Get webelement text in QAF

Question

I would like to get the text of a particular webelement in a web page in QAF. With selenium we use

element(by.id('id')).getAttribute('value');

How do I write the above code in QAF ?

Answer 1

You can use the same way as you are using in normal selenium for example:

driver.findElement(By.id("id")).getAttribute('value');

In addition to that, with qaf there are multiple ways to achieve it. Let say your locator is id=id, To create element object you can use one of the following way:

new QAFExtendedWebElement(loc)
//or
driver.findElement(loc)

short hand:

import static com.qmetry.qaf.automation.ui.webdriver.ElementFactory.$;


$(loc)

To get value in code

   String val = $(loc).getAttribute("value");

To assert/verify/wait value in code

    $(loc).verifyValue(expectedValue);
    $(loc).assertValue(expectedValue);
    $(loc).waitForValue(expectedValue);

Using inbuilt steps from qaf-support:

    import static com.qmetry.qaf.automation.step.CommonStep.*;

    verifyValue(loc, value);
    assertValue(loc, value);
    waitForValue(loc, value);

Steps to assert/verify/wait value in BDD

    verify 'loc' value is 'expectedValue'
    assert 'loc' value is 'expectedValue'
    wait until 'loc' value is 'expectedValue'