Unable to find the locator

Question

I am using selenium with maven and java language. I'm following page object design pattern. I tried so many times same error came. Anybody please correct this..
Here is the code.

html code:

 <ul id="leftMenu" class="clearfix">
           <li class="topmenu ltopmenu-display-event"><a href="http://qmsadm.local/dashboard"><span class="ico fa fa-fw
 fa-dashboard                                                          
 "></span>Dashboard</a></li><li class="topmenu
 ltopmenu-display-event"><a href="javascript:void(0)"><span class="ico
 fa fa-fw fa-globe                                                     
 "></span>Admin</a><ul><li><a
 href="http://qmsadm.local/admin/users"><span class="ico fa fa-fw
 fa-users                                                              
 "></span>Users</a></li><li><a
 href="http://qmsadm.local/admin/roles"><span class="ico fa fa-fw
 fa-user-md

PageObjects:

package pageobjects;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.FindBy;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.How;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;

/**
 * Created by naveen on 29/11/16.
 */
public class ClientPage {
    //add client
    @FindBy(linkText="Admin")
    WebElement admin;
    @FindBy(linkText="Clients")
    WebElement clients;
    @FindBy(how = How.XPATH, using = "//*[@id=\'search-container\']/a/i")
    WebElement addClient;
    @FindBy(how= How.ID, using= "name")
    WebElement name;
    @FindBy(how= How.ID, using= "group_id")
    WebElement group_dropdown;
    @FindBy(how= How.ID, using= "address")
    WebElement address;
    @FindBy(how= How.ID,using= "status")
    WebElement status_dropdown;
    @FindBy(how= How.ID, using= "lat")
    WebElement lat;
    @FindBy(how= How.ID, using= "lang")
    WebElement lang;
    @FindBy(how= How.CLASS_NAME, using= "btn-primary")
    WebElement buton;

    //click on admin
    public void clickOnAdmin()
    {
        admin.click();
    }
    public void clickOnClients(){clients.click();}
    public void clickOnAddClient()
    {
        addClient.click();
    }
    public void clickOnName(String nam)
    {
        name.sendKeys(nam);
    }
    public void select_List(String grpid)
    {
        Select group_id=new Select(group_dropdown);
        group_id.selectByVisibleText(grpid);
    }
    public void enterAddress(String add)
    {
        address.sendKeys(add);
    }
    public void select_status(String stat)
    {
        Select status=new Select(status_dropdown);
        status.selectByVisibleText(stat);
    }
    public void enter_Lat(String l)
    {
        lat.sendKeys(l);
    }
    public void enter_long(String lng)
    {
        lang.sendKeys(lng);
    }
    public void clickOnSubmit()
    {
        buton.click();
    }


}

Steps:

package steps;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.PageFactory;
import pageobjects.ClientPage;
import util.DriverManager;

/**
 * Created by naveen on 30/11/16.
 */
public class clientsteps {
    public ClientPage Login(String nam, String grp, String add, String st, String lat, String log)
    {
        ClientPage clientPageObj = PageFactory.initElements(DriverManager.driver,ClientPage.class);
        clientPageObj.clickOnAdmin();
        clientPageObj.clickOnClients();
        clientPageObj.clickOnAddClient();
        clientPageObj.clickOnName(nam);
        clientPageObj.select_List(grp);
        clientPageObj.enterAddress(add);
        clientPageObj.select_status(st);
        clientPageObj.enter_Lat(lat);
        clientPageObj.enter_long(log);
        clientPageObj.clickOnSubmit();
        return clientPageObj;
    }
}

Client:

package client;

import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.*;

import pageobjects.ClientPage;
import pageobjects.HomePage;
import steps.LoginSteps;
import steps.clientsteps;
import util.DriverManager;


import static util.DriverManager.driver;

public class clientTest
{
    @BeforeSuite(groups = {"regression"})
    public void initDriver(){
        DriverManager manager = new DriverManager();
    }
    @AfterSuite
    public void verifyValidLogintoSpree() {
        LoginSteps loginSteps = new LoginSteps();
        HomePage expected_message = loginSteps.Login("geosony", "1");
    }

