Nabble - Selenium - Users

internet explorer always hangs

2009-12-10T04:46:33Z

No matter what I try, running selenium tests on internet explorer always hangs.
Using firefox or chrome works withou a problem.

Using Selenium 1.0.1 on Vista/IE7

SeleneseTestCase always opening iexplorer

2009-12-10T04:36:48Z

I'm using SeleneseTestCase with Eclipse/JUnit like:

class SearchTests extends SeleneseTestCase {

void testSearch() {
setUp("http://www.google.com", "*chrome")
..

But it always tests against iexplorer, no matter what I provide as browserString in setup.

If I create a custom testcase (not extending SeleneseTestCase) chrome is started.
I guess there is something wrong with SeleneseTestCase and the provided browserString.

Dynamic variables between different tests

2009-11-27T08:02:20Z

Im using selenium RC 1.0 beta 2 under Linux system with CruiseControl to run automatic scripts. Workflow to be tested consists of creating different application objects. And I need to create in first testCase for example Object1 , and then use its Id in next testCase to create object2. But its Id written to a variable in testCase1 can't be accessed in next testCase. Who can advise something? May be some workaround (I think that merging all tests in one great script is not good workaround or new version of Selenium RC ?

Please, I'm very need an advise.

How to select a combobox item using java and selenium RC

2009-11-25T18:13:15Z

I got a problem with the combobox, while I am using a selenium RC.

I wrote some codes in java and the elements in my web page are generated automatically by java script.
So the IDs of the elements on the web page are random.

my codes are like this:(mBrowser is the selenium object)

mBrowser.click("xpath=//*[contains(@id,'root')]");//(click this span will generate a combobox)
mBrowser.mouseOver("document.getElementById('table').getElementsByTagName('TD')[2]");//(the selected item)
mBrowser.click("document.getElementById('table').getElementsByTagName('TD')[2]");

However, after the click action, the selected item was just highlighted,and nothing happened, the combobox list was still there.

I've try everything,would you please give me some advices?

Selenium IDE versus Selenium RC /Java in Eclipse

2009-11-19T10:18:05Z

Hello folks,
I'm running a Junit test case (Eclipse) to verify static elemt on a webpage. I'm geting the following result:
Got result: OK,false on session
When I run the same test in Selenium IDE, it passes and when I use the Find button in Selenium IDE, it finds the element in question on the webpage
The code in Eclipse is as follows: verifyEquals("Name:", selenium.getText("//tr[6]/td[1]/table/tbody/tr[1]/td[1]"));
Any suggestions thanks in advance

isElementPresent returns false for an element I'm able to get the name !

2009-11-12T04:05:30Z

Hello,

I'm using Selenium with Java and I'm trying to control Internet Explorer.

I am using a javascript snippet to retrieve a link element.
I'm able to get the name of the element or any of its attributes using the getEval method.
But the isElementPresent method always returns false for that element !

Here is my code:

void testLink()
{
String linkText = "NameOfTheLink";
linkPath = getLinkJavascriptSnippet() + "getLink( '" + linkText + "' )";

String eval = session().getEval( linkPath + ".nodeName" );
System.out.println( "eval: " + eval );

boolean present = session().isElementPresent( "dom=" + linkPath );
System.out.println( "present: " + present );
}

And here is the result:
eval: A
present: false

How the heck is it possible to get the name of an element that does not exist !?!

Is it a Selenium bug ?
Am I missing something here ?
Any advice on this issue would be greatly appreciated !

Thanks in advance
Damien

Re: selenium.selectframe("Desktop Innerpage ")

2009-11-06T02:51:42Z

Hi

Try to using as see below

selenium.selectFrame("relative=top");
selenium.selectFrame("Desktop Innerpage ");

I hope to go :)

Thanks

HS-10 wrote:

hi

I am running a simple test where the script received by the IDE says
selenium.selectFrame("Desktop Innerpage ");

Running this test in java I get : ERROR: Element Desktop Innerpage not found on session 300828

I have tried to to use :
selenium.selectFrame("relative=up");
selenium.selectFrame("relative=parent");

but nothing helps.

