String): The get method takes a String URL as a parameter. It navigates to the URL supplied as a parameter. The URL can be in the form of http://www.google...
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