1. Create a browser
Selenium WebDriver:
DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities =
DesiredCapabilities.htmlUnit();
desiredCapabilities.setCapability(HtmlUnitDriver.INVALIDSELECTIONERROR,
true);
desiredCapabilities.setCapability(HtmlUnitDriver.INVALIDXPATHERROR,
false);
desiredCapabilities.setJavascriptEnabled(true);
WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver(desiredCapabilities);
Selenide:
open("/my-application/login");
// And run tests with option -Dbrowser=htmlunit (or
"chrome" or "ie", default value is "firefox")
2. Shutdown a browser
Selenium WebDriver:
if (driver != null) {
driver.close();
}
Selenide:
// Do not care! Selenide closes the browser automatically.
3. Find element by id
Selenium WebDriver:
WebElement customer =
driver.findElement(By.id("customerContainer"));
Selenide:
WebElement customer = $("#customerContainer");
or a longer conservative option:
WebElement customer =
$(By.id("customerContainer"));
4. Assert that
element has a correct text
Selenium WebDriver:
assertEquals("Customer profile",
driver.findElement(By.id("customerContainer")).getText());
Selenide:
$("#customerContainer").shouldHave(text("Customer
profile"));
5. Ajax support
(waiting for some event to happen)
Selenium WebDriver (OMG!):
FluentWait<By> fluentWait = new
FluentWait<By>(By.tagName("TEXTAREA"));
fluentWait.pollingEvery(100, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
fluentWait.withTimeout(1000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
fluentWait.until(new Predicate<By>() {
public boolean
apply(By by) {
try {
return
browser.findElement(by).isDisplayed();
} catch
(NoSuchElementException ex) {
return
false;
}
}
});
assertEquals("John",
browser.findElement(By.tagName("TEXTAREA")).getAttribute("value"));
Selenide:
$("TEXTAREA").shouldHave(value("John"));
This command automatically waits until element gets visible
AND gets expected value.
Default timeout is 4 seconds and it's configurable.
6. Assert that
element has a correct CSS class
Selenium WebDriver:
assertTrue(driver.findElement(By.id("customerContainer")).getAttribute("class").indexOf("errorField")
> -1);
Selenide:
$("#customerContainer").shouldHave(cssClass("errorField"));
7. Find element by
text
Selenium WebDriver:
No way (except XPath)
Selenide:
WebElement customer = $(byText("Customer
profile"));
8. Assert that
element text matches a regular expression
Selenium WebDriver:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("customerContainer"));
assertTrue(Pattern.compile(".*profile.*",
DOTALL).matcher(element.getText()).matches());
Selenide:
$("#customerContainer").should(matchText("profile"));
9. Assert that
element does not exist
Selenium WebDriver:
try {
WebElement element
= driver.findElement(By.id("customerContainer"));
fail("Element
should not exist: " + element);
}
catch (WebDriverException itsOk) {}
Selenide:
$("#customerContainer").shouldNot(exist);
10. Looking for
element inside parent element
Selenium WebDriver:
WebElement parent =
driver.findElement(By.id("customerContainer"));
WebElement element =
parent.findElement(By.className("user_name"));
Selenide:
$("#customerContainer").find(".user_name");
11. Looking for Nth
element
Selenium WebDriver:
WebElement element =
driver.findElements(By.tagName("li")).get(5);
Selenide:
$("li", 5);
12. Click
"Ok" in alert dialog
Selenium WebDriver:
try {
Alert alert =
checkAlertMessage(expectedConfirmationText);
alert.accept();
} catch
(UnsupportedOperationException alertIsNotSupportedInHtmlUnit) {
return;
}
Thread.sleep(200);
// sometimes it will fail
Selenide:
confirm("Are
you sure to delete your profile?");
or
dismiss("Are
you sure to delete your profile?");
13. Debugging info
for elements
Selenium WebDriver:
WebElement element
= driver.findElement(By.id("customerContainer"));
System.out.println("tag: " + element.getTag());
System.out.println("text: " + element.getText());
System.out.println("id:
" + element.getAttribute("id"));
System.out.println("name: " +
element.getAttribute("name"));
System.out.println("class: " +
element.getAttribute("class"));
System.out.println("value: " +
element.getAttribute("value"));
System.out.println("visible:
" + element.isDisplayed());
// etc.
Selenide:
System.out.println($("#customerContainer"));
// output looks
like this: "<option value=livemail.ru checked=true
selected:true>@livemail.ru</option>"
14. Take a screenshot
Selenium WebDriver:
if (driver
instanceof TakesScreenshot) {
File scrFile =
((TakesScreenshot) webdriver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
File targetFile
= new File("c:\temp\" + fileName + ".png");
FileUtils.copyFile(scrFile, targetFile);
}
Selenide:
takeScreenShot("my-test-case");
For JUnit users it's even more simpler:
public class
MyTest {
@Rule //
automatically takes screenshot of every failed test
public
ScreenShooter makeScreenshotOnFailure = ScreenShooter.failedTests(); }
15. Select a radio
button
Selenium WebDriver:
for (WebElement
radio : driver.findElements(By.name("sex"))) {
if
("woman".equals(radio.getAttribute("value"))) {
radio.click();
}
}
throw new
NoSuchElementException("'sex' radio field has no value 'woman'");
Selenide:
selectRadio(By.name("sex"), "woman");
16. Reload current
page
Selenium WebDriver:
webdriver.navigate().to(webdriver.getCurrentUrl());
Selenide:
refresh();
17. Get the current
page URL, title or source
Selenium WebDriver:
webdriver.getCurrentUrl();
webdriver.getTitle();
webdriver.getPageSource();
Selenide:
url();
title();
source();
