What is the best way to verify/assert an attribute is absent/not present
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ejmowrer
Sep 15, 2010, 8:03:48 PM9/15/10
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I'm currently limited to just Selenium Core and the IDE.
verifyAttribute won't work for me because I need to check if the
attribute is absent and verifyNotAttribute is strictly concerned with
the value of the attribute and not its existence (in other words it
will error out if the attribute is not there).
I've seen references to setting up error handling to catch this in
various languages, but I don't think I have that option with straight
Selenium Core (unless I want to make my own extension or fiddle around
with executing some sort of a javascript function that does this
assertion for me). Are there any other options that will work for me
straight out of the box?
ejm
verifyAttribute won't work for me because I need to check if the
attribute is absent and verifyNotAttribute is strictly concerned with
the value of the attribute and not its existence (in other words it
will error out if the attribute is not there).
I've seen references to setting up error handling to catch this in
various languages, but I don't think I have that option with straight
Selenium Core (unless I want to make my own extension or fiddle around
with executing some sort of a javascript function that does this
assertion for me). Are there any other options that will work for me
straight out of the box?
ejm
Bob Zakes
Sep 20, 2010, 2:12:21 PM9/20/10
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Have you tried verifyElementNotPresent ?
Bindu Laxminarayan
Sep 20, 2010, 4:02:24 PM9/20/10
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Bob is correct. You can use verifyElementNotPresent, but identify the
locator with the attribute you want to test.
For Example:
Navigate to http://www.hexbytes.com
Here you will find an element: <a href="http://
www.hexbytes.com">Hexbytes</a>
Now if you want to verify the existence of an attribute id for the
above element, you can use verifyElementNotPresent-Function and //
a[@id] as a locator. Run the test.
Selenium IDE script for this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://
www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head profile="http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/profiles/test-case">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="selenium.base" href="" />
<title>New Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1">
<thead>
<tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="3">New Test</td></tr>
</thead><tbody>
<tr>
<td>verifyElementNotPresent</td>
<td>//a[@id]</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</body>
</html>
Thanks
Bindu Laxminarayan
locator with the attribute you want to test.
For Example:
Navigate to http://www.hexbytes.com
Here you will find an element: <a href="http://
www.hexbytes.com">Hexbytes</a>
Now if you want to verify the existence of an attribute id for the
above element, you can use verifyElementNotPresent-Function and //
a[@id] as a locator. Run the test.
Selenium IDE script for this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://
www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head profile="http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/profiles/test-case">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="selenium.base" href="" />
<title>New Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1">
<thead>
<tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="3">New Test</td></tr>
</thead><tbody>
<tr>
<td>verifyElementNotPresent</td>
<td>//a[@id]</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</body>
</html>
Thanks
Bindu Laxminarayan
ejmowrer
Sep 21, 2010, 12:13:09 PM9/21/10
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Thanks Bindu,
That sounds like it should work for me. I'll give it a try. Thanks!
ejm
On Sep 20, 1:02 pm, Bindu Laxminarayan <bindu.laxminara...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Here you will find an element: <a href="http://www.hexbytes.com">Hexbytes</a>
> > > ejm- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
That sounds like it should work for me. I'll give it a try. Thanks!
ejm
On Sep 20, 1:02 pm, Bindu Laxminarayan <bindu.laxminara...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Bob is correct. You can use verifyElementNotPresent, but identify the
> locator with the attribute you want to test.
>
> For Example:
>
> Navigate tohttp://www.hexbytes.com
> locator with the attribute you want to test.
>
> For Example:
>
>
> Here you will find an element: <a href="http://www.hexbytes.com">Hexbytes</a>
>
> - Show quoted text -
redevill
Sep 23, 2010, 9:46:56 AM9/23/10
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Perhaps you can help me.
I am trying to something similar. Only I want to check that part of
the attribute exists.
In your example I'd like to do something like:
substring(a[@id='MyAttr'],1,5)
The substring gives me an error.
Is there an alternative?
Thanks
On Sep 20, 4:02 pm, Bindu Laxminarayan <bindu.laxminara...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Here you will find an element: <a href="http://www.hexbytes.com">Hexbytes</a>
I am trying to something similar. Only I want to check that part of
the attribute exists.
In your example I'd like to do something like:
substring(a[@id='MyAttr'],1,5)
The substring gives me an error.
Is there an alternative?
Thanks
On Sep 20, 4:02 pm, Bindu Laxminarayan <bindu.laxminara...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Bob is correct. You can use verifyElementNotPresent, but identify the
> locator with the attribute you want to test.
>
> For Example:
>
> Navigate tohttp://www.hexbytes.com
> locator with the attribute you want to test.
>
> For Example:
>
>
> Here you will find an element: <a href="http://www.hexbytes.com">Hexbytes</a>
Jayakumar C
Sep 24, 2010, 3:01:57 AM9/24/10
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Try,
verifyAttribute | locator@attribute | glob:*some text*
You can also use 'regexp' in place of 'glob'
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verifyAttribute | locator@attribute | glob:*some text*
You can also use 'regexp' in place of 'glob'
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