04. Selenium | Browser navigation

01. Intro

The Selenium WebDriver API provides to access the web pages from the browser history or by refreshing the current page and so on with the back, forward, refresh/reload method.

 

02. Method

Method	Description	Example
back()	This goes one step backward in the browser history of the current session	driver.back()
forward()	This goes one step forward in the browser history of the current session	driver.forward()
refresh()	This refreshes the current page displayed in the browser	driver.refresh()

 

03. TestCase

 

04. Code

def test_browser_navigation(self):
    driver = self.driver

    # TC1. get the search field
    search_field = self.driver.find_element(By.NAME, 'q')
    search_field.send_keys("selenium webdriver")
    search_field.submit()
    searched_link_text = self.driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '//*[@id="rso"]/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/ul/li[3]/div/div/div/div[1]/div/a/h3')
    searched_link_text.click()
    self.assertEqual("Index", driver.title)

    # TC2. driver back
    driver.back()
    self.assertTrue(WebDriverWait(self.driver, 10).until(expected_conditions.title_is('selenium webdriver - Google 검색')))

    # TC3. driver forward
    driver.forward()
    self.assertTrue(WebDriverWait(self.driver, 10).until(expected_conditions.title_is('Index')))

    # TC4. driver refresh
    driver.refresh()
    self.assertTrue(WebDriverWait(self.driver, 10).until(expected_conditions.title_is('Index')))

 

05. Result