cover_image: https://www.pexels.com/photo/flat-lay-photography-of-gold-iphone-on-opened-notebook-beside-pen-583847/ canonical_url: --- Photo by Jessica Lewis 🦋 thepaintedsquare Learning in public is grand, and when you have a team that is willing to help with something that seems simple, but you fall into overthink for the wrong items, it can really help to type out your thoughts, actions, and what the program does to frustrate you. And in this case, getting a value I could see in the debugger was the issue The automation needs to check for page elements – and the drop-down selector triggers potentially different elements. Plus, depending on the user logged in, there may well be different options available in that drop-down. Then, I can get the options available for the user on the drop down, get their values, cycle through them, and verify each set of elements on the page. My test account for this has four options on the drop-down, so I budgeted a couple of hours to get each step
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