Question

I am using selenium2.0 with testNG. While on using XPATH or CSS for element to locate its shows error “unable to locate the element” .
I have programmed in Java as
below:

public class mytest {

    public static WebDriver driver;
    public Alert alert;

    @BeforeClass
    public static void setUpBeforeClass() throws Exception {
        driver=new FirefoxDriver();

    driver.get("http://localhost:4503/xyz.html");

    }

    public static void clickButton(WebDriver driver, String identifyBy, String locator){
        if (identifyBy.equalsIgnoreCase("xpath")){
            driver.findElement(By.xpath(locator)).click();
        }else if (identifyBy.equalsIgnoreCase("id")){
            driver.findElement(By.id(locator)).click();
        }else if (identifyBy.equalsIgnoreCase("name")){
            driver.findElement(By.name(locator)).click();
        }

    }

    public static void typeinEditbox(WebDriver driver, String identifyBy, String locator, String valuetoType){
        if (identifyBy.equalsIgnoreCase("xpath")){
            driver.findElement(By.xpath(locator)).sendKeys(valuetoType);
        }else if (identifyBy.equalsIgnoreCase("id")){
            driver.findElement(By.id(locator)).sendKeys(valuetoType);
        }else if (identifyBy.equalsIgnoreCase("name")){
            driver.findElement(By.name(locator)).sendKeys(valuetoType);
        }

    }


    public static void openApplication(WebDriver driver, String url) {
        driver.get(url);
    }






    @Test
    public void testAcrolinxApplication() throws InterruptedException {
        openApplication(driver,"http://xyz.com");
        typeinEditbox(driver,"name","p_user","xxx");
        typeinEditbox(driver,"name","p_pas","yyy");
        clickButton(driver,"id","input-submit");

/*Up to this its working fine …..

At below line this throws error could not locate the xpath element "//a[@id='cq-gen100']/em/span/span" BUT THIS IS WOKING FINE IN Selenium1.0 api that is with 
selenium.click("//a[@id='cq-gen100']/em/span/span"); */

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@id='cq-gen100']/em/span/span")).click();




    }

}

Please help me on this.
Thanks in advance…

Answer 1

I have used
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
to wait for some time, Noew its working.