Assertion on Span Tag Value (Selenium Web Driver - C# MSTest - Specflow)

Question

I have a scenario, where I want to Assert the UI is displaying 'Active'.

When debugging the assertion, I am trying different methods.

This is what I started with:

Assert.IsTrue(webdriver.Text.Contains("Active")) 

but it is throwing an exception;

Assert.IsTrue failed

Any recommendations for properly verifying, that the UI displays Active?

Picture attached for reference.

Answer 1

Your best option is to find the element containing the text - webdriver refers to the selenium driver object that you use to find your elements.

The code could be something like this (accuracy is not guaranteed since I'm coding on the fly):

// Find all the span elements
List<IWebElement> spans = webdriver.FindElements(By.Tag("span"));
// use Linq to query the list for the span you want
IWebElement span = spans.Where(x => x.Text.Contains("Active"));
// And now assert that span is not null - that is, we found an element with text = "Active"
Assert.IsTrue(span != null);

There are other ways to do this, including finding by class, finding a unique parent and using XPath to navigate the DOM to your target element, and so on.

I suggest you experiment a bit and possibly look up the WebDriver API for more information.

Answer 2

You could use a one-liner that asserts a span with the text "Active" is present.

Assert.NotNull(driver.findElement(By.XPath("//span[text()='Active']")));

Answer 3

Shared screenshot is a common representation of objects containing structure & content of UI application. While working in a security testing services company we have automated this in multiple ways and one of the ways is using Sibling concept of Selenium WebDriver.

In this feature if a Parent object is known then web element can be easily found in your DOM (Data Object Model) or if unique sibling element is available, then you can navigate back to parent node and can find required element easily. For example - in this case, 'STATUS' looks a unique object in your entire web page and from DOM, 'Active' is sibling of 'Status', so you can try the following code -

Assert.assertTrue(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[text() = 'Status']//..//span[text() = 'Active']")).isDisplayed());