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Reputation: 523

Asserting that element is not present still test passes if element is present

In Selenium WebDriver+Java+Junit. I have the following method to assert that element is not present.

public boolean AssertDetailNotPresent(){
        if (driver.findElements(linkDetail).size()==0) return true;
        else return false;
    }

I want test to fail if it is present, but it passes(

Can anyone help, why it passes? (element is present).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 419

Answers (1)

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undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193078

With out any visibility to your Usecase it is tough to understand why you are trying to validate a False-Positive scenario. But still to assert that an element as identified by linkDetail is present or not you can use the following code block :

public boolean AssertDetailNotPresent()
{
        if (driver.findElements(linkDetail).size() > 0) 
            return false;
        else 
            return true;
    }

Note : The outcome of this function would depend a lot on the defination of linkDetail. If somehow linkDetail matches any of the nodes you are bound to get the return as false else true will be returned.

Upvotes: 1

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