Using assertTrue() to validate the presence of text in selenium

Question

I want to validate the presence of a text using assertTrue(), but I am getting a StackOverflow error. I am not sure that the code I have written is correct or not. Need your suggestions.

// Checking the posted text
WebElement postedtext= driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("css123"));
assertTrue("The text is verfied",postedtext.getText().equals(enteredText));

private static void assertTrue(String string, boolean equals) {
assertTrue(string,equals);}

Are you using TestNG or Junit? Logically I don't see any issue in this code block. OP have declared and invoked the same assertTrue(String string, boolean equals). No reason for atleast TestNG to interfere. — undetected Selenium
– undetected Selenium, Commented Jan 5, 2018 at 5:12

Jason · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-05 03:12:46Z

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You have a method called assertTrue(s, b) which calls itself. This is causing an infinite recursion.

edited Jan 5, 2018 at 3:12

answered Jan 5, 2018 at 3:06

Jason

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Alapan Das Over a year ago

What can I do here?

Jason Over a year ago

Delete your implementation of assertTrue() and simply call the one provided by your testing library (JUnit or whatever).

zhh · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-05 04:06:03Z

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It is a name conflicting that you happened to name you assert method the same name as the library method. Rename your assertTrue can solve the problem.

// Checking the posted text
WebElement postedtext= driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("css123"));
myAssertTrue("The text is verfied",postedtext.getText().equals(enteredText));

private static void myAssertTrue(String string, boolean equals) {
    try {
        assertTrue(string,equals);
    } catch (AssertionError e) {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        throw e;
    }
}

Or you just delete your assertTrue and use the library method instead.

edited Jan 5, 2018 at 4:06

answered Jan 5, 2018 at 3:26

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Alapan Das Over a year ago

It did the job. But I am not getting the string message in console. Is the string message suppose to come in console or we have to do something else here ?

zhh Over a year ago

@Alapan Das You have to catch AssertionError and get message from the error, I have updated my code.

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