Write Selenium Code That Locates Two Page Elements and Returns Their Text Values

In a QA engineer interview, the coding exercise was: write Selenium code that fetches and returns the text values of two elements on a web page. The expectation was a working version within two or three attempts, so correctness on the first runs mattered more than breadth. ```hint What "text value" means Decide, for each element type, whether you need the rendered text or the value of a form field, and which Selenium call returns each. ``` ```hint Timing Consider what happens if one of the elements is rendered by JavaScript after the page has loaded. ``` ### Clarifying Questions - Which language binding (Python, Java, ...) and which browser? - How are the two elements identified: id, CSS selector or XPath? Are they inside an iframe or a shadow DOM? - Are they ordinary text elements, or form fields such as inputs whose content is a value? - Should the function navigate to the page itself, or receive a driver that is already on it? ### What a Strong Answer Covers - A correct locator strategy and current (Selenium 4) API usage - Explicit waits for the elements instead of fixed sleeps - The right kind of text for each element type, normalized - Error handling when an element is missing, and cleanup of the browser session - Code that can be reused and tested, not a one-off script ### Follow-up Questions - One element's text is still empty when you read it, because it is filled in asynchronously. How do you wait for the content, not just the element? - The element is re-rendered between locating it and reading it, and you get a stale element error. What do you do? - How would you turn this into an assertion in a test framework?