Practical WebDriverIO: Learn to Automate Effectively Using WebDriverIO APIs

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S. ShuklaPractical WebDriverIOhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6661-8_3

3. Browser APIs

Shashank Shukla¹  

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Mandla, India

 

Now that you have installed the WebdriverIO tool and learned how to locate an element in a web page, the next step is to develop a capability to perform actions on a located element. This chapter shows you how to perform various actions on a web page’s located elements. You learn various commands to interact with elements, and you learn how WebdriverIO implements them with ease. This chapter covers the following.

• Debugging

• Simple tasks like

  • Clicking an element

  • Getting an element’s text

  • Counting elements

• Complex tasks like

  • Dragging and dropping ...