Commonly Used Selenium Commands

To conclude our introduction of Selenium, we'll show you a few typical Selenium commands. These are probably the most commonly used commands for building tests.

open

• opens a page using a URL.

click

• performs a click operation, and optionally waits for a new page to load.

verifyTitle/assertTitle

• verifies an expected page title.

verifyTextPresent

• verifies expected text is somewhere on the page.

verifyElementPresent

• verifies an expected UI element, as defined by its HTML tag, is present on the page.

verifyText

• verifies expected text and its corresponding HTML tag are present on the page.

verifyTable

• verifies a table’s expected contents.