Question

I’m a Selenium n00b… it’s clear how easy it is to run a test and verify a particular response, but how can I take a value from one response and use it in the next test?

an example might be a contact creation form…

1. type in name/email and click submit
2. response arrives with new ContactID
3. grab the ContactID that was returned and put it into “get” textbox and click “submit”
4. response arrives with contact details
5. verfy the name/email match the first set

how might I go about doing this in Selenium?

Answer 1

And now something completely different:

Now I understand when you say “test”, you mean a single assertion within one test case. So you want to use a value returned from a request as input for another request in the same test case.

Assuming you use selenium ide: To do this, use one of the “store…” commands in selenium ide and store the value into a variable. The contactID can be found using a matching selector with the storeText command. For example:

command: storeText
target: selector for element containing contactId
value: contactId

Then, use variable substitution and the type command to insert that text somewhere else.

command: type
target: selector for target input box
value: ${contactId}

Hope this helps 🙂