Checking text on web page using WebDriver

While testing any web application, we need to make sure that it is displaying correct text under given elements. Selenium WebDriver provides a method to achieve this. We can retrieve the text from any WebElement using getText() method.

Example
Lets create a test that check for the proper text in flipkart menu tab.

Code:

@Test
public void testFlipkartMenuText() {
    //Get Text from first item and store it in String variable
    String electronics = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("li[data-key='electronics']>a>span")).getText();

    //Compare actual & required texts
    assertEquals("Electronics",electronics);  
}

The WebElement class' getText() method returns value of the innerText attribute
of the element.

P.S : Given script may not work on flipkart site. I've written this code just to give some basic idea of using getText() method.

isTextPresent() ? In WebDriver

While automation web applications in some places we want/need to check particular text is present or not.

In WebDriver (Selenium 2), there is no predefined method for checking this. (In Selenium-RC isTextPresent("text") built-in method exist ) So we need to implement our own method to achieve this.

Let us consider you are searching for text "WebDriver"


boolean isTextPrest=false;

Method-1

 isTextPrest=driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")).getText().contains("WebDriver");  

Method-2

 isTextPrest=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(.,'WebDriver')]")).isDisplayed();  

Method-3

 Selenium sel=new WebDriverBackedSelenium(driver, "");  
 isTextPresent=sel.isTextPresent("WebDriver");  

FYI : Method-1 will take more time than remaining (comparatively)

Happy Coding :)


Regards,
SantoshSarma