Selenium Cheat Sheet

In this page you will get some basic explanation about function, statement and steps to work with selenium webdriver.

load the webpage using chrome driver

System.out.println("launching chrome browser");
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\selenium_sumit\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();     
driver.navigate().to("https://www.google.com/");
//driver.get("https://www.google.com/");

compare the content of element

Assert.assertEquals(actualTitle, expectedTitle);

maximize the browser window

driver.manage().window().maximize();  // maximize window

Web driver implicit and explicit wait

1. Create implicit wait

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

2. Create explicit wait

WebDriverWait myWait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
myWait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//*[@id='rso']/div[1]/div/div/div/div/h3/a")));

3. Fulent wait

FluentWait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<WebDriver>(driver);
  wait.pollingEvery(4, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
  wait.withTimeout(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
  wait.ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class); // We need to ignore this
              // exception.
  Function<WebDriver, WebElement> function = new Function<WebDriver, WebElement>() {
   public WebElement apply(WebDriver arg0) {
    System.out.println("Checking for the object!!");
    WebElement element = arg0.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='rso']/div[1]/div/div/div/div/h3/a"));
    if (element != null) {
     System.out.println("A new dynamic object is found.");
    }
    return element;
   }
  };
  wait.until(function);

Get the actual value of the page  title

actualTitle = driver.getTitle();  // get page title
        /*
         * compare the actual title of the page with the expected one and print
         * the result as "Passed" or "Failed"
         */
        if (actualTitle.contentEquals(expectedTitle)){
            System.out.println("Test Passed!");
        } else {
            System.out.println("Test Failed");
        }
       
        //close the window
        driver.close();
       
        // exit the program explicitly
        System.exit(0);

Close the browser window

driver.quit();  // using QUIT all windows will close

driver.close(); // close current window

Extract tag name

tagName = driver.findElement(By.id("email")).getTagName();

output:
------------

input  <tag>

Find element by findElement function

WebElement ll = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='loginbutton']"));

     ll.sendKeys("skkkkkkk");

Locating elements the element of page 

By.className (finds elements based on the value of the "class" attribute )
   findElement(By.className("someClassName"))
By.cssSelector ( finds elements based on the driver's underlying CSS Selector engine)
   findElement(By.cssSelector("input#email"))
By.id  (locates elements by the value of their "id" attribute  )
   findElement(By.id("someId"))
By.linkText (finds a link element by the exact text it displays )
   findElement(By.linkText("REGISTRATION"))
By.name ( locates elements by the value of the "name" attribute  )                    
   findElement(By.name("someName"))
By.partialLinkText ( locates elements that contain the given link text)      
   findElement(By.partialLinkText("REG"))
By.tagName ( locates elements by their tag name )                            
   findElement(By.tagName("div"))
By.xpath ( locates elements via XPath )                                      
   findElement(By.xpath("//html/body/div/tr[5]"))

WebDriver provides these useful get commands:

get()
getTitle()
getPageSource()
getCurrentUrl()
getText()

WebDriver provides these useful navigation commands


navigate().forward()
navigate().back()
navigate().to()
navigate().refresh()