Question

I am back with more silly questions

1) How to fail a test if AssertEquals is false?

I have this code –

public boolean compareWidthPixels(By by, String expected) {
    System.out.println(driver.findElement(by).getCssValue("width"));
    try {
        assertEquals(expected, driver.findElement(by).getCssValue("width"));
        System.out.println("Width as expected");
        return true;

    } catch (Error e) {
        verificationErrors.append(e.toString());
        System.out.println("Width incorrect");
        return false;

    }

This code displays “Width incorrect” when the width does not match the expected value but the test case passes. I want the test to fail if the width are unequal.

2) How to assert/verify an Element is NOT present?

As a novice I tried many things I found in Google and here in Stack Overflow –
Assert that a WebElement is not present using Selenium WebDriver with java, Selenium WebDriver – Test if element is present, etc. But none of them worked. I am working with JUnit4 and need a function that should pass if the element is not present.

Thanks

Maitreya

P.S: Please feel free edit this question if it looks confusing or disoriented.

Answer 1

Answer 1: To use assert true or false you should use if else instead and then call the function by assert e.g.

public boolean compareWidthPixels(By by, String expected) {
    System.out.println(driver.findElement(by).getCssValue("width"));
    if (driver.findElement(by).getCssValue("width").equals(expected)){
        System.out.println("Width as expected");
        return true;
    } 
    System.out.println("Width incorrect");
    return false;
}

Then use compareWidthPixels as ‘AssertTrue(compareWidthPixels(by, expected))‘ in your test

Similarly for 2nd question you can use following

private boolean isElementPresent(By by) {
    try {
        driver.findElement(by);
        return true;
    } catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
        return false;
    }
}

using is element in assertions.