The Protractor Handbook: Understanding and Implementing the Tool Effectively

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S. ShuklaThe Protractor Handbookhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7289-3_2

2. Selenium-Inherited Web Locators

Shashank Shukla¹  

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Mandla, Madhya Pradesh, India

 

Now that your framework is installed and your first test case is running successfully, let’s proceed to the next step. This chapter explains how to locate the elements of a web page so that they can be interacted with. You will also learn about different locator strategies that Protractor inherits from Selenium WebDriver (webdriver.By) library, including the following.

• Taking a screenshot of an identified locator

• ID, class, and name locators

• tagName locator

• linkText and partialLinkText locators

• CSS and ...