How to use LoggingPreferences class of org.openqa.selenium.logging package

Selenium supports org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor. We can get the value of window.performance.memory.usedJSHeapSize at any stage during testing. Below is the code.

  public static void reportMemoryUsage(WebDriver webDriver, String message) {
    ((JavascriptExecutor) webDriver).executeScript("window.gc()");
    try {
        TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(2);
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        LOGGER.error(e.getLocalizedMessage());
    }
    Double usedJSHeapSize = (Double) ((JavascriptExecutor) webDriver)
            .executeScript("return window.performance.memory.usedJSHeapSize/1024/1024");
    LOGGER.info("Memory Usage at " + message + " - " + usedJSHeapSize + " MB ");
 }

Call this method from your test suite, one at beginning of the test and one at the end. Difference between two usedJSHeapSize values will give the memory leak.

I am forcing garbage collection before taking usedJSHeapSize, to make sure the there is no garbage information collected. To enable gc function on window, you will have to set the -js-flags=--expose-gc option.

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("-js-flags=--expose-gc");
WebDriver webDriver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Here's a couple of reasons off the top of my head:

1) You can hook your selenium tests into your build process (and hence your CI process).

2) You can use JUnit assertions.

3) You can build up multiple suites of JUnit tests (which can then be run in parallel).

I'm sure there's more but I guess it depends on the number of tests you have and the size of the project you are working on. If you're project already has a set of JUnit tests then it's quite nice to be able to write selenium tests without too much effort.

Given that Selenium doesn't seem to offer what I want directly (based on what Mike Kwan and Slanec said), this simple helper method is what I went with for now:

protected boolean isElementHiddenNow(String id) {
    turnOffImplicitWaits();
    boolean result = ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(By.id(id)).apply(driver);
    turnOnImplicitWaits();
    return result;
}

private void turnOffImplicitWaits() {
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(0, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
}

private void turnOnImplicitWaits() {
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
}

If the element is hidden or not present at all, the method returns true; if it is visible, returns false. Either way, the check is done instantly.

Using the above is at least much cleaner than littering the test cases themselves with calls to turnOffImplicitWaits() and turnOnImplicitWaits().

See also these answers for fined-tuned versions of the same approach:

• Using try-finally to turn implicit waits back on
• Using By locator as the parameter

After some hours I finally found a solution by using Actions without JavascriptExecuter:

Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
actions.moveToElement(website);
actions.click();
actions.sendKeys("Some Name");
actions.build().perform();

Well, it worked for me. However, is this way the better solution ?

    psdbComponent.clickDocumentLink();
    ArrayList<String> tabs2 = new ArrayList<String> (driver.getWindowHandles());
    driver.switchTo().window(tabs2.get(1));
    driver.close();
    driver.switchTo().window(tabs2.get(0));

This code perfectly worked for me. Try it out. You always need to switch your driver to new tab, before you want to do something on new tab.

There is a very good plugin that can be used with selenium project shadow-automation-selenium. It helps in writing much better, readable and maintainable code. Using this you can access multi level of shadow DOM (upto 4 levels ) . This uses simple css selector to identify elements.

WebElement findElement(String cssSelector) : use this method if want single element from DOM

List<WebElement> findElements(String cssSelector) : use this if you want to find all elements from DOM

WebElement findElements(WebElement parent, String cssSelector) : use this if you want to find a single elements from parent object DOM

List<WebElement> findElements(WebElement parent, String cssSelector) : use this if you want to find all elements from parent object DOM

WebElement getShadowElement(WebElement parent,String selector) : use this if you want to find a single element from parent DOM

List<WebElement> getAllShadowElement(WebElement parent,String selector) : use this if you want to find all elements from parent DOM

boolean isVisible(WebElement element) : use this if you want to find visibility of element

boolean isChecked(WebElement element) : use this if you want to check if checkbox is selected

boolean isDisabled(WebElement element) : use this if you want to check if element is disabled

String getAttribute(WebElement element,String attribute) : use this if you want to get attribute like aria-selected and other custom attributes of elements.

void selectCheckbox(String label) : use this to select checkbox element using label.

void selectCheckbox(WebElement parentElement, String label) : use this to select checkbox element using label.

void selectRadio(String label) : use this to select radio element using label.

void selectRadio(WebElement parentElement, String label) : use this to select radio element from parent DOM using label.

void selectDropdown(String label) : use this to select dropdown list item using label (use this if only one dropdown is present or loaded on UI).

void selectDropdown(WebElement parentElement, String label) : use this to select dropdown list item from parent DOM using label.

How to use this plugin: You will have to dependency in your project.

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.github.sukgu</groupId>
  <artifactId>automation</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.4</version>
<dependency>

for html tag that resides under a shadow-root dom element

<properties-page id="settingsPage"> 
  <textarea id="textarea">
</properties-page>

You can use this code in your framework to grab the textarea element Object.

  import io.github.sukgu.*;
  Shadow shadow = new Shadow(driver);
  WebElement element = shadow.findElement("properties-page#settingsPage>textarea#textarea");
  String text = element.getText();

This is what I have been doing and it has worked so far for me.

ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.addArgument("--log-level=3");
chromeOptions.addArgument("--silent");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);

I've seen this question pop up a few times in the last maybe year or so and I've wanted to try writing this function... so here you go. It takes the parent element and removes each child's textContent until what remains is the textNode. I've tested this on your HTML and it works.

/**
 * Takes a parent element and strips out the textContent of all child elements and returns textNode content only
 * 
 * @param e
 *            the parent element
 * @return the text from the child textNodes
 */
public static String getTextNode(WebElement e)
{
    String text = e.getText().trim();
    List<WebElement> children = e.findElements(By.xpath("./*"));
    for (WebElement child : children)
    {
        text = text.replaceFirst(child.getText(), "").trim();
    }
    return text;
}

and you call it

System.out.println(getTextNode(driver.findElement(By.id("one"))));

Maybe the span element is hidden. If that's the case then use the innerHtml property:

By.css:

String kk = wd.findElement(By.cssSelector("#customSelect_3 span.selectLabel"))
              .getAttribute("innerHTML");

By.xpath:

String kk = wd.findElement(By.xpath(
                   "//*[@id='customSelect_3']/.//span[contains(@class,'selectLabel')]"))
              .getAttribute("innerHTML");

"/.//" means "look under the selected element".