Checking text on web page using WebDriver

While testing any web application, we need to make sure that it is displaying correct text under given elements. Selenium WebDriver provides a method to achieve this. We can retrieve the text from any WebElement using getText() method.

Example
Lets create a test that check for the proper text in flipkart menu tab.

Code:

@Test

public void testFlipkartMenuText() {

    //Get Text from first item and store it in String variable

    String electronics = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("li[data-key='electronics']>a>span")).getText();

 

    //Compare actual & required texts

    assertEquals("Electronics",electronics); 

}

The WebElement class' getText() method returns value of the innerText attribute
of the element.

P.S : Given script may not work on flipkart site. I've written this code just to give some basic idea of using getText() method