What is the difference between relative and absolute XPath?

In the context of QA, in this particular scenario, you can use the relative Xpath to locate the “Submit” button. It is so because the relative Xpath expressions are preferred when you deal with dynamically web-based content as they are more resilient as compared to absolute Xpath in terms of changes in the HTML structure.

Here is an example given of how you can locate the “submit” button by using the relative XPath expression in the Python programming language with the selenium web driver:

From selenium import webdriver

# Initialize the WebDriver

Driver = webdriver.Chrome()

# Navigate to the web page

Driver.get(http://example.com)

# Find the “Submit” button using a relative XPath expression

Submit_button = driver.find_element_by_xpath(“//button[@id=’submit’]”)

# Click the “Submit” button

Submit_button.click()

# Close the WebDriver

Driver.quit()

In this particular example, the //button [@id=’Submit’] is a relative Xpath expression that can locate the button elements with the ID “Submit”. Even if the HTML structure had been changed, as long as the ID remains the same, this Xpath expression would successfully locate the “submit” button.

If you use the relative Xpath expression then it can help you in enhancing the maintainability and stability of the automation tests which would make them less prone to break when the web-based page structure changes.

Here is an example given of how you can locate the “submit” button by using a relative Xpath expression in Java programming language with the selenium WebDriver:-

Import org.openqa.selenium.By;

Import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

Import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

Import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

Public class RelativeXPathExample {

    Public static void main(String[] args) {

        // Set the path to the ChromeDriver executable

        System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”, “path/to/chromedriver”);

        // Initialize the WebDriver

        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

        // Navigate to the web page

        Driver.get(http://example.com);

        // Find the “Submit” button using a relative XPath expression

        WebElement submitButton = driver.findElement(By.xpath(“//button[@id=’submit’]”));

        // Click the “Submit” button

        submitButton.click();

        // Close the WebDriver

        Driver.quit();

    }

}

Here is an example given of how you can locate the “submit” button by using a relative Xpath expression in python programming language with the selenium WebDriver:-

From selenium import webdriver

From selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

# Set the path to the ChromeDriver executable

Chrome_driver_path = “path/to/chromedriver”

# Initialize the WebDriver

Driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_driver_path)

# Navigate to the web page

Driver.get(http://example.com)

# Find the “Submit” button using a relative XPath expression

Submit_button_xpath = “//button[@id=’submit’]”

Submit_button = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, submit_button_xpath)

# Click the “Submit” button

Submit_button.click()

# Close the WebDriver

Driver.quit()