Selenium WebDriver Quick Start Guide

Properties file for WebElements

We have explored WebElements to a large extent. Now we will actually start preparing for the hybrid framework (we will look at this in a later chapter) by creating a WebElement store. This store will be created in a file known as the properties file, which always has the .properties extension. An example entry in the properties file can be:

USERNAME=//*[@name='username'] 

Entries in the properties file consist of key value pairs. Here, username is the key and '//*[@name='username'] ' is the value. 

The key in a properties file should always be unique. The value part can have duplicate values.

These values should be retrieved by the code once the key is supplied. For this purpose, we will be writing a retrieval ...