Approach for multilingual testing using selenium webdriver java

[Gaurav Sharma]

Hi,

I want to assert the chinese character and click on link text(i.e.  报告)

Can someone let me know the approach for multilingual testing using selenium webdriver java?

Thanks,

Gaurav Sharma

[David]

That would be new to me, but I'd assume you want to make sure your test language of choice can handle other languages and/or unicode? Hopefully, copy & paste of those text will work but not sure. In terms of handling the web element like clicking text, you're safer if you go by find by ID/name/XPath/CSS rather than the other language text in case of multilanguage support issues.

If copy & paste text and the characters show up funny in your test script/code, then it might not be supported or just a display problem.

[darrell grainger]

I guess the question is are you testing that the link text is a specific Chinese character? Or are you testing the link and it happens to be using a Chinese character? If you need to click the link and it doesn't matter that it is a Chinese character than you want to have some attribute on the link that never change when the language changes. For example <a href="some link here" qa-data='never changing attribute'>报告</a> then I find the link using the CSS "a[qa-data='never changing attribute']". The link text can change but the qa-data will always be the same.

Now if you  want to test that the link has the text 报告 then I would use a YAML file to change what you are looking for at run time. You write the test so it uses a variable for the text you are looking for. At run time you read in a YAML file with the actual text. This is probably how the developers write the website to use different language as well. You want to mimic this logic.