How to use assertions for isdispalyed() method in selenium webdriver

[sreekumar]

Hi tarun,

I want to user assertions in my projects. when i am using like below

Assert.assertTrue(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@id='buttonshowmenu3333333']")).isDisplayed(),"TOC web element is not found");

Exception is throwing and test case is failed because of invalid xpath. But i want to show error message that i mentioned in the 2nd parameter in Testngresults.xml.

Please do need your help.....

Thanks
sreekumar

[softwaretestingforum]

Your xPath seems ok but this solution won't work if element is not available and WebDriver will throw exception.
You may like to borrow some ideas from these threads -

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5922930/iselementpresent-in-selenium-2-0
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10934305/selenium-c-sharp-webdriver-how-to-detect-if-element-is-visible