Problem Statement:

You have already developed your web-based automation framework in Katalon Groovy. Your frontend application uses Polymer that uses shadow dom. Katalon doesn't provide any way to deal with multi level shadow-dom elements. Your application page contains custom HTML tags that is not always easy to be identified directly using Katalon.

Solution:

You can use this Katalon Keyword Plugin by importing jar file or by installing plugin from Katalon Plugin store in your project.

How it works:

Methods:

WebElement findElement(String cssSelector) : use this method if want single element from DOM

List<WebElement> findElements(String cssSelector) : use this if you want to find all elements from DOM

WebElement findElementInsideParent(WebElement parent, String cssSelector) : use this if you want to find a single elements from parent object DOM

List<WebElement> findElementsInsideParent(WebElement parent, String cssSelector) : use this if you want to find all elements from parent object DOM

WebElement getShadowElement(WebElement parent,String selector) : use this if you want to find a single element from parent DOM

List<WebElement> getAllShadowElement(WebElement parent,String selector) : use this if you want to find all elements from parent DOM

WebElement getParentElement(WebElement element) : use this to get the parent element if web element.

List<WebElement> getChildElements(WebElement parent) : use this to get all the child elements of parent element.

List<WebElement> getSiblingElements(WebElement element) : use this to get all adjacent (sibling) elements.

WebElement getSiblingElement(WebElement element, String selector) : use this to get adjacent(sibling) element using css selector.

WebElement getNextSiblingElement(WebElement element) : use this to get next adjacent(sibling) element.

WebElement getPreviousSiblingElement(WebElement element) : use this to get previous adjacent(sibling) element..

boolean isVisible(WebElement element) : use this if you want to find visibility of element

boolean isChecked(WebElement element) : use this if you want to check if checkbox is selected

boolean isDisabled(WebElement element) : use this if you want to check if element is disabled

String getAttribute(WebElement element,String attribute) : use this if you want to get attribute like aria-selected and other custom attributes of elements.

void selectCheckbox(String label) : use this to select checkbox element using label.

void selectCheckbox(WebElement parentElement, String label) : use this to select checkbox element using label.

void selectRadio(String label) : use this to select radio element using label.

void selectRadio(WebElement parentElement, String label) : use this to select radio element from parent DOM using label.

void selectDropdown(String label) : use this to select dropdown list item using label (use this if only one dropdown is present or loaded on UI).

void selectDropdown(WebElement parentElement, String label) : use this to select dropdown list item from parent DOM using label.

void scrollTo(WebElement element) : use this to scroll to web element.

How to use this plugin:

You will have to install Katalon Plugin in your Katalon IDE.

Use sample project Github