Selenium Testing Framework Selenium Locators & Element Identification

Question 1

Which locator strategy is generally considered the most reliable and fastest for finding elements in Selenium WebDriver?

Accepted Answer

ID

Answer

XPath

Answer

CSS Selector

Answer

Class Name

Question 2

Which XPath expression correctly selects all input elements with a type attribute equal to 'text'?

Accepted Answer

//input[@type='text']

Answer

//input[type='text']

Answer

input[@type='text']

Answer

/input[@type='text']

Question 3

What is the key behavioral difference between findElement() and findElements() in Selenium WebDriver?

Accepted Answer

findElement() throws NoSuchElementException if not found; findElements() returns an empty list

Answer

findElement() returns a list; findElements() returns a single element

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findElement() is always faster than findElements()

Answer

findElements() only works with XPath locators

Question 4

Which CSS selector correctly targets an element with the ID 'login-btn'?

Accepted Answer

#login-btn

Answer

.login-btn

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*login-btn

Answer

@login-btn

Question 5

What does the '//' at the beginning of an XPath expression signify?

Accepted Answer

Select elements anywhere in the document

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Select only the root element

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Select only direct children of the root

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Select elements that have no children

Question 6

Which type of XPath is considered LEAST reliable for test automation due to fragility?

Accepted Answer

Absolute XPath from the root

Answer

XPath using ID attribute

Answer

XPath using name attribute

Answer

XPath using contains()

Question 7

Which Selenium method is used to locate an anchor element by a portion of its visible link text?

Accepted Answer

By.partialLinkText()

Answer

By.linkText()

Answer

By.text()

Answer

By.link()