Assertions

DollarX includes custom Hamcrest Matchers to allow to create assertions. Their benefits are:

  • Expressiveness and readability. For example:

    assertThat(myElement, isPresent(1000).timesOrMore());
    
  • Useful error messages. For example, suppose we have the following assertion:

assertThat(div.withText("flex-item"), isPresent(1000).timesOrMore());

and there are only 4 elements with “John”. The assertion error will be:

Expected: browser page contains (div, that has class flex-item) at least 1000 times
   but: (div, that has class flex-item) appears 4 times
  • Optimized for atomicity and speed. For example, the previous assertion will construct a single XPath that find a DOM with at least 1000 elements that we look for. This improves correctness and performance.

    Another example: isAbsent() matcher, constructs an xpath that finds a DOM without the element that is expected to be absent. This means that in case of success (the common case), it returns immediately, while the standard way of calling WebDriver.find will block for several seconds, until timeout is reached and then it will throw an exception that will need to be caught by in the code of the test.

All the matchers are in CustomMatchers and singlebrowser.custommatchers.CustomMatchers. There are 2 flavors - one that supports multiple instances of browsers, and a simplified one that supports a single instance of browser. See the JavaDoc for details.