Selenium : Ways to Identify objects

The Following Example use Parent and Child object concept to capture a particular object.Though the objective can be realised much simpler i have followed this method for the understanding of the concept .

//Example of Google homepage

/*Class to detect Google Search button ,using ParentObject ,

* findElement and findElements concepts

*/

import

java.util.List;

import

javax.swing.JOptionPane;

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.events.EventFiringWebDriver;

public

class Test

{

public

static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException

{

WebDriver driver= new

FirefoxDriver();

EventFiringWebDriver d=new

EventFiringWebDriver(driver);

d.get("http://www.google.co.in/");

//WebElement box = d.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='als']"));

WebElement box = d.findElement(By.id("mngb"));

//List names =box.findElements(By.id("gbqfba"));

WebElement names =box.findElement(By.id("gbqfba"));

System.out

.println(names.getText());

//JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "names.size()="+names.size());

box = d.findElement(By.className("jsb"));//id("mngb"));

names =box.findElement(By.className("gbqfba"));

System.out

.println(names.getText()); 

box = d.findElement(By.id("gsr"));//id("mngb"));

names =box.findElement(By.name("btnK"));//id("gbqfba"));

System.out

.println(names.getText());

box = d.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='body']/center/div[2]"));//id("mngb"));

names =box.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='gbqfba']"));//id("gbqfba"));

System.out
.println(names.getText());
 

d.quit();

}

}