Post#13.WebDriver Methods

Selenium WebDriver Browser Commands

The very first thing you like to do with Selenium is to opening and closing a new browser. Below are the numbers of commands you can apply on the Selenium opened browser.

1. Get Command

Purpose: This command is use to open a new web page in the current browser.

Command: driver.get(URL);

Parameters: url – The URL to load. It is best to use a fully qualified URL

driver.get("wwww.google.com");

2. Get Title Command

Purpose: This command is use to get the title of the current page.

driver.getTitle();

3. Get Current URL Command

Purpose: This command is use to get the URL of the page currently loaded in the browser.

driver.getCurrentUrl()

4. Get Page Source Command

Purpose: This command is use to get the source of the last loaded page.

driver.getPageSource();

5. Close Command

Purpose: This command is use to close the current window of the browser, if it’s the last window it will close the browser.

driver.close();

6. Quit Command

Purpose: This command is use to quit the browser and all the opened windows in the browser.

driver.quit();

Selenium WebDriver Browser Navigation Commands

The navigate interface exposes the ability to move backwards and forwards in your browser’s history but navigate().to() and get() do exactly the same thing. One’s just a lot easier to type than the other.

To Command

Purpose : This command is use to navigate on specific page or URL in between the  test Command : driver.navigate().to(URL); Parameters : url – The URL to load. It is best to use a fully qualified URL

driver.navigate().to("http://www.gooogle.com");

Forward Command

Purpose : This command is use to go on to next page like browser’s forward button.

driver.navigate().forward();

Back Command

Purpose : This command is use to go back to previous page like browser’s back button.

driver.navigate().back();

Refresh Command

Purpose : This command is use to refresh the current page.

driver.navigate().refresh();

Selenium WebDriver Switch Window Commands

Some web applications have many frames or multiple windows. Selenium WebDriver assigns an alphanumeric id to each window as soon as the WebDriver object is instantiated. This unique alphanumeric id is called window handle. Selenium uses this unique id to switch control among several windows. In simple terms, each unique window has a unique ID, so that Selenium can differentiate when it is switching controls from one window to the other.

GetWindowHandle Command

Purpose: To get the window handle of the current window.

String  handle= driver.getWindowHandle();//Return a string of alphanumeric window handle

GetWindowHandles Command

Purpose: To get the window handle of all the current windows.

Set<String> handle= driver.getWindowHandles();//Return a set of window handle

SwitchTo Window Command

Purpose: WebDriver supports moving between named windows using the “switchTo” method.

driver.switchTo().window("windowName");

Or

Alternatively, you can pass a “window handle” to the “switchTo().window()” method. Knowing this, it’s possible to iterate over every open window like so:

for (String handle : driver.getWindowHandles()) {

driver.switchTo().window(handle);}

SwitchTo Frame Command

Purpose: WebDriver supports moving between named frames using the “switchTo” method.

driver.switchTo().frame("frameName");

SwitchTo PopUp Command

Purpose: WebDriver supports moving between named PopUps using the “switchTo” method. After you’ve triggered an action that opens a popup, you can access the alert and it will return the currently open alert object. With this object you can now accept, dismiss, read its contents or even type into a prompt. This interface works equally well on alerts, confirms, and prompts.

driver.switchTo().alert();