Question

While using Selenium 2, I have following statements scattered in test methods –

 driver.findElement(By.name(usernameBox)).sendKeys(userEmailAddress);

I think of abstracting them in static methods of a WebUtil class –

 public class WebUtils {

    public static void type(WebDeriver driver, String locator, String testData) {
         driver.findElement(By.name(locator)).sendKeys(testData);

    }
 }

And the method call would be –

  WebUtils.type(driver, usernameBox, userEmailAddress);

Could I improve it more, for example if I could avoid passing driver object every time, or some thing more?

Answer 1

I would suggest you extend the base class that you generally use and add your extension methods there.

here is an example to extend Selenium class.

public class MySelenium : WebDriverBackedSelenium
{
        public IWebDriver Driver { get; set; }

        public ISelenium Selenium { get; set; }


        public MySelenium(IWebDriver baseDriver, string baseUrl)
            : base(baseDriver, baseUrl)
        {
            Driver = baseDriver;
        }

        public MySelenium(IWebDriver baseDriver, Uri baseUrl)
            : base(baseDriver, baseUrl) { }

        public static void type(String locator, String testData) {
         Driver.findElement(By.name(locator)).sendKeys(testData);

    }

}

You initialize it as follows in a common class that is used by all your tests:

var driver =GetDriver(); //method to initialize driver
Selenium= new MySelenium(driver,baseUrl);    //Selenium is a protected variable accessible from your tests

Now you invoke type as follows:

 Selenium.type(userNameBox,"username");

P.S: Srry the above code is in c# but you can port it over to java..