How to Verify if Options in Dropdown are Sorted as Expected In Selenium WebDriver – Java

Hello Guys,

As I say always, your automation script is ineffective if you do not include logic to validate to make sure the desired action has been performed by Selenium script. For Example – You have a dropdown in your application. Manually you verify if dropdown contains desired options or it s sorted. Generally while automating same feature, we just select a value in dropdown and leave validating options in dropdown or if it is sorted. We will learn how can we achieve in Selenium-Java.

Infact, verifying dropdown contains sorted element require java code. Selenium can give only options in dropdown. What you need to validate on extracted options requires Java knowledge. As I say always, you can write better script if you are good in Java.

HTML for dropdown:

[html]

<strong>Select your language below:</strong>

<select id="SingleDD">
<option value="Choose">Select</option>
<option value="English">English</option>
<option value="Hindi">Hindi</option>
<option value="Kannada">Kannada</option>
<option value="Malaylam">Malaylam</option>
<option value="Tamil">Tamil</option>
<option value="Telgu">Telgu</option>
</select>
[/html]

Java code to verify if options are sorted in ascending order:

package HandlingDropdown;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;


public class ValidationOfSortedDropdownAscending {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
		
		// Launching browser
		System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","./exefiles/chromedriver.exe");
		WebDriver driver= new ChromeDriver();
		
		// Launching URL
		driver.get("file:///C:/Users/amodm/Desktop/SortedDropdown.html");
		
		// Locating select tag web element
		WebElement singleSelectTagDropdownWebElement= driver.findElement(By.id("SingleDD"));
		Select dropdown = new Select(singleSelectTagDropdownWebElement);
		
		// Get all options
		List allOptionsElement = dropdown.getOptions();
		
		// Creating a list to store drop down options
		List options = new ArrayList();
		
		// Storing options in list
		for(WebElement optionElement : allOptionsElement)
		{
			options.add(optionElement.getText());
		}
		
		// Removing "Select" option as it is not actual option
		options.remove("Select");
		
		// Default order of option in drop down
		System.out.println("Options in dropdown with Default order :"+options);
		
		// Creating a temp list to sort
		List tempList = new ArrayList<>(options);
		
		
		// Sort list ascending
		Collections.sort(tempList);
		
		
		System.out.println("Sorted List "+ tempList);
		
		
		// equals() method checks for two lists if they contain the same elements in the same order.
		boolean ifSortedAscending = options.equals(tempList);
		
		if(ifSortedAscending)
		{
			System.out.println("List is sorted");
		}
		else
			System.out.println("List is not sorted.");
		
		
		driver.quit();
		
	}
}

Output:

[java]
Options in dropdown with Default order :[English, Hindi, Kannada, Malaylam, Tamil, Telgu]
Sorted List [English, Hindi, Kannada, Malaylam, Tamil, Telgu]
List is sorted
[/java]

 

Java code to verify if options are sorted in descending order:

package HandlingDropdown;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;


public class ValidationOfSortedDropdownDescending  {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
		
		// Launching browser
		System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","./exefiles/chromedriver.exe");
		WebDriver driver= new ChromeDriver();
		
		// Launching URL
		driver.get("file:///C:/Users/amodm/Desktop/SortedDropdown.html");
		
		// Locating select tag web element
		WebElement singleSelectTagDropdownWebElement= driver.findElement(By.id("SingleDD"));
		Select dropdown = new Select(singleSelectTagDropdownWebElement);
		
		// Get all options
		List allOptionsElement = dropdown.getOptions();
		
		// Creating a list to store drop down options
		List options = new ArrayList();
		
		// Storing options in list
		for(WebElement optionElement : allOptionsElement)
		{
			options.add(optionElement.getText());
		}
		
		// Removing "Select" option as it is not actual option
		options.remove("Select");
		
		// Default order of option in drop down
		System.out.println("Options in dropdown with Default order :"+options);
		
		// Creating a temp list to sort
		List tempList = new ArrayList<>(options);
		
		
		// Sort list descending 
		Collections.sort(tempList, Collections.reverseOrder());
		
		
		System.out.println("Sorted List "+ tempList);
		
		
		// equals() method checks for two lists if they contain the same elements in the same order.
		boolean ifSortedAscending = options.equals(tempList);
		
		if(ifSortedAscending)
		{
			System.out.println("List is sorted");
		}
		else
			System.out.println("List is not sorted.");
		
		
		driver.quit();
		
	}
}

Output:

[java]
Options in dropdown with Default order :[English, Hindi, Kannada, Malaylam, Tamil, Telgu]
Sorted List [Telgu, Tamil, Malaylam, Kannada, Hindi, English]
List is not sorted.
[/java]

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