Select Date Using Selenium Webdriver

How To Select Date From DatePicker Using Selenium WebDriver.......

A lot of application has datepicker which shows calenders upon clicking on it. The reason is to test, Does it shows calender after clicking on it and get the user selected date. So here currently working on Selenium WebDriver. I want to select values in date range from the drop down.. I want to know how can i select the values as Date, Month and year in the date picker drop down.

Following code will open the url in firefox once it come up, click on text box which shows calender and then naviage to February and select the defined date in the code below. It will show name of month in console window.  

Here we go.........

import org.junit.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

 

public class demoDatePicker {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

               WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        driver.get("http://jqueryui.com/datepicker/");
        driver.manage().window().maximize();

        WebElement ele = driver.findElement(By.className("demo-frame"));
        driver.switchTo().frame(ele);

        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        // Click on text box so that date picked will come
        driver.findElement(By.id("datepicker")).click();
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++) {
            // Get month string
            String month = driver.findElement(By.className("ui-datepicker-month")).getText();
            if(month.equalsIgnoreCase("February"))
                break;
            driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div/div/a[2]/span")).click();
            System.out.println(month);
        }

        // Date picker is a table so that navigate to each cell, If particular
        // cell matches value 20 then select it
        WebElement dateWidget = driver.findElement(By.className("ui-datepicker-calendar"));

        List<WebElement> rows = dateWidget.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));
        List<WebElement> columns = dateWidget.findElements(By.tagName("td"));

        // select 20th date
        for (WebElement row : rows) {
            for (WebElement col : columns) {
                if (col.getText().equals("20")) {
                    col.click();
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

How to write data to Excel Sheet in Selenium WebDriver

Before start writting data to excel sheet make sure Apache POI library is downloaded and add into your IDE you are going to use. The same library is being used for reading data from excel file. So this is Microsoft API which used for reading and writting data from/to Microsoft stuff.

Below code is performed using TestNg. Now writting data to excel sheet in a sequential order or maintain insertion order of keys, Order in which keys are inserted in to LinkedHashMap.

Following is the code to write to excel workbook:

import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFCell;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFRow;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFSheet;
import org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook;
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Created by Gaurav on 5/26/2014.
 */
public class demoWriteToExcel {

    LinkedHashMap<String,Object[]> table;
    HSSFWorkbook hssfWorkbook;
    HSSFSheet hssfSheet;
    FirefoxDriver firefoxDriver;

    @BeforeClass
    public void setUp(){

        hssfWorkbook = new HSSFWorkbook();
        hssfSheet = hssfWorkbook.createSheet("TestData");
        

        //Used linkedHashMap to maintain insertion order of keys

        table = new LinkedHashMap<String, Object[]>();
        table.put("1",new Object[]{"SrNo", "TestCase", "Result"});

        firefoxDriver = new FirefoxDriver();
        firefoxDriver.get("http://newtours.demoaut.com/");

    }

    @Test
    public void login() {

       // It will insert data into table when it can reach to the login page.

        Assert.assertEquals(firefoxDriver.getTitle(), "Welcome: Mercury Tours");
        table.put("2", new Object[]{"1", "I can reach login page", "Pass"});

    }

    // Initialization of rows and cells to get data into the excel sheet.

    @AfterClass
    public void filldata(){

        Set<String> strings = table.keySet();

        //rows loop

        int rowCount = 0;
        for(String key: strings){

            HSSFRow row = hssfSheet.createRow(rowCount);
            Object[] objects = table.get(key);

            //columns loop

            int cellcount =0;
            for(Object obj: objects) {

                HSSFCell cell = row.createCell(cellcount);
                cell.setCellValue(obj.toString());
                cellcount++;
            }
            rowCount++;
            }

        try {

           // Following path is given where the workbook will get created

            FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(new File("C:\\Users\\Gaurav\\Desktop\\Selenium_TC\\Selenium_practicals\\gaurav.xls"));
            hssfWorkbook.write(fileOutputStream);
            fileOutputStream.close();
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

}

Actions In Selenium using Selenium WebDriver

 

There are different kind of actions can be perform in selenium webdriver. So every action needs to build and then it will be ready to perform. The actions will be responsible for every action performed in browser. In most of the cases we will use .Build() and .perform() after initialization of every new action.

So following are the actions that can be perform:

1. To build multiple actions in a order and then return the result of that particular action:

new Actions(driver).Build();

2. To execute currently built action and no return:

new Actions(driver).Perform();

3. To perform particular action on the browser to be perform:

new Actions(driver).Build().Perform(); 

It is better to specify by locator using findelement.

4. To click the mouse on last know mouse co-ordinates and return the actions:

new Actions(driver).Click();

5. To click the mouse on specified element and return the actions:

new Actions(driver).Click(draggable);

6. To click and hold the mouse button on last known mouse co-ordinates and return the actions:

new Actions(driver).ClickAndHold();

7. To drag-and -drop from one element to another and that return the actions:

new Actions().DragAndDrop(draggable, droppable);

8. To drag-and-drop to specified offset on one element and that returns the actions:

new Actions(driver).DragAndDropToOffset(draggable, 25, 35);

9. To move the mouse over specified element and that return the actions:

new Actions(driver).MoveToElement(draggable);

10. To move the mouse to the specified offset of the top left corner of the specified element and that returns the actions:

new Actions(driver).MovetoElement(draggable, 25, 35);

11. To release the mouse button at the last known mouse co-oridinates and that return the actions:

new Actions(driver).Release();

12 To release the mouse button on specified element and that returns the actions:

new Actions(driver).Release(draggable);

13. To send the multiple keystrokes in specific order to the browser and that return the actions:

new Actions(driver). SendKeys(Keys.Alt) 

In this above syntax key parameter is string.

14. To send sequence of key strokes to the specified element in the browser and that return the actions:

new Actions(driver) .SendKeys(draggable, Keys.Alt);

In this above syntax key parameter as string.

15. To send a modifier key down message to the browser and that return the actions:

new Actions(driver).KeyDown(Keys.Alt)

16. To send a modifier key down message to the specified element in the browser and that return the actions:

 new Actions(driver).KeyDown(draggable, Key.Alt);

17. To send a modifier key up message to the browser and that return the actions:

new Actions(driver).KeyUp(Keys.Alt)

18. To send a modifier key up message to the specified element in the browser and that return the actions:

 new Actions(driver).KeyUp(draggable, Key.Alt);  

 

Now we will see how different actions we can use in selenium.

 

public class demoActions {

        WebDriver driver;

        @Before

        public void setup() {

            driver = new FirefoxDriver();

            driver.get("http://newtours.demoaut.com/");

            driver.manage().window().maximize();

        }

   /* @After

    public void tearDown(){

        wd.quit();

    }*/

        @Test

        public void shouldDoUnitTesting() {

            WebElement uName = driver.findElement(By.name("userName"));

            WebElement pwd = driver.findElement(By.name("password"));

            WebElement login = driver.findElement(By.name("login"));

            Actions actions = new Actions(driver);

            Action build = actions.moveToElement(uName)

                    .click(uName)

                    .keyDown(Keys.SHIFT)

                    .sendKeys("s")

                    .keyUp(Keys.SHIFT)

                    .sendKeys("oftedge100")

                    .keyDown(Keys.CONTROL)

                    .sendKeys("a" +"c")

                    .keyUp(Keys.CONTROL)

                    .click(pwd)

                    .keyDown(Keys.CONTROL)

                    .sendKeys("v")

                    .keyUp(Keys.CONTROL)

                    .click(login)

                    .build();

                    build.perform();

        }

    }

Thanks to Savita Shinde....