Automating the HTML5 video player

HTML5 defines a new element that specifies a standard way to embed a video or movie clip on a web page using the <video> element. Internet Explorer 9+, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Safari support the <video> element.

In this recipe, we will explore how we can automate testing of the <video> element. This automated testing provides a JavaScript interface with various methods and properties for automation.

How to do it...

We will create a new test named testHTML5VideoPlayer for testing the <video> element. We will use the JavaScriptExecutor class from Selenium WebDriver to interact with the <video> element. We will control the video from our test code and also verify some properties of the video in the following way:

package com.secookbook.examples.chapter10;

import java.io.File;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium...