Posting Status in Facebook using Selenium and Java

Question

How to Post Status in Facebook using Selenium and Java?I have tried below code which doesn't work.Able to login but getting error no such element while posting status.After login i am getting notification popup allow or block,how to handle this popup also? Below the code i am using for testing this.

public class NewTest {
private WebDriver driver;

 @Test
public void testEasy() throws InterruptedException {

driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/");
Thread.sleep(5000);
driver.findElement(By.id("email")).sendKeys("email");
driver.findElement(By.id("pass")).sendKeys("password" + Keys.ENTER);

Thread.sleep(5000);

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//textarea[@title=\"What's on your mind?\"]")).click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//textarea[@title=\"What's on your mind?\"]")).sendKeys("Hello World");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//textarea[@title=\"What's on your mind?\"]")).sendKeys(Keys.ENTER);

}

@BeforeTest
public void beforeTest() {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
    "C:\\Users\\admin\\Desktop\\Test\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
}

@AfterTest
public void afterTest() {
driver.quit();
}

}

Answer 1

1. Your XPath expression is not very correct, as far as I can see thte title of the relevant textarea looks like:

   What's on your mind, user1984
   

   so you need to amend your locator to use XPath contains() function like:

   By.xpath("//textarea[contains(@title,\"What's on your mind\")]")
   

2. Using Thread.sleep is a performance anti-pattern, you should be using WebDriverWait instead. Example refactored code:

   driver.get("https://www.facebook.com/");
   WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 5);
   wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("email"))).sendKeys("email");
   wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("pass"))).sendKeys("password" + Keys.ENTER);
   
   
   wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//textarea[contains(@title,\"What's on your mind\")]"))).click();
   wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//textarea[contains(@title,\"What's on your mind\")]"))).sendKeys("Hello World");