I have three buttons which have the text 'select'.
Can I write the code to interact with these select buttons? They don't have any ids or name.
I am placing two of my buttons here:
<button class="btn btn-default ng-scope" type="button" data-ng-click="onBtnSelectClicked(coverage)" translate="l_choose">Select</button>
<button class="btn btn-default ng-scope" type="button" data-ng-click="onBtnSelectClicked(coverage)" translate="l_choose">Select</button>
If you tell me some other way to interact this button that's fine too.
EDIT
I have found an answer to this question, here is the answer
b.buttons(:text,'Select')[1].click
I beg to differ from above Comments. When in UI testing we Very routinely come upon such scnearios for rich applications. [Angular/Dojo etc]
It is also possible they put intentionally vague properties so that the user can dynamically re arrange and or increase decrease frames/panels as he needs. I've had huge arguements with dev guys on this part - evn now it does not make much sense to me how much ever they explain.
Consider this - you may want to open up some kind of doc and compare side by side and you have same elements in two frames - so lets say opnen a frame and split it into two and say compare / find / select etc etc may be some of the common objects that someone can design.
So I am guessing - if in any case the dev has intentionally decided to go with same properties - the parent or any ancestor should DEFINITIVELY differ. So you need to narrow that down and go for it. This IS the right approach since your tests wont break unless intent/functionality is updated specifically.
if not then this is a poor application design, you may possibly let dev know for some text differentiation.