Getting Started With Selenium Web-driver

1.Browsers

• The Selenium framework officially supports the following browsers:

2. Third party drivers and plug-ins

• Selenium can be extended through the use of plugins. Here are a number of plugins created and maintained by third parties.

3. Locating Elements

• There are eight different built-in element location strategies in WebDriver:

Locating an element

• One of the most fundamental techniques to learn when using WebDriver is how to find elements on the page. WebDriver offers a number of built-in selector types, amongst them finding an element by its ID attribute:

For Example:

1. WebElement cheese = driver.findElement(By.id("cheese"));
   
   
2. driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("#cheese #cheddar"));

4. Performing actions on the AUT

Some basic actions that can be performed by Selenium Web-driver:   

 1) You can set an element’s text using the sendKeys method as follows:

     String name = "Charles";
     driver.findElement(By.name("name")).sendKeys(name);

2) Some web applications use JavaScript libraries to add drag-and-drop functionality.

     WebElement source = driver.findElement(By.id("source"));
     WebElement target = driver.findElement(By.id("target"));
     new Actions(driver).dragAndDrop(source, target).build().perform();

3) You can click on an element using the click method:

     driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[type='submit']")).click();
 

 

 References

• Official website of Selenium https://www.selenium.dev/
• https://learnbasicsofsoftwaretesting.blogspot.com/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium_(software)