Anyone knows how to solve this bug?

Thanks
yuval

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gotolabel - return to where the goto command was originally called

2009-11-02T14:03:03Z

Hi,

...
echo / Test Case #1
...do something...
gotolabel / UncheckAll

echo / Test Case #2
...do something...
gotolabel / UncheckAll

echo / Test Case #3
...do something...
gotolabel / UncheckAll
label / UncheckAll
...

All I want is to be able to "return" to the spot in the script at which the gotolable command was called. Is this possible?

gotolabel - return to where the goto command was originally called

2009-11-02T14:02:52Z

gotolabel - return to where the goto command was originally called

2009-11-02T13:59:57Z

Re: Selenium to test Stand Alone applications

2009-10-29T11:59:00Z

Selenium is for testing web applications. I don't think, we can perform testing on stand-alone apps using Selenium.

thanks.

Re: Selenium - maven configuration

2009-10-27T19:34:50Z

indranilsarkar wrote:

I have a selenium test suite which is having two types of groups "sanity" and "All"
I want to run mvn command which will tell maven which group should be executed
Command could be like this : mvn -Dtest=sanity test

Any pointer?

You could use maven profiles and then run maven like this: mvn verify -P sanityTests

You would need to configure maven-surefire-plugin to include the Tests you want to run and exclude the ones you don't. Something like this i suppose:

<profiles>
<profile>
<id>sanityTests</id>
<properties>
<environment>development</environment>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>

<excludes>
<exclude>**/it/**</exclude>
<exclude>**/selenium/**</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>test</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>

<excludes>
<exclude>none</exclude>
</excludes>
<includes>
<include>**/it/**</include>
<include>**/selenium/**</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>

[SOLVED] Maximize browser window when testing with Selenium RC

2009-10-27T13:02:10Z

Hi all,
You would have noticed that there isn't a way to maximize (fully strech-out) the browser window using selenium RC. However this is possible using the JAVA robot class. Check out the post maximize browser window on my blog to get the code to do just that. I have tested this on Firefox and IE but it should work on every browser.

Popups again!

2009-10-26T11:48:22Z

I know that many questions along this theme have been asked previously, but here is my specific case:
I'm running Java selenium tests by inheriting from SeleneseTestCase. IE7 on WinXP.
In this one test, the framework 'clicks on' a link that invokes a popup window (by submitting a form whose target is _blank). I have put a call to pause() so Selenium waits 30 seconds for the popup window to appear, and it's contents initialise. I have observed this occurring. The problem is that after that pause, when the test calls:
selenium.getAllWindowTitles()
it only returns only one element - the title of the original IE window, not the popup. I have no way to refer to the popup window to validate it's content.
Please advise if there's another approach I can take to 'refer to' the popup window. I need this test to run on IE.
Thanks,

how to configure selenium server and selenium script on diffrent machines

2009-10-22T05:11:39Z

I have started selenium server on machine A. Now I am running selenium perl script on machine B.

When I start the perl script, it is opening the browser on machine A instead on machine B.

What configuration changes I need to make to make the browser open in machine B, where I start the Selenium Perl automation script.

I am using Selenium-RC on Machine A.

Selenium - maven configuration

2009-10-22T00:54:56Z

I have a selenium test suite which is having two types of groups "sanity" and "All"
I want to run mvn command which will tell maven which group should be executed
Command could be like this : mvn -Dtest=sanity test

Any pointer?

Selenium - can it handle captcha validation?

2009-10-21T09:22:12Z

I have a sign up form with copy characters. Could there be any solution, so that selenium test case can even read captcha from the for, and write it to the captcha validation text box?

Selenium with Perl

2009-10-20T14:36:09Z

Hi All,
Does someone know where to get perl version of all the commands used in selenium.

Thank You.

