Action Commands in Selenium

Selenium commands consists of two parameters:
1. Locator: for identifying a UI element within a page.
2. Text pattern: for verifying or asserting expected page content.

The following are the commands used:
1. Open Statement
2. Check Statement
3. Click Statement
4. Select Statement
5. Type Statement
6. Wait For Page to Load
7. Wait For Element Present
8. Set Time Out Statement
9. Store Commands
9.1. Store Element Present
9.2. Store Text
9.3. Store Eval

1. Open Command -- Tells the Browser to Open the URL
Syntax: open(String url)
private static final String BASE_URL = http://www.google.com/
selenium.open(BASE_URL)

2. Check
Syntax: check(String locator)
selenium.check("id=checkBoxInput");

3. Click--performs a Click operation, optionally waits for a new page to load
(button, link, checkbox or radio button.)
Syntax: Click(String locator)
selenium.click("link=Images");

4. Select-- Select options from the drop-down listbox
Syntax: select(String locator, String value)

5. Type-- Types text in the text field
Syntax: type(String locator, String value)
We can use selenium.type commands in one of the following ways
selenium.type("name=q","testing");
selenium.type("xpath=//input[@name='q']","testing");
selenium.type("//*[@name='q']","testing");

6. waitForPageToLoad -- waits for a new page to load
Syntax: waitForPageToLoad(String timeoutinMilliSeconds)
public static final String MAX_TIME = "60000"
selenium.waitForPageToLoad(MAX_TIME)

7. WaitforElementPauses execution until an expected UI element as defined by HTML Tag is present on the page
Syntax: setTimeout("50000");

8. setTimeout
--Overrides Default Timeout value of Selenium
Syntax: setTimeout("50000");

9. Store Commands and Selenium Variables
Selenium variables can be used to store values passed to your test program from the command-line, from another program, or from a file.

It takes two parameters, the text value to be stored and a selenium variables.

Use the standard variable naming conventions of only alphanumeric characters when choosing a name for your variable

store paul@gmail.com userName

To access the value of a variable, enclose the variable in curly brackets ({}) and precede it with a dollar sign like this.

verifyText //div/p ${userName}

9.1. storeElementPresent
It stores a boolean value - "true" or "false" - depending on whether the UI element is found.

9.2. storeText
It uses a locater to identify specific page test. The text, if found, is stored in the variable.

9.3. storeEval
StoreEval allows the test to store the result of running the script in a variable.

We can get information from a page using the following commands.
1. Get Title
2. Get Text
3. getSelectedValue Statement
4. Is Something Selected Statement
5. Get Title Statement
6. Get Text
7. Get Value
8. Is Editable
9. Is Element Present
10. Get Selected Label
11. getSelectedValue Statement
12. isChecked
13. isSomethingSelected Statement
14. verify Title
15. verify Text Present
16. verify Element Present
17. verify text
18. verify Table

Get Title -- Gets the title of the current page
Syntax: getTitle()
Example: private status final String TEST_PAGE_TITLE = "My Page"
assertEquals(TEST_PAGE_TITILE, selenium.getTitle());

getText -- Gets the Text of the element
Syntax: getText(String locator)
Example: assertEquals("Text in the fields","selenium.getValue("id=textInput"));

Get Value
getValue(String locator)
Example: assertEquals("option two",selenium.getValue("id=selectWithLabelsOnly"));

Is Editable
Syntax: isEditable(String locator)

Is Element Present
Syntax: isElementPresent(String locator)
assertTrue(selenium.isElementPresent("id=textInput"));

Get Selected Label
getSelectedLabel(String locator)
assertEquals("option two",selenium.getSelectedLabel("id=selectWithLabelsOnly"));

getSelectedValue Statement
Syntax: getSelectedValue(String locator)
Example: assertEquals("2",selenium.getSelectedValue("id=selectWithLabelsAndValues"));


isSomethingSelected Statement
isSomethingSelected(String locator)
Example: assertTrue(selenium.isSomethingSelected("id=selectwithLabelsOnly"));

isChecked
Syntax: isChecked(String locator)
Example:
assertTrue(selenium.isChecked("id=checkBoxInput"));
assertTrue(selenium.isChecked("name=radioButton value=a"));

getAlert()

verifyTitle/AssertTitle verifies an expected page title

verifyTextPresent This command is used to verify specific text is somewhere on the page. It takes a single argument the text pattern to be verified.
Example: selenium.verifyTextPresent("Testing")


verifyElementPresent This command verifies whether an expected UI element, as defined by its HTML tag, is present on the page. This verification does not check the text, only HTML Tag.
Example: Command which verifies the existence of tag.
verifyElementPresent //div/p/img

verifyText verifies expected text and it's corresponding HTML tag are present on the page.

verifyTableverifies a table's expected contents.