    @Test
    public void verifyValidLoginWithDataProvider()
    {
        clientsteps log= new clientsteps();
        ClientPage ex = log.Login("guru99","Test Group","ekm","active","1","2");
        Assert.assertTrue(driver.getPageSource().contains("Hello Sony George"));

    }
}

testng.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE suite SYSTEM "http://testng.org/testng-1.0.dtd">
        <suite name="Regression">

        <parameter name="userName" value="geosony"/>
        <parameter name="password" value="1"/>
    <test name="regression">
        <groups>
            <run>
                <include name="regression"/>
                <exclude name="sanity"/>
            </run>
        </groups>
        <classes>
            <class name="login.loginTest"/>
            <class name="client.clientTest"/>
        </classes>
    </test>
</suite>

Console Error:

/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/java -ea
    -Didea.launcher.port=7536 
    -Didea.launcher.bin.path=/home/naveen/idea-IC-162.2228.15/bin 
    -Didea.testng.sm_runner 
    -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 
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      /home/naveen/idea-IC-162.2228.15/plugins/testng/lib/testng-plugin.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/charsets.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/cldrdata.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/dnsns.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/icedtea-sound.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/jaccess.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/nashorn.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/sunec.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/sunjce_provider.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/sunpkcs11.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/ext/zipfs.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/jce.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/jsse.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/management-agent.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/resources.jar:
      /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/rt.jar:
      /home/naveen/IdeaProjects/QberTestCase/target/test-classes;
      /home/naveen/IdeaProjects/QberTestCase/target/classes;
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-java/3.0.1/selenium-java-3.0.1.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-chrome-driver/3.0.1/selenium-chrome-driver-3.0.1.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-remote-driver/3.0.1/selenium-remote-driver-3.0.1.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-api/3.0.1/selenium-api-3.0.1.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/cglib/cglib-nodep/3.2.4/cglib-nodep-3.2.4.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-exec/1.3/commons-exec-1.3.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/com/google/code/gson/gson/2.3.1/gson-2.3.1.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/com/google/guava/guava/19.0/guava-19.0.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/net/java/dev/jna/jna-platform/4.1.0/jna-platform-4.1.0.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/net/java/dev/jna/jna/4.1.0/jna-4.1.0.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-edge-driver/3.0.1/selenium-edge-driver-3.0.1.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-firefox-driver/3.0.1/selenium-firefox-driver-3.0.1.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-ie-driver/3.0.1/selenium-ie-driver-3.0.1.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-opera-driver/3.0.1/selenium-opera-driver-3.0.1.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-safari-driver/3.0.1/selenium-safari-driver-3.0.1.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/io/netty/netty/3.5.7.Final/netty-3.5.7.Final.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/seleniumhq/selenium/selenium-support/3.0.1/selenium-support-3.0.1.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/junit/junit/4.12/junit-4.12.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/hamcrest/hamcrest-core/1.3/hamcrest-core-1.3.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/net/sourceforge/htmlunit/htmlunit/2.23/htmlunit-2.23.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/xalan/xalan/2.7.2/xalan-2.7.2.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/xalan/serializer/2.7.2/serializer-2.7.2.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.4/commons-lang3-3.4.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/apache/httpcomponents/httpclient/4.5.2/httpclient-4.5.2.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/apache/httpcomponents/httpcore/4.4.4/httpcore-4.4.4.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/apache/httpcomponents/httpmime/4.5.2/httpmime-4.5.2.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/commons-codec/commons-codec/1.10/commons-codec-1.10.jar:
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      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/net/sourceforge/htmlunit/neko-htmlunit/2.23/neko-htmlunit-2.23.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/xerces/xercesImpl/2.11.0/xercesImpl-2.11.0.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/xml-apis/xml-apis/1.4.01/xml-apis-1.4.01.jar:
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      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/websocket-common/9.2.15.v20160210/websocket-common-9.2.15.v20160210.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/websocket-api/9.2.15.v20160210/websocket-api-9.2.15.v20160210.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/testng/testng/6.9.13.6/testng-6.9.13.6.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/apache/ant/ant/1.9.7/ant-1.9.7.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/apache/ant/ant-launcher/1.9.7/ant-launcher-1.9.7.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/org/beanshell/bsh/2.0b4/bsh-2.0b4.jar:
