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Whilst doing some maintenance on some Selenium test cases I found some erroneous checks being made to ascertain the value of a drop-down control.

Where your control is something like this, where the two values are Boom and Kazaam, with Kazaam being the second value, and currently selected:

<select id="my_select_control">
<option>Boom</option>
<option selected="selected">Kazaam</option>
</select>

The solution is as easy as:

<tr>
<td>verifySelectedValue</td>
<td>my_select_control</td>
<td>Kazaam</td>
</tr>

I was recording a Selenium test case where I needed to record a click on a specific button on a page which had multiple buttons almost identical in code: normally this could be done quite easily through the use of the ID of the element — unfortunately our programmers had not been that kind! The only actual difference between the buttons was in the Javascript onclick event attached to the button.

The solution is quite simple:

<tr>
    <td>clickAndWait</td>
    <td>//input[contains(@onclick,'part_of')]</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>