Learning Selenium Testing Tools - Third Edition

Storing information from the page in the test

Sometimes, there is a need to store elements that are on the page to be used later in a test. It could be that your test needs to pick a date that is on the page and use it later so that you do not need to hardcode values into your test.

Once the element has been stored, you will be able to use it again by requesting it from a JavaScript dictionary that Selenium keeps track of. To use the variable, it will take one of the following two formats: it can look like ${variableName} or storedVars['variableName']. I prefer the storedVars format as it follows the same format as within Selenium internals. To see how this works, let's work through the following example:

1. Open up Selenium IDE and switch off the ...