Selenium using conditional statements

Question

I just started looking into selenium for automated testing for the past few days and am getting pretty stuck. I've been looking for documentation on this but haven't found anything very helpful but maybe one of you have found something interesting, if so I'd love to read it.

Anyway, here's the problem: I need to open up a website. This website takes in some parameters which takes the browser to another site, however if the parameters are invalid then the next site will display a message saying "An error has occurred".

If the second site doesn't error out like this we want to store a few arbitrary values and echo them later. If the site does error out we want to mark the error and move on. Right now, if the second site is invalid selenium stops running.

The only way it seems to do this is to have an if-else statement though I haven't found any mention of one in selenium. I have read somewhere that you can create some javascript on your own and then input that into selenium. The problem there is that I don't know how to actually input the javascript into selenium.

I hope that wasn't too confusing.

Thank you,

Jesse Smothermon

Answer 1

My coworker found it. code below:

<tr>
<td>storeEval</td>
<td>(selenium.isElementPresent("variable_looked_at")?selenium.getText("variable_looked_at"):"N/A")</td>
<td>Address</td>
</tr>

Thanks,

Jesse Smothermon