13 Sony Playstation Login Test

Using text() in Xpath expression

Learning Objectives

• Review

  • New Test Project

  • AJAX testing

• Using `text()` in XPath

• Using the parent node in Xpath to be more specific

Test Case 13

Please note this is a public site (which I don’t have control of, different from Agile Travel), so the site may change.

Tasks

Task 1. Click the “Sign In”

Right-click the “Sign In” and inspect.

This is not a hyperlink (`<a href`), we cannot use the LINK_TEXT locator. Within the identified `SPAN` tag, there are no easy identifiers such as ID, NAME, or even a good attribute for identification.

<button data-qa="web-toolbar#signin-button"> 
  <span class="psw-fill-x psw-t-truncate-1 psw-l-space-x-2 ">Sign In</span>
</button>

The element’s classes `psw-fill-x` are all quite generic, i.e., which are used by many other elements, so we can’t use them.

Therefore, this leads to the natural thought to use the text `Sign In`. We can use it in XPath as below.