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I need help on choosing locators while writing selenium script…
what are the differences between using XPath, CSS, identifiers?
Is XPath preferred over the others? If so, why?
CSS would be my choice for speed in execution and readability/maintainability. Further, CSS locators probably witness the least amount of change in an iterative environment (as opposed to changing link names, captions, etc.). The only downside to using CSS is the lack of in-built support within the IDE for formulating them.
Here is a great post articulating why CSS is the locator of choice 🙂