Automation Testing Selenium WebDriver

Question 1

Which Selenium WebDriver method is used to navigate to a URL?

Accepted Answer

driver.get(url)

Answer

driver.get(url) loads a new web page in the current browser window in Selenium WebDriver.

Question 2

What is the purpose of WebDriverWait in Selenium?

Accepted Answer

To pause execution until an expected condition is met

Answer

WebDriverWait implements explicit waits, polling until a specified condition (like element visibility) is true before a timeout.

Question 3

Which locator strategy is generally considered most reliable in Selenium for uniquely identifying elements?

Accepted Answer

ID

Answer

ID locators are fastest and most reliable because IDs should be unique within a page per HTML specification.

Question 4

What does driver.findElements() return when no matching elements are found?

Accepted Answer

An empty list

Answer

findElements() returns an empty list when no matching elements exist, unlike findElement() which throws NoSuchElementException.

Question 5

Which Selenium method is used to switch to an iframe?

Accepted Answer

driver.switchTo().frame()

Answer

driver.switchTo().frame() switches the WebDriver context into an iframe so its elements can be interacted with.

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