Regular Expressions and xpaths

Aim
In this exercise script does a dynamic registration and finally it verifies the dynamically generated email address using Regular Expression. Here is the aim of exercise is actually how can users use Regular expression in verifying the elements on the page.

What you will learn?

• debugging
• xpaths and regular expressions

Pre-requisites:

• Firefox browser with Selenium IDE installed ,use link How to install Selenium IDE?

Key Steps what we are showing into the embedded video file
1. First we open the test scripts (in which regular expression is used) into the Selenium IDE.
2. Script uses verify command using regular expression.
3. Finally script creates an user.
4. Scripts verifies that user has been created using regular expression.


Conclusions

• run the script many times and notice that the email is randomly generated and the verification passes accordingly - see verifyTextPresent in the script

Related Entries

Zip file location: ( download from here)
C:\FoundationSelenium\Ex11\RegularExpressionScript.html.


here is the screen of HTML script:

here is the script in text format:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head profile="http://selenium-ide.openqa.org/profiles/test-case">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link rel="selenium.base" href="http://foundation.time2test.co.uk/" />
<title>RegularExpression</title>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1">
<thead>
<tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="3">RegularExpression</td></tr>
</thead><tbody>
<tr>
 <td>open</td>
 <td>/</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>//ul/li[@id='meta-2']/ul/li[1]/a</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>assertTextPresent</td>
 <td>Username</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>assertTextPresent</td>
 <td>Password</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>//input[@id='user_login']</td>
 <td>admin</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>//input[@id='user_pass']</td>
 <td>time4test</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>id=wp-submit</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>waitForElementPresent</td>
 <td>//div[@id='user_info']/p/a[2]</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>link=Posts</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>waitForElementPresent</td>
 <td>//div[@id='wpbody-content']/div[3]/h2</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>link=Add New</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=title</td>
 <td>javascript{&quot;Post&quot; + new Date().getMilliseconds();}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>id=publish</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>css=a.wp-first-item.current</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>verifyTextPresent</td>
 <td>regexpi: Post[0-9]{2,3}</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>link=Users</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>assertTextPresent</td>
 <td>Users</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>//li[@id='menu-users']/div[3]/ul/li[2]/a</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=user_login</td>
 <td>javascript{&quot;Test&quot; + new Date().getMilliseconds();}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=email</td>
 <td>javascript{&quot;Test&quot; + new Date().getMilliseconds()+&quot;@gmail.com&quot;;}</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=first_name</td>
 <td>TestFirst</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=last_name</td>
 <td>TestLast</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=url</td>
 <td>http://www.google.com/</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=pass1</td>
 <td>time2test</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=pass2</td>
 <td>time2test</td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>id=addusersub</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>css=a.wp-first-item.current</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>waitForElementPresent</td>
 <td>//tr[@id='user-1']/td[1]/strong/a</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>verifyTextPresent</td>
 <td>regexpi: Test[0-9]{2,3}</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
 <td>clickAndWait</td>
 <td>link=Log Out</td>
 <td></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

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here is the embedded video file: