PAGE 6 : BROWSER NAVIGATION COMMANDS IN SELENIUM WEBDRIVER

The navigate interface exposes the ability to move backwards and forwards in the browser’s history.

Following are the Browser Navigation Commands:

1. Navigate To Command
2. Forward Command
3. Back Command
4. Refresh Command

package nc.com;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class NavigationCommands {

       WebDriver driver;

       @Test

       public void navigationCommand() {

              driver = new FirefoxDriver();

              String Url = "http://www.gmail.com";

              driver.get(Url);

/*navigate().forward() : Takes you forward by one page on the

browser’s history.driver.navigate().to(arg0): works same as driver.get();*/

              driver.navigate().forward();

              String Url2 = "http://facebook.com";

              driver.navigate().to(Url2);

// Go back to Home Page

              driver.navigate().back();

// Refresh browser

              driver.navigate().refresh();

// Close browser

              driver.close();

       }

}

Executing tests via TestNG.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<suite name="Navigation Test Suite">

       <test name="navigation Test">

              <classes>

                     <class name="nc.com.NavigationCommands" />

              </classes>

       </test>

</suite>

Output:

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Navigation Test Suite

Total tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Skips: 0

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