      /home/naveen/.m2/repository/com/beust/jcommander/1.48/jcommander-1.48.jar:
      /home/naveen/idea-IC-162.2228.15/plugins/testng/lib/jcommander.jar
com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain
org.testng.RemoteTestNGStarter -port 45387 -usedefaultlisteners false
-socket41582 @w@/tmp/idea_working_dirs_testng.tmp -temp /tmp/idea_testng.tmp [TestNG] Running:  
/home/naveen/.IdeaIC2016.2/system/temp-testng-customsuite.xml Dec 02,
2016 11:20:18 AM org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake
createSession INFO: Attempting bi-dialect session, assuming Postel's
Law holds true on the remote end Dec 02, 2016 11:20:18 AM
org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake createSession INFO:
Detected dialect: OSS org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException:
Unable to locate element: {"method":"link text","selector":"Admin"}
Command duration or timeout: 73 milliseconds For documentation on this
error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html Build info:
version: '3.0.1', revision: '1969d75', time: '2016-10-18 09:49:13
-0700' System info: host: 'naveen-Inspiron-3542', ip: '127.0.1.1', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '4.4.0-47-generic',
java.version: '1.8.0_111' Driver info:
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver Capabilities
[{applicationCacheEnabled=true, rotatable=false, handlesAlerts=true,
databaseEnabled=true, version=45.0, platform=LINUX,
nativeEvents=false, acceptSslCerts=true, webStorageEnabled=true,
locationContextEnabled=true, browserName=firefox,
takesScreenshot=true, javascriptEnabled=true,
cssSelectorsEnabled=true}] Session ID:
9912e0b3-f2fe-4c4e-b85c-b91c97016e2c
*** Element info: {Using=link text, value=Admin} at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:216)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:168)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:635)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:368)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElementByLinkText(RemoteWebDriver.java:425)
at org.openqa.selenium.By$ByLinkText.findElement(By.java:246) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:360)
at org.openqa.selenium.support.pagefactory.DefaultElementLocator.findElement(DefaultElementLocator.java:69)
at org.openqa.selenium.support.pagefactory.internal.LocatingElementHandler.invoke(LocatingElementHandler.java:38)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy6.click(Unknown Source) at pageobjects.ClientPage.clickOnAdmin(ClientPage.java:37) at steps.clientsteps.Valid(clientsteps.java:14) 
at client.clientTest.verifyValidLoginWithDataProvider(clientTest.java:31)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:100)
at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:646) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:811) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:1137) at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:129)
at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:112)
at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:753) at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:607) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:368) 
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:363) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:321) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:270) 
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52) at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86) 
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1284) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1209) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1124) 
at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1096) at org.testng.IDEARemoteTestNG.run(IDEARemoteTestNG.java:72) at org.testng.RemoteTestNGStarter.main(RemoteTestNGStarter.java:124) 
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:147)
Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to
locate element: {"method":"link text","selector":"Admin"} For
documentation on this error, please visit:
http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html Build info:
version: '3.0.1', revision: '1969d75', time: '2016-10-18 09:49:13
-0700' System info: host: 'naveen-Inspiron-3542', ip: '127.0.1.1', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '4.4.0-47-generic',
java.version: '1.8.0_111' Driver info: driver.version: unknown at <anonymous class>.FirefoxDriver.prototype.findElementInternal_(file:///tmp/anonymous2341135334492972632webdriver-profile/extensions/[email protected]/components/driver-component.js:11187)
at <anonymous class>.FirefoxDriver.prototype.findElement(file:///tmp/anonymous2341135334492972632webdriver-profile/extensions/[email protected]/components/driver-component.js:11196)
at <anonymous class>.DelayedCommand.prototype.executeInternal_/h(file:///tmp/anonymous2341135334492972632webdriver-profile/extensions/[email protected]/components/command-processor.js:12705)
at <anonymous class>.DelayedCommand.prototype.executeInternal_(file:///tmp/anonymous2341135334492972632webdriver-profile/extensions/[email protected]/components/command-processor.js:12710)
at <anonymous class>.DelayedCommand.prototype.execute/<(file:///tmp/anonymous2341135334492972632webdriver-profile/extensions/[email protected]/components/command-processor.js:12652)

