The Software Professionals: Working with radio Buttons & Lists in Selenium IDE

Friday, October 18, 2013

In this post I will discuss

1. Example to click & verify clicked Radio Button

2. Example to check multiple items in a list, verify if they are checked.

3. To extract the count of items in a list

Sample Code Used

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<body>

<p><b>Note:</b> Sample Radio Buttons Script.</p>

<form action="">

<input type="radio" name="sex" value="male">Male<br>

<input type="radio" name="sex" value="female">Female

</form>

<p><b>Note:</b> Sample Drop Down Script.</p>

<form action="">

<select name="cars" size="5" multiple="multiple">

<option value="volvo">Volvo</option>

<option value="saab">Saab</option>

<option value="vw">VW</option>

<option value="audi">Audi</option>

</select>

</form>

</body>

</html>

Selenium Code

Decoding the selenium code

Example 1

Line 1 – Opening the desired Web Application. Command used: open

Line 2 – Clicking the desired radio button (female, in this case). Command used: click

Line 3 – Verifying that Radio button is clicked.Command used: verifyChecked

Example 2

Line 4 – Remove all defaults selections in the list. Command used: removeAlllSelections

Line 5 – Select VW. Command used:

Line 6 – Select Audi (Note different ways of selecting options). Command used: addSelection

Line 7 – Verify that only 2 values i.e. ‘vw’ & ‘audi’ are selected. Command used: verifySelectedValues

Line 8 – Remove one of the Selections ‘VW’. Command used: removeSelection

Example 3

Line 9 – Storing the count of items in list in a variable ‘count’. Command used: storeXpathCount

Line10 - Displaying the value of variable ‘count’. Command used: echo

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