Selenium Example: How to verify whether the table column is sorted or not?

Question: How do you check whether a table data(values) is sorted or not? Sorting happens when clicking on Table Header(Ex: Name, which is a link).

Name

Venu

Avinash

Dharma

Answer:
We can take an array of String type as expected values and consider the column values which need to be verify are as actual values. Which can be resolved by below example.

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.Collections;

import java.util.List;

public class CompareTwoLists {

       public static void main(String[] ar){

              List<String> expdValues = new ArrayList<String>();

              expdValues.add("venu");

              expdValues.add("avinash");

              expdValues.add("dharma");

              Collections.sort(expdValues);     //to arrange given list in sorting

             

              List<String> actValues = new ArrayList<String>();

              actValues.add("dharma");

              actValues.add("venu");

              expdValues.add("avinash");

              Collections.sort(actValues);

             

              if(expdValues.equals(actValues)){

                     System.out.println("Given Lists are Matched");

              }else{

                     System.out.println("Given lists are not matched");

              }

       }

}