Css/Xpath changes affecting the Selenium automation Effeciency

Hi All,

I am using Selenium Web driver from last 1year,  i have Developed End-to-End Automation Test Scripts capturing Css/Xpath  for our web application. As part of Agile model, there are changes in Css/Xpath's in every Sprint releases for which i need to find those changes and update everytime, which is timetaking. For every realease we have only 5 days time, but its taking 2 days for me to make the Xpath/Css  changes accordingly and in remaining 3days i am not having time to execute my End-to-End scripts with Wider, which is really impacting the Automation process.

Example:

Say in Sprint2 i have some css like div.itenary-date>span.value.
In Sprint3 its changing as            div.itenary-date>div>span.value


Can anybody tell me the solution for how to maintain this Css/Xpath changes for every build

Regards,
Madan

What is Xpath? How we can use xpath in selenuim webdriver to identify objects?

nitin15790 wrote:What is Xpath? How we can use xpath in selenuim webdriver to identify objects?

 Do some research first.  driver.findElement(By.xpath("xpathLocation")).click();

To the original post, I would highly suggest having the developers put IDs on these elements. From my understanding this is a simple and best practice that most developers should do anyway. With an ID, you won't run into these issues of having to tweak your scripts every time a new sprint comes around. If your organization values the effort put towards your automation, they should be considering your time to better their processes.