Cascading drop-down lists with selenium

Question

It is very difficult for me to test cascading dropdowns with Selenium. I would like to know what a standard approach is. I don’t understand what commands to use, for example, ClickAndWait, WaitForTextPresent, etc. It seems to be a bit of a hack to try and get it to work.

Has anyone got selenium to properly verify this? An example scenario should be to have 3 lists in which there is a car make, model and color. Each of them is inhabited in turn by the other. Selena needs to somehow wait until the next list is filled before the test begins.

Answer 1

Generally, the best way to do this is to do

Select | select1 | option waitForSelectx | select2 | possiblePattern Select | select2 | option waitForSelectx | select3 | possiblePattern Select | select3 | option 

waitForSelectx is just an abbreviation for one of the commands of type waitForSelect. You will need to choose the one that best suits you.