Selenium Framework Design in Data-Driven Testing

Multilocators

As we learned in earlier chapters, CSS and XPath locators support the use of AND and OR operators. What that means is that when defining locators for WebElements or MobileElements in a page object class, users can provide more than one locator to identify the element on the page. If an element ID, class, attribute, tag, or name changes in another release, the locator for that element can be changed in the page object class to support multiple locator types.

So, if the locator being used has some form of text attribute identifying it, and the application is re-branded, the user can wildcard the text to use a partial string match of something in common, or include both text strings using the OR operator, first using the CSS