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We have done a survey of topics relating to using Selenium Webdriver. What next? Where can we turn for more information? This video will conclude the course by pointing you in the direction of further resources.
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Working with multiple windows
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driver.getAllWindowHandles()- Gets the window handle of all available windows -
driver.getWindowHandle()- Gets the handle of the current window -
driver.switchTo()- Switches between windows - http://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp#moving-between-windows-and-frames
Alerts and Popups
Alerts and Popups can be frustrating to deal with because they are not part of the web content that you may be interacting with when they appear. Learn more about popup dialogs
Working with IFrames
Iframes embed content in a way that is not directly accessible with the other web content. Webdriver provides a mechanism to switch into the IFrame
Complex Actions
Use the ActionSequence API for when you need to do things that are not possible through the standard WebElement API.
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Raise your hand if you think
practice doesn't help you learn.
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You over there with your hand up.
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Sorry, you're wrong.
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Of course practice will help you to cement
these concepts that you've just picked up.
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Now the good news is,
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if you haven't caught on to this yet,
you can use any website.
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Sometimes, there's even sites made for
testing.
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In fact, I've included some in the
teacher's notes for you to check out and
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I thought we'd explore one real quick.
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Let's get practicing.
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In the teacher's notes, I've listed
some sites specifically set up for
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testing via automation.
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One of my personal favorites is
this one here, the PHP Travel site.
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So it's called phptravels.com/demo.
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And what's rad about this is they give you
these different logins that you can use
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and you can go through the whole back
end admin or the whole supplier admin.
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It's great and it's great for practice.
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So let's go ahead and let's open this up.
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I'm just gonna show you really
quick this PHPTRAVELS site here and
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I wanna click this Contact Us link.
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So let's bring our terminal back up.
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Here we go.
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So here I'm gonna start up our REPL.
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Just like we did in the past,
we'll just work through this REPL.
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So we'll import selenium, All right,
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that selenium_webdriver is the package
that we're using here, that we wanna use.
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And then we're gonna grab
our helper class, our so
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popular By helper class is selenium.By.
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We're just pulling this into
the namespace so we can use it easier.
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We'll build the driver.
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And again this is where,
we didn't really do this much but
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we could get a different
driver here if we wanted to.
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But we're still just gonna use Chrome.
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Cuz I know that that's working.
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So forBrowser("chrome").
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And we're gonna call build on
the builder pattern to setup all of our.
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Now we've got a driver, so
let's go get that site.
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So it's driver.get, And
we want ("http://www.phptravels,
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I think unrelated to
the programming language, .net.
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So there we go.
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Oops, I'm gonna close these other,
what we got open here.
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So we've got this site here.
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We've got it open.
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How rad is that?
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So I wanna click that Contact Us link, and
this is something that we hadn't done yet.
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And I wanted to show this
off cuz this is really cool.
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So we're gonna say driver.findElement.
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And what we want is we wanna just
click something, that link there.
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So this is such a common thing,
we're gonna say By.linkText.
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We're gonna click Contact Us, okay?
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And we'll click it.
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So now if we look here,
we'll see that we moved to that page and
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it says Contact Us now.
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And so, we've navigated to a new page.
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So, just like how I could
click this back button here,
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I can also click the back button here.
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So driver, there's a method called
navigate which gets you in there
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to the navigator portion so
that you can say, back.
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Okay, so, let's get that site up.
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Let's do a little half screen thing here.
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So we'll say back.
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All right, and so it goes back there and
then of course you probably guessed,
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you can go forward.
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And if you wanted to, you can also
go ahead and refresh the page.
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So you can see that it comes up, cool.
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And I wanna go and
let's go back once more, so boom.
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We're back here.
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And if you wanted to get
the current URL on a page,
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you probably might have guessed this,
it's getCurrentUrl.
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And that returns a venable,
like we're used to, so url and
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we'll say console.log(url).
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And this is kinda handy to make sure that,
so it returns phptravels.net.
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This is handy for when you're
trying to do multiple page objects.
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Before we only had a single page,
but now there's more.
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One thing that I like about this page
a lot is when I mouse over these hotels
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here, let's see if I can
get my mouse on there,
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see how they go a little bit darker?
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See how nice that is?
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What if I wanted to test that?
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If I wanted to test, making sure
that that darkness happened, right?
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So, how could we pretend
to hover over something?
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Well, this is kind of an advanced thing,
but let's do it.
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Let's walk through this.
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So what we would do is we would find this.
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Let's get this first.
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Right click and choose Inspect.
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Okay, and this is just like we had before,
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just a little bit different of a page,
so let's see.
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What do we got here, so there's an image
and there's a class called row.
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And it's inside of
a thing called featured.
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So we've got featured row.
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So I'm gonna try to just see if I
can get a hold of this featured row.
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Let's see, let's see if we can do that,
so let's see.
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We'll say the first featured one,
so we'll say firstFeatured,
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and let's make sure that
we're off of there.
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All right, so let's do firstFeatured =
driver.findElement And we want By.css.
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Let's see, so we want the class of
.featured, and inside of there,
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there was a class of .row.
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And because we're only using the singular
find element, it will just do one.
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Okay, cool.
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And now, we can access some
special actions for the driver.
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Here, let's check this out
in the doc really quick.
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So if I'm on the web driver documentation,
and
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I look here at something called actions.
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It will return an action sequence.
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Okay?
And here are an example of
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some of the actions that you can do.
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So you can click and
you can drag and drop and
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you can key down and you put them all
together and then you call perform on it.
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So if you wanted to do mouse down and
the mouse over.
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But what we're gonna do is
we're gonna mouse move and
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we're gonna move the mouse to right
over the top of that location.
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So let's do that.
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So what we'll say is
we'll say driver.actions.
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We're gonna call that, mouseMove, and
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we're gonna give it that
element firstFeatured.
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And then I'm gonna call perform, and you
can chain a whole bunch of actions there.
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So if I do that, boom, see how it went and
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got highlighted as if we
moved the mouse over there.
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Okay, fine, one more thing for
you to check out.
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Sometimes you'll wanna wait for
a certain thing on the page to load or
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maybe you wanna wait for
a certain amount of time.
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In this case check out this
documentation on until.
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So if we come back to this,
the top page here,
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this until here is where we wanna look.
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So you can say driver.weight, and then you
can build this until this is available.
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Then send the keys, right?
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Okay, fine.
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One more thing that I wanna show
you before you start practicing.
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If you come in here on any of these
elements, and you choose inspect.
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Let's get this a little bit,
a little over zealous there.
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Let's say I wanted to get a hold of
this div right here, this clear fix div.
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I can come in here and
I can choose Copy and
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then I can choose Copy Selector and
that will give me the CSS, right?
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So that will give me the CSS that I want.
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Look at that,
that's kind of little bit crazy CSS, but
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hey, that's will get us there.
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Or, I could also copy the XPath.
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And that will help you find and
narrow it down.
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For sure, that's what selected it.
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I don't think you'd ever actually
write this because it's not
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exactly what you want, but
this will help you get there.
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It's one way to copy there.
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Okay, so I want you to have fun and
keep practicing cuz you are doing great.
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