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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

You're reading from   Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Unlock the full potential of Selenium WebDriver to test your web applications in a wide range of situations. The countless recipes and code examples provided ease the learning curve and provide insights into virtually every eventuality.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849515740
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Locating Elements FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Selenium API 3. Controlling the Test Flow 4. Data-driven Testing 5. Using the Page Object Model 6. Extending Selenium 7. Testing on Mobile Browsers 8. Client-side Performance Testing 9. Testing HTML5 Web Applications 10. Recording Videos of Tests 11. Behavior-driven Development Index

Identifying and handling a pop-up window by its content


In certain situations, developers neither assign the name attribute nor provide a title to the page displayed in a pop-up window. This becomes more complex when a test needs to deal with multiple pop-up windows open at the same timeā€”to identify the desired pop-up window.

Ideally, you should reach out to developers and recommend that they add either the name attribute or title for better testability and accessibility.

As a workaround to this problem, we can check the contents of each window returned by the driver.getWindowHandles() method to identify the desired pop-up window.

How to do it...

Let's create a test that retrieves the handles of all the open windows in the current driver context. It will then iterate through this list, switching to the window and then checking for the content, which will help in identifying the correct window as follows:

@Test
public void testWindowPopupUsingContents()
{
    //Save the WindowHandle of Parent...
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