In my current project, I am using C# and Selenium with the page object model approach to automate testing on a website.
I have implemented a page object that includes a list of IWebElement properties representing various buttons and links on the website that need to be interacted with.
This is what the page object looks like :
using System;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
namespace UITesting
{
class PlansPage
{
private IWebDriver _driver;
public PlansPage(IWebDriver driver)
{
_driver = driver;
}
// Buttons & Links
public IWebElement homeButton => _driver.FindElement(By.ClassName("navbar-brand"));
public IWebElement licenseLink => _driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[@href='/#/account'][@class='ng-binding']"));
public IWebElement plansLink => _driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//a[@href='#/plans']"));
}
}
While I am able to access each IWebElement directly during testing :
using System;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
namespace UITesting
{
class PlansTest
{
// Setting up driver & plans page
IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
PlansPage plansPage = new PlansPage(driver);
// Clicking on individual elements
plansPage.homeButton.Click();
plansPage.licenseLink.Click();
plansPage.plansLink.Click();
}
}
My goal now is to programmatically click on every button present on the page. To achieve this, I want to iterate through the IWebElements in plansTest and call the Click() method on each element as shown below :
foreach (IWebElement element in plansPage)
{
element.Click();
}
To view these elements as properties and print out their names, I can do so by iterating through them like this:
foreach (var property in plansPage.GetType().GetProperties())
{
Console.WriteLine(property.Name);
}
However, attempting to execute property.Click() results in an error message indicating that PropertyInfo does not contain a definition for `Click`.
Upon further investigation, I attempted to retrieve the value of the property and then assign it to an IWebElement, but encountered a conversion error :
Cannot implicitly convert type 'object' to 'OpenQA.Selenium.IWebElement'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)
My aim is to find a way to iterate through the properties of an object in order to obtain an IWebElement object. How can I achieve this?