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What is the use of object repository in selenium?
An object repository is a centralized storage of locators in the form of objects. QAs store all the element locators in a separate file, also referred to as a property file (. properties) in Selenium. The property file stores information in a key-value pair format.
Which are the locators supported by the annotation FindBy ()?
@FindBy annotation can accept id, name, tagName, className, partialLinkText, linkText, and advanced locator strategies like XPath, CSS selectors as attributes.
How does FindBy work in selenium?
Page Factory is a class provided by Selenium WebDriver to support Page Object Design patterns. In Page Factory, testers use @FindBy annotation. The initElements method is used to initialize web elements. Similarly, one can use @FindBy with different location strategies to find web elements and perform actions on them.
What is object repository in selenium and how it works?
@Tanmay, Object Repository is used to store element locator values in a centralized location instead of hard coding them within the scripts. We do create a property file (. properties) to store all the element locators and these property files act as an object repository in Selenium WebDriver.
What is the hierarchy of TestNG annotation?
So the TestNG annotation hierarchy is followed first and then priority-based execution. The larger the priority number, the lower is its priority. So a method with priority 1 will run after the test with priority 0.
Can we create an object of the WebDriver () in Selenium?
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); We can create Object of a class FirefoxDriver by taking reference of an interface (WebDriver). If we use this statement in our script then the WebDriver driver can implement any browser. Every browser driver class implements WebDriver interface and we can get all the methods.
When to use the @ findby annotation in selenium?
The @FindBy annotation is used to locate one or more WebElements using a single criterion. For example, to identify all elements that have the same class attribute, we could use the following identification:
Is there a way to find both elements in selenium?
Both elements have a name attribute that we are going to use to identify them within a Page Object. The bothcriteria list should contain 0 elements, as there is no element that has both a name attribute with the value username and a name attribute with the value password.
How can I use WebDriver API to find WebElements?
You can also use Pagefactory, and have something like: Or you can use your own DOM Search plus Xpath, that would be outside of WebDriver API , but it should work. With the help of PageFactory class, we use annotations @FindBy to find WebElements.