How to Verify if Options in Dropdown are Sorted as Expected In Selenium WebDriver – Java | Make Selenium Easy
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:
Select your language below: Select English Hindi Kannada Malaylam Tamil Telgu
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:
Options in dropdown with Default order :[English, Hindi, Kannada, Malaylam, Tamil, Telgu] Sorted List [English, Hindi, Kannada, Malaylam, Tamil, Telgu] List is sorted
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:
Options in dropdown with Default order :[English, Hindi, Kannada, Malaylam, Tamil, Telgu] Sorted List [Telgu, Tamil, Malaylam, Kannada, Hindi, English] List is not sorted.
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My name is Amod Mahajan and I am an IT employee with 4+ years of experience in Software testing and staying in Bengaluru. My area of interest is Automation testing. I started from basics and went throw so many selenium tutorials. Thanks to Mukesh Otwani as his tutorials are easy and cover basics to advance. I have habit of exploring concepts by deep diving. I used to make notes. I thought of sharing my knowledge through posts and now I am here. #KeepLearning #ShareLearning