Refer the article New Selenium IDE – Commands (Selenese), for the complete list of Selenium IDE commands and their practical demonstrations.
assert not text is one of the commands in Selenium IDE and is the opposite of assert text command.
The purpose of assert not text command in Selenium IDE, is to check that the given text is not available on the UI element. (i.e. The text between the HTML tags of the located UI element)
In this article, I am going to practically demonstrate assert not text command in Selenium IDE for checking the text is not available on the UI element as shown below:
Let’s get started.
New Selenium IDE – Using ‘assert not text’ command
Follow the below steps for practicing assert not text command in Selenium IDE along with me:
1) Execute the open command in Selenium IDE as explained in the previous article: Selenium IDE – open command
2) Now click on the second row in the Selenium IDE’s Test Script Editor Box as shown below:
3) While the second row is selected in step 2, enter the Selenium IDE command ‘assert not text’ to the Command box field, enter the id locating strategy id=but2 into the Target box field and enter the text ‘ButtonXYZ’ which is not expected to be in between the HTML tags of the located UI element as shown below:
Note: The locating strategy id=but2 is for locating the Button2 button on the http://omayo.blogspot.com/ URL page (Shown at the beginning of the article).
4) Click on ‘Run current test’ option as shown below:
5) Observe that the assert not text command in the Selenium IDE will be executed, and the result will be passed as shown below:
Here concludes the practical demonstration of assert not text command in Selenium IDE.
In the next article, I will practically demonstrate another Selenium IDE command.
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Refer the article New Selenium IDE – Commands (Selenese), for the complete list of Selenium IDE commands and their practical demonstrations.