FindByScript

[Xcaciv]

Programmers appreciate being able to leverage their existing knowledge. Often there are libraries in the web application under test that the user is familiar with. Being able to use these to select nodes would reduce barrier to entry and build time on tests. Granted, this may not be the cleanest solution since it bypasses some of the value of Selenium webdriver, so I would understand if this functionality would need to be an external package.

I was trying to implement this, but decided I would ask to see what the best placement for it would be. I think can select a node with something like Jquery and cast it to IEnumerable by doing something like:

var aWebElement = (IEnumerable<IWebElement>)browser.ExecuteScript("$('#foo').parent('a')");

From there it would be nice to be able to do something like

scope.FindbyScript("$('#foo').parent('a')").Click();

If this makes sense, is there a way to unobtrusively add an extension? If so, where would be best? Because I would find great use for it, I would be happy to implement it myself.