Verify Google Search Page Title

Preconditions (2)

Step 1: Open Chrome browser

Step 2: Navigate to 'https://www.google.com'

Step 3: Wait until the page is fully loaded

Step 4: Get the page title

✅ Expected Result: The page title should be 'Google'

Automation Requirements - Selenium WebDriver with JUnit 5

Assertions Needed:

Verify the page title equals 'Google'

Best Practices:

Use WebDriverManager to manage driver binaries

Use explicit waits to wait for page load

Use JUnit 5 assertions

Close the browser after test

Automated Solution

Selenium Java

import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;

public class GoogleTitleTest {
    private WebDriver driver;
    private WebDriverWait wait;

    @BeforeEach
    public void setUp() {
        WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
        driver = new ChromeDriver();
        wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, java.time.Duration.ofSeconds(10));
    }

    @Test
    public void testGoogleTitle() {
        driver.get("https://www.google.com");
        // Wait until the Google Search button is visible to ensure page loaded
        wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.name("btnK")));
        String title = driver.getTitle();
        assertEquals("Google", title, "Page title should be 'Google'");
    }

    @AfterEach
    public void tearDown() {
        if (driver != null) {
            driver.quit();
        }
    }
}

This test uses JUnit 5 and Selenium WebDriver to open Chrome and navigate to Google.

We use WebDriverManager to automatically manage the ChromeDriver binary, so no manual setup is needed.

The @BeforeEach method sets up the driver and explicit wait.

The test method opens the URL, waits explicitly for the Google Search button to appear, ensuring the page is loaded.

Then it gets the page title and asserts it equals "Google" using JUnit's assertEquals.

The @AfterEach method closes the browser to clean up.

This structure follows best practices: explicit waits, proper setup/teardown, and clear assertions.

Common Mistakes - 4 Pitfalls

Not using explicit waits and immediately asserting the title

Hardcoding the path to ChromeDriver instead of using WebDriverManager

Not closing the browser after the test

Using JUnit 4 annotations with JUnit 5 imports

Bonus Challenge

Now add data-driven testing to verify page titles for three different URLs: 'https://www.google.com', 'https://www.bing.com', and 'https://www.yahoo.com'.

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