CSS selectors

For selecting a particular column in a table.

XPATH : //table[@class='stb']//tr[2]/td[2]

CSS : css=table.stb tr:nth-child(2)>td:nth-child(1)

XPATH : //input[@name="myName"]

CSS : css=input[name=myName]

 XPATH : //a[@title="Sign In"]

CSS : css=a[title='Sign In']

css=a.addthis_counter>a:nth-child(2)

a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style"  //With space btw css

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[class~='addthis_bubble_style']"));

More information here

Using properties file

There are a number of ways to perform data driven testing. Here i will mention how to use a properties file to get data and use it for testing purpose.   


        InputStream is = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/conf/datasuite.properties"); 
        Properties prop = new Properties(); 
        prop.load(is);
        String directory = prop.getProperty("Directory"); 
        String numberOfFiles = prop.getProperty("NumberOfFiles"); 
        String  fileExtension = prop.getProperty("Extension"); 
        is.close();
       
        System.out.println(directory+" "+numberOfFiles+" "+fileExtension);

Contents of datasuite.properties file.

       Directory = C:/prodFiles/
       NumberOfFiles = 25
       Extension = javaworlddfg


One thing to note is that the 'conf' folder is referenced with respect to the class files created.

Check mails using Java

 Instead of automating logging into gmail and checking each mail use the below code to get the contents of required mail 

Properties props = System.getProperties();
        props.setProperty("mail.store.protocol", "imaps");
        try {
            Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(props, null);
            Store store = session.getStore("imaps");
            store.connect("imap.gmail.com", "xxxxx@gmail.com", "xxxxxx");
            System.out.println("Store : "+store);

            Folder inbox = store.getFolder("Inbox");
            inbox.open(Folder.READ_ONLY);
            System.out.println("Messge count "+inbox.getUnreadMessageCount());

            Message messages[] = inbox.search(new SubjectTerm("Flags.Flag (JavaMail API documentation)"), inbox.getMessages());
            Date date = new Date();
            System.out.println("Date "+date);

            for (Message message : messages) {
                System.out.println("Seen Flag "+message.isSet(Flags.Flag.SEEN));
                System.out.println("Messge Send Date "+message.getSentDate());

                if(!message.isSet(Flags.Flag.SEEN)){
                    if(date.compareTo(message.getSentDate())<=0){
                        String line;
                        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
                        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(message.getInputStream()));
                        while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                            buffer.append(line);
                        }
                        System.out.println(buffer);
                    }
                }
            }
        } catch (MessagingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.exit(2);
        }

Selenium test report as mail attachment

Consider a situation where an user wants to mail the reports after all the automation tests have been done. Maven has provided with a plugin maven-postman-plugin.  It is available in the maven repo.

<plugin>
        <groupId>ch.fortysix</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-postman-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
            <mailhost>smtp.gmail.com</mailhost>
            <mailport>465</mailport>
            <mailssl>true</mailssl>
            <mailAltConfig>true</mailAltConfig>
            <mailuser>xxxx@gmail.com</mailuser>
            <mailpassword>xxxxxxx</mailpassword>
            <from>your_gmail_emailer_account@gmail.com</from>
            <receivers>
                <receiver>receipient@domain.com</receiver>
            </receivers>

            <subject>Important subject</subject>
            <failonerror>true</failonerror>
            <htmlMessage>
                    <![CDATA[
                    <p>Hi,</p>
                    <p>Check out the attached report.</p>
                    ]]>
            </htmlMessage>
            <fileSets>
                <fileSet>
                    <directory>${basedir}/${tests}</directory>
                    <includes>
                        <include>**/emailable-report.html</include>
                    </includes>
                </fileSet>
            </fileSets>
        </configuration>
    </plugin>

The above configuration will send the emailable-report.html as an attachment to all the recipients. If can be configured to send mail at any phase of maven. The following command is used to send mail after the test phase mvn test postman:send-mail.

Will send the mail after the test phase.

Data providers for selenium

  There are different methods to provide data to selenium tests.

One of these is using the properties file. User can store the data in properties file and use its content for the selenium test

Here is a properties file with some content. Name it as datasuite.properties
     
      Directory = C:/prodFiles/

      NumberOfFiles = 25

      Extension = javaworld

and the corresponding java code to manipulate it

        InputStream is = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/conf/datasuite.properties");  

        Properties prop = new Properties();  

        prop.load(is); 

        String directory = prop.getProperty("Directory");  

        String numberOfFiles = prop.getProperty("NumberOfFiles");  

        String  fileExtension = prop.getProperty("Extension");  

        is.close(); 

        

        System.out.println(directory+" "+numberOfFiles+" "+fileExtension);

Below is the folder structure

src/main/java(Source Folder)

>com(Package)

  >DataDrivenTest.java

src/main/resource(Source Folder)

>conf(Package)

 >datasuite.properties