I will start by telling you that I am learning html formatting and syntax so you may find that I'm taking the long-way around a problem. I tried creating a basic webpage locally based on your sample and I was not able to create the drop-down for any validation of this proposal.
That being said...
"If I comment out the second line, only clicking on the dropdown to
show the options and make the test show the options it does not show."
Focus on this first. If you can't get the element to show, then you will never be able to click on it.
Based on the described behavior, I think your combo id lookup is perhaps the wrong element in the structure.
By.id("ribbon_nav_dashboard_dropper")
The Junit class below is basically how I would go about testing if I've got the right element for the drop down. Fill in the String arrays in the buildLookups method and the test cases should tell you which of the options you've entered will allow the 'option[2]' to be clicked.
I also took a crack at implementing how the performValidation method would work in this case, but I'd recommend double checking that just to be sure I've understood the problem correctly.
package stackoverflow.proof.selenium;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized.Parameters;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
import com.google.common.base.Function;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
/**
* Parameterized test which can be used to validate lookups for a single well-defined desired interaction in Selenium.
*
*/
@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
public class SeleniumLookupValidationUtil {
/** Test URL where the element should be validated.*/
private static final String TEST_URL = "myURL";
/** Function which converts a String into a {@link By#id(String)} reference.*/
private static final Function<String, By> AS_ID_LOOKUP = new Function<String, By>() {
@Override
public By apply(String arg0) {
System.out.println("Id Lookup: " + arg0);
return By.id(arg0);
}
};
/** Function which converts a String into a {@link By#xpath(String)} reference.*/
private static final Function<String, By> AS_XPATH_LOOKUP = new Function<String, By>() {
@Override
public By apply(String arg0) {
System.out.println("xpath Lookup: " + arg0);
return By.xpath(arg0);
}
};
/** Function which converts a String into a {@link By#cssSelector(String)} reference.*/
private static final Function<String, By> AS_CSS_SELECTOR_LOOKUP = new Function<String, By>() {
@Override
public By apply(String arg0) {
System.out.println("css Lookup: " + arg0);
return By.cssSelector(arg0);
}
};
/** Function which converts a String into a {@link By#className(String)} reference.*/
private static final Function<String, By> AS_CLASS_NAME_LOOKUP = new Function<String, By>() {
@Override
public By apply(String arg0) {
System.out.println("className Lookup: " + arg0);
return By.className(arg0);
}
};
/** Function which converts a String into a {@link By#linkText(String)} reference.*/
private static final Function<String, By> AS_LINK_TEXT_LOOKUP = new Function<String, By>() {
@Override
public By apply(String arg0) {
System.out.println("LinkText Lookup: " + arg0);
return By.linkText(arg0);
}
};
/**
* Creates the data for running the test instance.
* @return Collection of Object arrays. Each array in the collection represents a different test execution.
*/
@Parameters(name="{0}")
public static Collection<Object[]> buildLookups() {
//TODO: Fill in add as many possible lookups for the drop-down element as you can find.
String[] ids = new String[]{"id1", "id2"};
String[] xpaths = new String[]{};
String[] cssSelectors = new String[]{};
String[] classNames = new String[]{"A", "B"};
String[] linkTexts = new String[]{};
//I use the map so I can loop through the dataset later.
Map<Function<String, By>, String[]> associations = Maps.newHashMap();
associations.put(AS_ID_LOOKUP, ids);
associations.put(AS_XPATH_LOOKUP,xpaths);
associations.put(AS_CSS_SELECTOR_LOOKUP, cssSelectors);
associations.put(AS_CLASS_NAME_LOOKUP, classNames);
associations.put(AS_LINK_TEXT_LOOKUP, linkTexts);
List<Object[]> parameters = Lists.newArrayList();
for (Function<String, By> converter: associations.keySet()) {
String[] lookupStrings = associations.get(converter);
for (String lookup : lookupStrings) {
By by = converter.apply(lookup);
parameters.add(new Object[]{by});
}
}
return parameters;
}
/** The By lookup to use for the current test validation.*/
private final By target;
/** WebDriver for testing.*/
private WebDriver driver;
/**
* Test constructor.
* @param lookup By to be used for this validation.
*/
public SeleniumLookupValidationUtil(By lookup) {
this.target = lookup;
}
/**
* Creates the webdriver and establishes our validation state.
*/
@Before
public void initWebDriver() {
driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get(TEST_URL);
//TODO: Any other setup to make the test case valid.
}
/**
* Performs the thing we actually want to know about.
*/
@Test
public void performValidation() {
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(target));
WebElement option2 = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//div[@class='value' and text()='Option 2']")));
option2.click();
}
/**
* Closes all test browser windows and destroys the driver reference.
*/
@After
public void destroyWebDriver() {
for (String window : driver.getWindowHandles()) {
driver.switchTo().window(window);
driver.close();
}
}
}
I use the google.guava api quite a bit, you will need that library to run this code. Here is the maven pom dependency I use for that reference:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
<artifactId>guava</artifactId>
<version>LATEST</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
Best of Luck.
driver.findElement(By.id("ribbon_nav_dashboard_dropper")).click();