Html Elements framework

This framework is designed to provide an easy-to-use way of interacting with web-page elements in your tests. It can be considered to be an extension of WebDriver Page Object.
With the help of the Html Elements framework you can group web-page elements into blocks, encapsulate logic of interaction within them and then easily use created blocks in page objects. It also provides a set of helpful matchers to use with web-page elements and blocks. See JavaDocs and Samples for more details.

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Other Languages

In case you are non-java guy, don't panic, there are still few options:

• Html Elements .NET implementation - .NET port made by Vadzim Hushchanskou
• Html Elements PHP implementation - PHP port made by Alexander Obuhovich
• bumblebee framework (C#) - same idea, nice implementation

Release Notes

• Version 1.13 Release Notes
• Version 1.12 Release Notes
• Version 1.11 Release Notes
• Version 1.10 Release Notes
• Version 1.9 Release Notes

Include Html Elements in your project

Maven dependencies for Html Elements core:

<dependency>
    <groupId>ru.yandex.qatools.htmlelements</groupId>
    <artifactId>htmlelements-java</artifactId>
    <version>1.13</version>
</dependency>

And for Thucydides integration:

<dependency>
    <groupId>ru.yandex.qatools.htmlelements</groupId>
    <artifactId>htmlelements-thucydides</artifactId>
    <version>1.13</version>
</dependency>

Or you can include all modules at once if needed:

<dependency>
    <groupId>ru.yandex.qatools.htmlelements</groupId>
    <artifactId>htmlelements-all</artifactId>
    <version>1.13</version>
</dependency>

Create blocks of elements

For example, let's create a block for the search form on the page http://www.yandex.com:

@Name("Search form")
@FindBy(xpath = "//form")
public class SearchArrow extends HtmlElement {
    @Name("Search request input")
    @FindBy(id = "searchInput")
    private TextInput requestInput;

    @Name("Search button")
    @FindBy(className = "b-form-button__input")
    private Button searchButton;

    public void search(String request) {
        requestInput.sendKeys(request);
        searchButton.click();
    }
}

Construct page object using created blocks

You can easily use created blocks in page objects:

public class SearchPage {
    private SearchArrow searchArrow;
    // Other blocks and elements here

    public SearchPage(WebDriver driver) {
        PageFactory.initElements(new HtmlElementDecorator(driver), this);
    }

    public void search(String request) {
        searchArrow.search(request);
    }

    // Other methods here
}

Use page objects in your tests

Created page objects can be used in your tests. This makes tests more concise and easy to write.

public class SampleTest {
    private WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
    private SearchPage searchPage = new SearchPage(driver);

    @Before
    public void loadPage() {
        driver.get("http://www.yandex.com");
    }

    @Test
    public void sampleTest() {
        searchPage.search("yandex");
        // Some assertion here
    }

    @After
    public void closeDriver() {
        driver.quit();
    }
}

Questions?

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