Selenium WebDriver Recipes in Ruby

Selenium WebDriver Recipes in Ruby

The problem solving guide to Selenium WebDriver in Ruby Zhimin Zhan

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To Dominic and Courtney!

Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i Who should read this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii How to read this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii Recipe test scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii Send me feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii

1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Selenium language bindings: Java, C#, JavaScript, Python and Ruby . . . . 1 1.2 Cross-browser testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 RSpec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.4 Run recipe scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2. Locating web elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.1 Start browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.2 Inspect Web Element in Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.3 Find element by ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.4 Find element by Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.5 Find element by Link Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.6 Find element by Partial Link Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.7 Find element by XPath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.8 Find element by Tag Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2.9 Find element by Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2.10 Find element by CSS Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2.11 Find element by Relative locators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.12 Chain find_element to find child elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.13 Find multiple elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 2.14 Locate a Web Element that disappears after Inspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

3. Hyperlink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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3.1 Click a link by text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.2 Click a link by ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.3 Click a link by partial text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.4 Click a link by XPath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3.5 Click Nth link with exact same label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3.6 Verify a link is present or not? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3.7 Getting link data attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3.8 Test links open a new browser window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

4. Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4.1 Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4.2 websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 4.3 Blog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 4.4 Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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