Cycles in Selenium test cases - java

Question

Example, there is a web page in which there is an ability to move to another page with button - "Next Page". Does selenium provide an ability to cycle through this pages, I have one page with 100 "Next Page" butttons, and second with 200 "Next Page". Can i make something like

do { 
selenium.click("next page");
}while (next_page exists); 

This an example, but I hope you understood the idea.

Answer 1

Of course. Selenium can automate pagination.

Let the id's of the page nums be pageX - X being the page number.

in Java (pseudo) -

public void nextPage() {
  if (selenium.isElementPresent("css=a#page" + (i+1)))
    selenium.click("css=a#page" + (i+1));
}

Just wrap that in a loop, like you did up there.

EDIT : I noticed in the comments you want it in a do{}while()

public boolean hasNextPage() {
  return selenium.isElementPresent("css=a#page" + (i+1));
}

So your loop would be -

do {
  nextPage();
} while (hasNextPage())

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