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Quality Assurance Intermediate Selenium WebDriver Input Actions Locating Elements Using JavaScript

Jamilya Masylbekova
Jamilya Masylbekova
3,969 Points
Posted by Jamilya Masylbekova
Jamilya Masylbekova
3,969 Points

Overcomplicated element location using loop.

What's the benefit of locating button using loop? If you could just used css nth-of-type?

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

While it is indeed overkill for the page used in this demonstration, it is in general far more reliable than using than using nth-of-type would be. When writing automation code you should always try to make the code flexible enough that even if the page is rearranged or modified a bit the code should still work.

If you used nth-of-type then you are relying on the save button always being the second button on the page, if that ever changed (which is not that unlikely on a real web page) then the code would break.