nathankrishnan/Appium - Common Locator Strategies.csv

## Appium - Common Locator Strategies.csv

          
            Locator Strategy
            Description

            
              Id
              Finds an element by the id attribute on iOS and resource-id attribute on Android.

            
              Accessibility ID 
              Finds an element by the accessibility-id attribute on iOS and the content-desc attribute on Android

            
              Class Name
              Finds an element by its XCUIElementType on iOS and by the widget name on Android. For example, a button class would be XCUIElementTypeButton in iOS and android.widget.Button in Android.

            
              XPath
              Finds an element by its position in the XML representation of the View Hierarchy.

            
              Android UiSelector
              An Android-specific strategy for finding an element using Android’s UiSelector API.

            
              iOS Predicate String
              An iOS-specific strategy for finding an element using iOS's Predicate Format String Syntax.
	Locator Strategy	Description
	Id	Finds an element by the id attribute on iOS and resource-id attribute on Android.
	Accessibility ID	Finds an element by the accessibility-id attribute on iOS and the content-desc attribute on Android
	Class Name	Finds an element by its XCUIElementType on iOS and by the widget name on Android. For example, a button class would be XCUIElementTypeButton in iOS and android.widget.Button in Android.
	XPath	Finds an element by its position in the XML representation of the View Hierarchy.
	Android UiSelector	An Android-specific strategy for finding an element using Android’s UiSelector API.
	iOS Predicate String	An iOS-specific strategy for finding an element using iOS's Predicate Format String Syntax.