=============================================== Default Suite Total tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Skips: 0
===============================================


Process finished with exit code 0

Have you check following possibility : 1) @FindBy(linkText="Admin") present or not 2) Page is get load or not 3) Any other element is same as above — Sagar007, Commented Nov 30, 2016 at 13:26
@Sagar007 yes i check all the above mentioned. but it is not do automation. It will only open the browser and login. Can't find the linktext Admin — user21268, Commented Dec 1, 2016 at 3:42
@Grasshopper </span>Admin</a><ul><li><a href="qmsadm.local/admin/users"><span class="ico fa fa-fw fa-users — user21268, Commented Dec 1, 2016 at 5:45

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17 09:40:03Z

1

As per question information,

Current configuration is

Selenium 3.0.1
Firefox 45.0

As per this official blog Selenium 3.0.1 is using firefox version more than 48 and Geckodriver.

So Please update Firefox browser and and Geckodriver.

This line would only find if tag is anchor (<a>Admin</a>) in @FindBy(linkText="Admin")

So another solution is take new variance for find element.

Please change element as per under :

css path : "li[class='topmenu ltopmenu-display-event']>a>span"

xpath : "//li[contains(@class,'topmenu ltopmenu-display-event')]/a/span"

It would find your element.

edited Jun 17, 2020 at 9:40

CommunityBot

1

answered Dec 2, 2016 at 5:55

Sagar007

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ya i did now I got this error: org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"xpath","selector":"//li[contains(@class='topmenu ltopmenu-display-event')]/a/span"} Command duration or timeout: 49 milliseconds Error 2: org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"li[class='topmenu ltopmenu-display-event']>a>span"} Command duration or timeout: 27 milliseconds
– user21268
Commented Dec 2, 2016 at 6:05
@AntonyNaveen Your firefox version is 45 and selenium 3.0.1 is compatible after firefox 47. Please update firefox version.
– Sagar007
Commented Dec 2, 2016 at 6:12
i update firefox 45 to 50.0.2 now it came another error : org.openqa.selenium.firefox.NotConnectedException: Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055 after 45000 ms. Firefox console output: buntu Modifications","description":"Убунтівські доповнення до Firefox.","creator":"Canonical Ltd.","homepageURL":null},{"locales":["zh-CN"],"name":"Ubuntu Modifications","description":"Ubuntu 火狐扩展包.","creator":"Canonical Ltd.","homepageURL":null},{"locales":["zh-TW"],"name":"Ubuntu Modifications","description":"Ubuntu Firefox 擴充b0e-
– user21268
Commented Dec 2, 2016 at 6:32
Please use Geckodriver to connect with firefox. And If you can use chrome then you can verify your error would be removed now. learn-automation.com/…
– Sagar007
Commented Dec 2, 2016 at 6:34
i am using ubuntu.. this is the command i written for geckodriver.. System.setProperty("webdriver.firefox.marionette","pathToGeckodriver");
– user21268
Commented Dec 2, 2016 at 6:39

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