How to use RemoteSessionStorage class of org.openqa.selenium.remote.html5 package

The best answer to this question is here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32278904/349169

WebElement elementOldPage = driver.findElement(By.id("yourid"));

... do login etc ...

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.stalenessOf(elementOldPage));

WebElement elementNewPage = driver.findElement(By.id("yourid"));

The fact that PhantomJS keeps sessions between tests is a known problem in GhostDriver, the Selenium Webdriver implementation in PhantomJS.

I suppose that this problem will be fixed with the PhantomJS 2 release. The bug is already fixed in GhostDriver 1.1.1, but there is no PhantomJS version which includes this GhostDriver version.

The difference of findElement between WebElement and WebDriver is the context.

Whereas the context of WebDriveris the current page, the context of WebElement is that element. WebDriver will search across the whole document, while WebElement will try to find the first child element from that node.

Note that when searching with WebElement via XPath, starting with // will still search across the entire document, not just the children of the current node. You can use .// to limit the search results to the children of that WebElement.

different dialogs handling using selenium webDriver:

import org.openqa.selenium.Alert;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class JavaScriptAlertTest {

public static void main(String[] args) {

    WebDriver myTestDriver = new FirefoxDriver();
    myTestDriver.get("...blablabla....");

    myTestDriver.manage().window().maximize();

    myTestDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value = 'alert']")).click();

    Alert javascriptAlert = myTestDriver.switchTo().alert();
    System.out.println(javascriptAlert.getText()); // Get text on alert box
    javascriptAlert.accept();

    System.out.println("*************prompt******************************************");

    myTestDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value = 'prompt']")).click();

    Alert javascriptprompt = myTestDriver.switchTo().alert();
    javascriptprompt.sendKeys("This is Selenium Training");

    System.out.println(javascriptprompt.getText()); // Get text on alert box

    javascriptprompt.accept();
    javascriptprompt = myTestDriver.switchTo().alert();

    System.out.println(javascriptprompt.getText()); // Get text on alert box
    javascriptprompt.accept();

    myTestDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value = 'prompt']")).click();

    javascriptprompt = myTestDriver.switchTo().alert();

    System.out.println(javascriptprompt.getText()); // Get text on alert box

    javascriptprompt.dismiss();
    javascriptprompt = myTestDriver.switchTo().alert();

    System.out.println(javascriptprompt.getText()); // Get text on alert box
    javascriptprompt.accept();

    System.out.println("***********************************confirm dialog box****************************");
    myTestDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value = 'confirm']")).click();

    Alert javascriptconfirm = myTestDriver.switchTo().alert();
    javascriptconfirm.accept();

    javascriptconfirm = myTestDriver.switchTo().alert();
    System.out.println(javascriptconfirm.getText()); // Get text on alert box
    javascriptconfirm.accept();

    myTestDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@value = 'confirm']")).click();
    javascriptconfirm = myTestDriver.switchTo().alert();

    javascriptconfirm.dismiss();
    javascriptconfirm = myTestDriver.switchTo().alert();
    System.out.println(javascriptconfirm.getText()); // Get text on alert box
    javascriptconfirm.accept();

}
}

Hope it helps you:)

To close a single browser window:

driver.close();

To close all (parent+child) browser windows and end the whole session:

driver.quit();

Don't use sleep!!!

public static WebElement findElement(WebDriver driver, By selector, long timeOutInSeconds) {
    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, timeOutInSeconds);
    wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(selector));

    return findElement(driver, selector);
}

You need to set the below URL to http://0.0.0.0:9515/wd/hub instead of ****:4723...

WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL(http://****:4723/wd/hub), capabilities);

Chromedriver's port defaults to 9515, not 4723. You should read the documentation on this. There are other capabilities that need to be set correctly (like BROWSER_NAME)

Currently, there is no way to clear the cache through the web driver API. However, if you can start a new instance of the browser each time, the cache should be cleared in FF and Chrome because a new profile is created on each launch.

The comments for issue #40 (Clear cache) in the Selenium issue tracker list two potential solutions to your problem if creating a new browser instance isn't possible:

1. Clear the IE cache from the command line
2. Disable the FF cache using a custom profile

HTH

You can actually do this "semi off the shelf": http://testng.org/doc/documentation-main.html#beanshell

In your particular case, it would be something like this:

<method-selectors>
  <method-selector>
    <script language="beanshell"><![CDATA[
       return groups.containsKey("tsg1.0") && groups.containsKey("smoke");
     ]]></script>
  </method-selector>
</method-selectors>

Just answered a similar question in more detail here: Is it possible to put a condition to TestNG to run the test if that is member of two groups?