CSS selectors perform far better than XPath selectors, and it is well documented in Selenium community. Here are some reasons: XPath engines are different in each browser, hence making them inconsistent Internet Explorer does not have a native XPath engine, and therefore Selenium injects its own XPath engine for compatibility of its API. Hence we … Read more
You could alternatively do: driver.findElements(By.id(“…”)).size() != 0 Which saves the nasty try/catch P.S.: Or more precisely by @JanHrcek here !driver.findElements(By.id(“…”)).isEmpty()
You can try to get the list of all elements with class = “content” by using find_elements_by_class_name: a = driver.find_elements_by_class_name(“content”) Then you can click on the link that you are looking for.
Here’s a general solution: def get_text_excluding_children(driver, element): return driver.execute_script(“”” return jQuery(arguments[0]).contents().filter(function() { return this.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE; }).text(); “””, element) The element passed to the function can be something obtained from the find_element…() methods (i.e., it can be a WebElement object). Or if you don’t have jQuery or don’t want to use it, you can replace … Read more
Use findElements instead of findElement. findElements will return an empty list if no matching elements are found instead of an exception. To check that an element is present, you could try this Boolean isPresent = driver.findElements(By.yourLocator).size() > 0 This will return true if at least one element is found and false if it does not … Read more
You are probably looking for get_attribute(). An example is shown here as well def test_chart_renders_from_url(self): url=”http://localhost:8000/analyse/” self.browser.get(url) org = driver.find_element_by_id(‘org’) # Find the value of org? val = org.get_attribute(“attribute name”)
This error message… selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {“method”:”name”,”selector”:”submitNext”} (Session info: chrome=66.0.3359.170) (Driver info: chromedriver=2.36.540470) …implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to locate the desired element. Locating the desired element As per the HTML you have shared to click on the element you can use either of the following Locator Strategies: … Read more
You can never be sure that element will be found, actually this is purpose of functional tests – to tell you if anything changed on your page. But one thing which definitely helps is to add waits for the elements which are often causing NoSuchElementException like WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, timeoutInSeconds); wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.id<locator>));
I like the general “test-step” idea. I’d term it as “incremental” testing and it makes most sense in functional testing scenarios IMHO. Here is a an implementation that doesn’t depend on internal details of pytest (except for the official hook extensions). Copy this into your conftest.py: import pytest def pytest_runtest_makereport(item, call): if “incremental” in item.keywords: … Read more
Chrome now has a headless mode: op = webdriver.ChromeOptions() op.add_argument(‘headless’) driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=op)