Can I Automated Speed Test using Selenium?

Question

I am using beta.speedtest.net to check my network speed. I want to automate this process using Selenium(open to other frameworks as well). This automation process consists of few steps

Clicking on Change Server link
Type my preferred server location
Choose the server of my choice
Run the test
Get the result of each test (in any way possible)

How I am proceeding

    public void RunTheTest()
    {
        IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.Manage().Window.Maximize();
        driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://beta.speedtest.net");
        driver.FindElement(By.LinkText("Change Server")).Click();
    }

Unable to find any element that is critical for my process.

Try this `driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='btn-server-select' and contains(text(), 'Change Server')]")).click();` — sen4ik, Jun 23 '17 at 19:37
@sen4ik Your suggestion works, can you please post it as answer with the reason why it won't work just with "ByText" method, it could help future users. Also do I need to find rest of the elements with same process as well — Manvinder, Jun 23 '17 at 19:42

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 24 '17 at 18:51

The LinkText won't work in your case because the text contains leading and trailing white spaces. Those may be Non-Breaking SPaces

So you have to go with xpath with contains or normalize-space

//a[normalize-space(text())='Change Server']

//a[contains(text(),'Change Server')]

If you want simple then go with className

btn-server-select

as there is only one element with such className

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 23 '17 at 20:07

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Try this:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='btn-server-select' and contains(text(), 'Change Server')]")).click();

answered Jun 23 '17 at 20:07

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Upvote for correct answer but accepted answer has reason why normal approach won't work and more clarification for future users. Thanks – Manvinder Jun 25 '17 at 09:21

Can I Automated Speed Test using Selenium?

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