<html>
<body>
<form id="login">
<input name="username" type="text"/>
<input name="password" type="password"/>
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<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Continue!"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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1.2 The Id strategy looks for an element in the page having an id attribute corresponding
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to the specified pattern. <label id="my_id" /> will be matched by a locator
like id=my_id or just my_id
Pros : Each id is supposed to be unique so no chance of matching several elements CONS : Works well only on elements with fixed ids and not generated ones
Works well with fixed list of similar elements 1.3 NAME
Like the Id strategy, but on the name attribute. You can also specify a filter to refine
your locator. Currently, there are two filter types :
Value : matches elements with a name attribute and where the value follows a
pattern. The following example illustrates the interest of filters :
Scenario:
we just added a strawberry pancake in our application and we want to test that the button that adds it into the cart works. With a locator like name=pancake, Selenium will find 3 elements and return the first one : the test will never fail even if the strawberry button is not here! Use a value filter like name=pancake value=Strawberry and the locator successfully identifies the Strawberry button.
Index : same as name but works with an index. Using the previous example, the
locatorname=pancake index=2 will select the Strawberry button.
Tip
PROS:
CONS: 1.4
You have to know the text of the link before
CONS:
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The DOM strategy works by locating elements that matches the javascript expression
referring to an element in the DOM of the page.
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xpath=//button[@value="Blueberry"]: matches the Blueberry button
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//div[@id="pancakes"]/button[0]: same thing
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