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Object Identification in Selenium

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What are Locators?



The locator is a command. that tells Selenium IDE which GUI elements. its needs to operate on. Identification of correct GUI elements is to creating an automation script. The identification of GUI elements is more difficult than it sounds. Sometimes working with incorrect GUI elements or no elements at all. Hence, Selenium provides many Locators for locating a GUI element.


Object Identification in Selenium

 



The Testing different applications Application under Test. we need to identify the object made of. it is Web Application or Desktop Application.


  •   Button


  •   Text Box


  •   Link


  •   Drop Down


  •   Radio Button


  •   List Box


  •   Slider


 The Object identification is very important part of automation activity. So the automation should be able to identify the objects for automation purpose.


The identifying objects Selenium uses a concept of Locators. These locators used to identify the objects. which use automating the test cases using Selenium.


Locators: There are some locators present. These are among them.


  •   ID


  •   Name


  •   XPath


  •   CSS


  •   Class


  •   tagName


  •   DOM


  •   Link Text


  •   Filters


Finding an element and confirming the expected result requires locators. Through locator, In Document Object Mode. web page, we identify the object. The 'By' class use in WebDriver to locate the elements.


  •   By.id(id);


  •   By.name(name);


  •   By.xpath(xpath);


  •   By.cssSelector(selector);


  •   By.class(class);


  •   By.tagName(name);


  •   By.linkText(linkText);


  •   By.partialLinkText(partialLinkText);


Here XPath and CSS are the most used locators.


It is very easy to identify the object of the application. Which built on Firefox but same on the other way. if that application made on IE browser then it is pretty difficult to identify the object.


There are different tools available to identify the objects on different browsers. like Firefox/Chrome/IE etc.


  •   Firebug


  •   IE Developer Toolbar


  •   XPath Checker


  •   Fire Finder


If we are using Selenium IDE there are different ways to identifying the objects. By default, Selenium identifies the object using ‘ID’ or ‘Name’.


The order of identifying the object in Selenium IDE is following:


  •   ID


  •   Name


  •   CSS


  •   XPath Attributes


  •   XPath Relative


  •   XPath Absolute
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