Selenium: How to use different locators for an element using POM/PageFactory

Question

Consider the locator for an Element changes for different versions of the product. And we need to test both the versions of the product.

In this case I would like to use -

Multiple locators to locate this single element. (like two different xpaths OR one xpath & one id)
Use locator1 for version 1 and locator2 for version 2.

Can you suggest what would be good design to implement this? Is this possible to implement along with PageFactory?

I am looking for where I can provide two different types of locators. e.g. xpath and id. Also should I think of using object repository along with POM to run the test with two different product versions?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 22 '19 at 07:24

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Yes it is possible to implement PageFactory for different versions.

We usually have a build tag in the class like build_tag = "ver1" or "ver2", you can put your different locators under different UI Map and call according to the version tag.

answered Oct 22 '19 at 07:24

john

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it would be helpful if you can provide or point out to some examples. – pavan kumar Oct 22 '19 at 11:31

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '19 at 08:31

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There is also an option to add multiple conditions on the same locator using OR AND conditions in XPATH.

More detailed at W3 and example

answered Oct 22 '19 at 08:31

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Selenium: How to use different locators for an element using POM/PageFactory

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