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Selenium Interview Question – What is the difference between List and Set ?

Selenium Interview Question – What is the difference between List and Set ?

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Question: What is the difference between List and Set?


Answer:  The following are the differences between List and Set:

List:

  • Stores the collection of elements in a sequential order and the stored elements from List can be accessed using their index (i.e. First element will have 0 as index, Second element will have index 1 and so on)
  • We can store duplicate values in the same List collection as elements

Example program for a List collection:

List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>();

list.add(9);

list.add(6);

list.add(6);

//Here index 0 is passed to the get() method to print the first element value 9

System.out.println(list.get(0));

//Here index 1 is passed to the get() method to print the second element value 6

System.out.println(list.get(1));

//Here index 2 is passed to the get() method to print the third element value 6

System.out.println(list.get(2));

Set:

  • Stores the collection of elements in a random order and the stored elements from the List cannot be accessed using index (i.e. Index cannot be used for retrieving the values from the Set collection)
  • Duplicate values cannot be stored in as Set collection.

Example program for a Set collection:

Set<Integer> set = new HashSet<Integer>();

set.add(9);

set.add(6);

set.add(3);

//Using for-each loop to retrieve the elements as the Set don’t have index

for(Integer temp: set){

                System.out.println(temp);

}

Output: The elements will be stored in a random order as shown below. Hence when printed, they will be printed in the same random order in which they got stored in the Set internally.

6

3

9


If you are interested in finding out our complete list of Selenium Interview questions, you can refer to http://www.qafox.com/selenium-interview-questions/


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Happy Learning ?

Naveen Repala (www.QAFox.com)

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