If you need many of these Xpath queries, you might want to use a library that converts CSS selectors to XPath, as CSS selectors are usually a lot easier to both read and write than XPath queries. More on stackoverflow.com

I can see you go that xpath from copying out of the developer tools in your browser. Full xpaths like that are the worst; it's much better to formulate a relative xpath by perusing the DOM. The structure is not too hard once you understand it. First, a double slash at the beginning means, find all elements matching this description, at any level of the DOM heirarchy For example, to get all hrefs, you could use this xpath: '//a/@href' Next, note that you can specify any arbitrary kind of selector using square brackets. So in your case, something like this might work: '//a[contains(@class, "myListing")]' Since you're using selenium, you don't want to target the href. You want the 'a' element, so you can click on it. You can also use dot path navigation, like the linux cli. So: '//a[contains(@class, "myListing")]/..' would retrieve the parent element of the "myListing" link. double slashes are not limited to the root, and you can use them after any element to recursively search the dom under that element for another match. This can be very helpful. You can test you xpaths in the browser by opening developer tools, going to the console, and entering an xpath like so: $x('//a[contains(@class, "myListing")]') there are some good cheat sheets out there to give you more info on this. More on reddit.com

Use ID or Class before CSS /XPath if possible. Between CSS/XPath it really comes down to what you and your team (if you have one) feel more comfortable with. I personally prefer XPath syntactically and also feel like I can be more specific with what I want using XPath, especially with text and parent/child selectors. More on reddit.com

So many people in this sub showing that they have never actually worked as a QA. Pretending like learning xpath is a bad thing and that QA has any say on what the devs are doing. More on reddit.com