Webdriver Methods

get()

Purpose: Its Opens Specified Url in the Browser Window

//Launch Browser

System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”,”D:\\Onlineqaclasses\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe”);

//ChromeDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();

System.setProperty(“webdriver.ie.driver”,”D:\\Onlineqaclasses\\IEDriverServer_Win32_2.53.0\\IEDriverServer.exe”);

InternetExplorerDriver driver=new InternetExplorerDriver();

//Using get()

driver.get(“http://www.onlineqaclasses.com”);

 getCurrentUrl()

Purpose: Its Returns title of the Browser

//Launch Browser

FirefoxDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

//Using get()

driver.get(“http://www.onlineqaclasses.com”);

//Using getCurrentUrl()

String url=driver.getCurrentUrl();

System.out.println(“Current page url is—> “+url);

getTitle()

Purpose: Gets the title of the current web page.

//Launch Browser

FirefoxDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

//Using get()

driver.get(“http://www.onlineqaclasses.com”);

//Using getCurrentUrl()

String title=driver.getTitle();

System.out.println(“Current page url is—> “+title);

getPageSource()

Purpose: Get the source of the currently loaded page.

//Launch Browser

FirefoxDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

//Using get()

driver.get(“http://www.onlineqaclasses.com”);

 

//Using getPageSource()

String pagesource=driver.getPageSource();

 

System.out.println(pagesource);

 

 findElement()

Purpose: Find the first WebElement using the given method.

//Launch Browser

FirefoxDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

//Using get()

driver.get(“http://www.onlineqaclasses.com”);

//Using findElement()

WebElement gmaillink=driver.findElement(By.className(“gb_P”));

//Getting name of link

System.out.println(“result element name :”+gmaillink.getText());

 

findElements()

Purpose: Find all elements within the current page using the given mechanism.

//Launch Browser

FirefoxDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

//Using get()

driver.get(“http://www.onlineqaclasses.com”);

//Using findElements()

List<WebElement> links=driver.findElements(By.TagName(“a”));

//Counting no of links in result page

System.out.println(“Number of Links in current page :”+links.size());

 

 

close()

Purpose: Close the current window, if there are multiple windows, it will close the current window which is active and quits the browser if it’s the last window opened currently.

//Launch Browser

FirefoxDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

//Using get()

driver.get(“http://www.onlineqaclasses.com”);

//Using close()

driver.close();

 

 quit()

Purpose: Quits this driver instance, closing every associated window which is opened.

//Launch Browser

FirefoxDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

//Using get()

driver.get(“http://www.onlineqaclasses.com”);

//Using quit()

driver.quit();

 

getWindowHandle()
Purpose: Whenever the web driver launches the browser it assigns the unique id to that browser which is called as window handler. This can be captured through the method.

Syntax: driver.getWindowhandle()

 

getWindowHandles()

Purpose:: Whenever multiple windows are opened by webdriver and we want to capture all their ids. We use this method.

Syntax: getWindowHandles()

 

switchTo():-

Purpose:used to switch from one window to another window (or) window to a frame (or)  frame to a window (or) window to an alert

Syntax: driver.switchTo().window();

driver.switchTo().frame();

driver.switchTo().alert();

 

 

navigate()
Purpose: An abstraction allowing the driver to access the browser’s history and to navigate to a given URL.&Refresh page
//Launch Browser

FirefoxDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

//Using get()

driver.get(“http://gmail.com”);

//navigate to page

driver.navigate().to(“http://onlineqaclasses.com “);

//navigate to back

driver.navigate().back();

//navigate to forward

driver.navigate().forward();

//navigate to refresh page

driver.navigate().refresh();

 

 

manage()

 

Purpose: This is used to perform various activities like maximize the size of the window, Cpture the information about the cookies, setting implicit wait etc.
//Launch Browser

FirefoxDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

//Using get()

driver.get(“http://gmail.com”);

//to maximize window

driver.manage().window().maximize();