Welcome to the Selenium Automation Free training tutorial. We have seen the following stuff so far in the last tutorials:
- Created a successful test script.
- How to assert the title of the webpage, and what are the scenarios where we can use it?
- What are Web elements & locators?
As we mentioned, we will talk about the methods or commands of Selenium WebDriver in this tutorial. So, what we do is we will classify methods of WebDriver into 3 categories:
- Browser methods or commands
- Navigation methods or commands
- Web elements methods or commands
and every category will have code snippets to understand methods and their uses.
Selenium Webdriver Browser command/methods
All right. Let’s jump on the category Browser methods or commands. Rest 2 we will talk about in the upcoming tutorials:
1. Get command
Method: get(String arg0)
This method helps to load the web pages in the browser that we pass in a given parameter.
Return: void
Parameters: one parameter for URL.
Example:
driver.get("https://www.qaonlinetraining.com");
The above code snippet will open the qaonlinetraining website in the browser.
2. Get Title command
Method: getTitle()
This method returns the title of a webpage in a String object.
Return: String
Parameters: no parameter.
Example:
driver.getTitle();
3. Get Current URL Command
Method: getCurrentUrl()
This method returns the URL of the current page loaded on the current browser tab in String format.
Return: URL in string format.
Parameters: no parameter.
Example:
driver.getCurrentUrl();
4. Get Page Source Command
Method: getPageSource()
This method returns the page source of the current page loaded on the current browser tab in String format.
Return: page source in string format.
Parameters: no parameter.
Example:
driver.getPageSource();
5. Close Command
Method: close()
Return: void
Parameters: no parameter
Example:
driver.close();
6. Quit Command
Method: quit()
It works like the close command, but the only difference is it will terminate all tabs and browser as well with WebDriver session.
Return: void
Parameters: no parameter
driver.quit();
These all are browser methods. Let’s work on some codes and understand how to use these methods:
Selenium Webdriver script with Browser get method
1. In this script, we will open https://www.qaonlinetraining.com, get the title of the page, assert the title of the web page, and close it.
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class AssertTitle {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Program Files\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
//open https://www.qaonlinetraining.com
driver.get("https://www.qaonlinetraining.com/");
String expectedTitle = "QA Training in Virginia | Selenium Testing Course Online USA | Job placement |";
//get the title of the page
String actualTitle = driver.getTitle();
//assert the actual title of the web page with expected title.
Assert.assertEquals(actualTitle, expectedTitle);
//close the webdriver
driver.close();
}
}
Selenium Webdriver script with Browser getCurrentUrl method
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class AssertURL {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Program Files\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
String expectedUrl = "https://www.qaonlinetraining.com";
//open https://www.qaonlinetraining.com
driver.get(expectedUrl);
//get the current URL of the page
String actualUrl = driver.getCurrentUrl();
//assert the achieved URL with opened one
Assert.assertEquals(actualUrl, expectedUrl);
//terminate the browser by calling the quit method
driver.quit();
}
}
This script will help to check the redirection of URLs. If the current URL and given URL are different, it means the website link is redirecting to another source.
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Selenium Webdriver script with Browser getPageSource method
3. In this script, we will open https://www.qaonlinetraining.com, get the source code of the web page and check the length of the web page content, and last will close the browser.
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class CheckLengthSourceCode {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Program Files\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
String expectedUrl = "https://www.qaonlinetraining.com";
// open https://www.qaonlinetraining.com
driver.get(expectedUrl);
// get the source code of the web page
String sourceCode = driver.getPageSource();
// check the length of the web page content
System.out.println("Web page length is " + sourceCode.length());
//last will close the browser.
driver.quit();
}
}
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Conclusion
All right. We hope you understood all the browser methods of Selenium WebDriver. In the next tutorial, we will talk about Navigation methods or commands.
Happy Learning until then!
