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@FindBy( how = How.XPATH,
         using = "//div[@class='dynamic-main-content']
                     //div[label[text()='Number of At Fault Claim Free Years']]
                        /select" )

In the actual HTML there is a break in the label text. How should we write the XPATH?

Solution: Don't use [text()='the text'], use [normalize-space(.)='the text']. 

Using . rather than text() makes your code resilient to things such as comments (or element markup) appearing within the text you are matching.

 

The code below explains how t select a Radio button on any WebPage.

Because of Ajax on websites sometimes we need to reload the elements so we need to try and locate the element on the page so we use a for loop

public static RadioButton getRadio( WebDriver driver, String label, String locator )

{

RadioButton radio = null;

int i = 0;

while ( true )

{

i++ ;

try

{

radio = new RadioButton( label,

driver.findElement( By.xpath( locator ) ) );

break;

}

catch ( StaleElementReferenceException e )

{

sleep( 50 );

}

if ( i > 10 )

{

System.out.println( “[WARNING] Unable to find RadioButton 10 attempts” );

break;

}

}

return radio;

}

Page Factory class involves the following:

• Defining all the HTML elements on the HTML Page
• Getting XPATH Id’s of all the page elements
• Writing Methods that involve interaction of the elements that can be used on the actual Test Class Page

Code Sample: