Maruti Techlabs Senior QA Engineer -Software Testing Interview Questions and Answers

Locators used in Selenium are used to identify web elements on a web page.

• Selenium supports various locators such as ID, Name, Class Name, Tag Name, Link Text, Partial Link Text, CSS Selector, and XPath.

• ID and Name locators are the most commonly used locators in Selenium.

• CSS Selector and XPath locators are more powerful and flexible than other locators.

• Example: driver.findElement(By.id("elementID"));

API methods are functions that allow communication between different software systems.

• GET: retrieves data from a server

• POST: sends data to a server to create a resource

• PUT: updates an existing resource on a server

• DELETE: removes a resource from a server

• PATCH: updates a part of an existing resource on a server