Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#: Practical Testing Solutions for Selenium WebDriver

© Courtney Zhan, Edited by Zhimin Zhan 2024

Z. Zhan (ed.)Selenium WebDriver Recipes in C#https://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0023-8_21

21. Optimization

Courtney Zhan¹  

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Fitzgibbon, QLD, Australia

 

Working test scripts is just the first test step to successful test automation. Automated tests are meant to be executed often, and we all know that applications change frequently, too. Therefore, it is important that your test scripts are the following:

• Fast

• Easy to read

• Concise

In this chapter, we will show some examples of optimizing test scripts.

Assert Text in a Page Source Is Faster Than the Text

To verify a piece of text on a web page, frequently for assertion, you can use driver.PageSource or driver.FindElement(By.TagName("body")).Text. Besides the obvious ...