Robot framework is not able to fetch the locator, i tried copying the xpath ,still i am getting this "unable to find the locator" error

Question

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I am trying to automate an application using Robot framework , selenium in PyCharm tool.

I tried keyword definition to click on the side bar entity called "GCC Intelligence", I am getting below error:

Element with locator '/html/body/div[1]/aside/section/ul/li[3]/a' not found.

Answer 1

Absolute XPath expressions are not reliable. Try to use relative XPaths instead.

Change your XPath expression to:

//a[@href='/gvv-intelligence-platform']

Or this:

//span[text()='GCC Intelligence']

Refer this answer to know more about absolute and relative XPaths

• What is the difference between absolute and relative xpaths? Which is preferred in Selenium automation testing?