Frequently Asked Questions based on Locating Strategies By ID Using Java

What is Selenium?

Ans: Selenium is a free and open-source web application automation tool. Also, we can call it a Functional Testing web application automation tool. Not used for window-based applications.

• It will support multiple browsers
• It will support different operating systems
• and also supports multiple languages

What are The Locators?

Ans: Locators are used to identify the web elements. In Selenium if we want to perform any action like typing in a textbox, or clicking buttons before these actions we should find the element using locators. In Selenium there are eight types of locators. All of them are static methods in By class. All the methods take a string as an argument and it returns an object of type By. The By object is used as an input argument for the findElement() method. The return type of the findElement() method is WebElement (I).

List Of Locators:

By.tagName

• By.id
• By.name
• By.className
• By.linkText
• By.partialTextLink
• By.cssSelector
• By.xpath

If an ID is not there for a particular web element what is the solution?

Ans: Id, name, and class name are available as attributes of an element to handle the single element we use findElement(). return type of findElement() is WebElement. In findElement(), if the specified locator does not match with any element it will throw NoSuchElementException. Or if the specified locator is matching with multiple elements it will return the address of the first matching element. If we can not identify the element by using any of the above locators, then we can identify that element by using cssSelector.

Here we are going to discuss locating a particular web element using the value of its id