Browsers provide various navigation methods to access web pages from the browser history or by refreshing the current page with the back, forward, and refresh/reload buttons on the browser window's toolbar. The Selenium WebDriver API provides access to these buttons with various methods of WebDriver.Navigation interface. We can test the behavior of the application when these methods are used.
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This method loads the specified URL in the current browser window. |
In this recipe, we will see browser navigation methods.
Create a new test that will get an instance of WebDriver, navigate to a site, and perform some basic actions and verifications.
Let's create a test that calls various navigation methods and checks the behavior of the application in following code example:
@Test
public void testNavigation() {
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
// Get the search textbox
WebElement searchField = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
searchField.clear();
// Enter search keyword and submit
searchField.sendKeys("selenium webdriver");
searchField.submit();
WebElement resultLink = driver.findElement(By.linkText("Selenium WebDriver"));
resultLink.click();
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions
.titleIs("Selenium WebDriver"));
assertEquals("Selenium WebDriver", driver.getTitle());
driver.navigate().back();
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions
.titleIs("selenium webdriver - Google Search"));
assertEquals("selenium webdriver - Google Search", driver.getTitle());
driver.navigate().forward();
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions
.titleIs("Selenium WebDriver"));
assertEquals("Selenium WebDriver", driver.getTitle());
driver.navigate().refresh();
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions
.titleIs("Selenium WebDriver"));
assertEquals("Selenium WebDriver", driver.getTitle());
}