what is assert in selenium

Question

I need to know how can I do assertion in Selenium WebDriver. My situation is I have one edit, but on screen, but that edit button is present on some certain criteria.

So I want to check that if that button is present. It should be clicked on and it should open another child window and should perform certain actions. If that edit button element is not present on the screen, it should check the next condition which is the log off button in my keyword framework.

Answer 1

Assertions are used for validating a test case and helps us understand if a test case has passed or failed. The assertion is considered to be met if the actual result of an application matches with that of the expected result.

While automating web applications using Selenium, we need to validate our tests to verify if they are working as expected or not (that is, if a test case result is pass/fails).

There are two types of assertions in Selenium and the categorization depends on how the assertion behaves after a condition is pass or fail. They are Hard Assertions & Soft Assertions