Few things about handling those nasty dynamic elements using Xpath

Have you ever come across a situation where you struggle to find a stable Xpath of a element .I know it's frustrating, It is even more frustrating when elements of your test subject tend to change their paths with each version.Here are some tweaks applied by automation engineers to handle dynamic element and find stable Xpaths.

Scenario1: Dynamic elements with text as innerHTML.

In the below image you can see that the highlighted div has dynamic parents so it is impossible to find a relative Xpath based on the parent element.There are numerous div elements with the same class name on top of that that class name has a space which makes it fairly impossible to find a stable Xpath.

How ever you can use the following text() function to match the innerHTML of the div.

Scernario 2: Dynamic SVG element.

 In the following picture you can see a SVG element which has a dynamic class name.How to handle that.

 In my scenario , the position of <g> element is at 9th.However this might change with each release of the product I am testing.How to handle this kind of situation.For this you can use the contains function like following.

Scenario 3:Multiple elements with same xpath

In the following picture the inputs has similar relative Xpath.

You can use the (..) operator for handling this kind of situation. As the label text is constant for each elements.

Thanks I hope this helps you.