Common Locators in UI Automation

There are some common ways to find locators that are used most of the time in UI Automation. I am listing some of them down so it will expedite the process of writing locators. 

1. So if you are looking for an XPath expression to search based on a class and text:

                        

Class is only "myclass":

//*[@class='myclass' and contains(text(),'deepak')]

Class contains "myclass":

//*[contains(@class,'myclass') and contains(text(),'deepak')] 

2. Select div that contains class AND whose specific child element contains text

                         

//div[contains(@class, 'measure-tab') and contains(.//span, 'someText')]

3. To determine if a checkbox is checked or not through xpath

//input[@type='checkbox' and @checked]

or

//input[@type='checkbox' and not(@checked)]

                 //div[contains(@class, 'measure-tab') and contains(.//span, 'someText')]