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helpoworld
helpoworld

Reputation: 3

Testing with Selenium in C# - Website which I need to test changes XPath

I need to create a testing automation tool in selenium with c# to test the website of my company. Everything works fine, except one thing: everytime when I reload a task on the website (like "create new user"), the XPath of some fields change. The first name field is as example not "//*[@id=\"0FirstName\"]" anymore, the new xpath would be "//*[@id=\"2FirstName\"]" and selenium does not recognize that field anymore like before -> program stops working

Is there a way to make a dynamic function to ignore the number before the email?

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[@id=\"0FirstName\"]")).SendKeys("Selenium");

Upvotes: 0

Views: 61

Answers (3)

Dmitri T
Dmitri T

Reputation: 168072

  1. You can use XPath contains() function like:

    //*[contains(@id,'FirstName')]

  2. If for some reason it doesn't work, i.e. returns multiple matches you can also implement some form of ends-with() function by using combination of substring() and string-length() functions like:

    //*[substring(@id, string-length(@id) - string-length('FirstName')+ 1, string-length(@id))= 'FirstName']

More information: XPath Operators & Functions

Upvotes: 1

Ed Bangga
Ed Bangga

Reputation: 13006

you can use contains()

driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//*[contains(@id,'FirstName')]")).SendKeys("Selenium");

Upvotes: 0

dafie
dafie

Reputation: 1169

You can change your xpath as following:

driver.FindElement(By.Xpath("//*[contains(@id,'FirstName')]"));

Upvotes: 0

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