Selenium server jams to "Checking Resource aliases"

2009-10-19T23:54:05Z

I try to start my simple test suite like this
java -jar selenium-server.jar -multiwindow -port 4444 -htmlSuite "*firefox" "http://www.google.com" "C:\path\mysuite.html" "C:\path\myresults.html"

It goes fine until it jams to "Checking Resource aliases". This comes when Selenium is trying to finish suite's first test case. From Selenium IDE test suite works just fine. Does anyone know what might be wrong? Thanks in advance!

Re: Need help with pop-up issue using Selenium RC in IE7 testing

2009-10-07T03:58:01Z

Hi,

Which type of popup you are getting?

Regards,
Boomi.

Hades_Pluto wrote:

Hi all,

I am having some trouble in IE7 testing with Selenium RC. I have no trouble automate the test in Firefox but I can never work around this issue in IE testing. Whenever there has to deal with a pop-up window, I am receiving an "Permission Denied" error message but I have disabled Pop-up blocker in IE browser, enabled all the Scripting options, and shutdown all the Virus-Scan. I have also checked on the Machine Debug Manaager (MDM) to make sure that there is no any influence to the IE automation testing. A lot of people have helped me already but i still cannot find a solution to work around this. Any suggestions?

By the way, the pop-up window does not have any title and no window id associate with it, I would like to like a way to work around this issue in this situation if it is possible.

Thank you very much.

Best,

Hades Pluto

Selenium to test Stand Alone applications

2009-10-06T22:59:34Z

Hi Friends,

I work on a product that runs as a Stand Alone application and we are trying to see if we can use Selenium to automate our product. But after going through the Selenium website and referring to other forums i have understood that Selenium supports automation of ONLY Web applications. So my specific question is -

= > Is it possible to test Stand Alone applications using Selenium ? If so, can you please point me to the appropriate references ?

Thanks,
Pravin

Need help with pop-up issue using Selenium RC in IE7 testing

2009-10-05T14:11:17Z

Hi all,

I am having some trouble in IE7 testing with Selenium RC. I have no trouble automate the test in Firefox but I can never work around this issue in IE testing. Whenever there has to deal with a pop-up window, I am receiving an "Permission Denied" error message but I have disabled Pop-up blocker in IE browser, enabled all the Scripting options, and shutdown all the Virus-Scan. I have also checked on the Machine Debug Manaager (MDM) to make sure that there is no any influence to the IE automation testing. A lot of people have helped me already but i still cannot find a solution to work around this. Any suggestions?

By the way, the pop-up window does not have any title and no window id associate with it, I would like to like a way to work around this issue in this situation if it is possible.

Thank you very much.

Best,

Hades Pluto

Re: Data Driven test with Selenium

2009-10-03T12:02:18Z

Hi All,

I have created a tutorial on Data Driven testing using Selenium & TestNG in the Eclipse environment on my blog. I have described a very simple but very powerful way of storing & retrieving test data from excel files and and linking them to the test logic in your java test class file. The example given is self containing and very easy to follow. I have used this approach to automate close to 1000 test cases so far.

Cheers

Data Driven Testing with Selenium and TestNG

2009-10-03T11:58:59Z

Selenium-java client not working with any IE8 on Vista - getting Javascript error "null" is null or not an object

2009-09-30T12:52:44Z

Hi

I am using selenium java client and lately has spent some good chunk of time trying to get it to work with IE 8 on Vista. I am using selenium server 1.0.1, but also tried 1.0-beta-2 and 1.0.0 - all getting the same error. Here's the error: before the start of every test, i get a Javascript error popup window that displays error message: "null" is null or not an object in C:/[userhomedir]/[IE temp profile dir]/selenium-bot.js. If i press either yes or no, test finishes normally and the same problem happens when the next test starts.

I have tried not only different server versions, but also different browser executable strings, *iexplore, *iehta, *iexploreproxy. *iexplore and *iehta produce the above error, but *iexploreproxy simply freezes on the first page of a test (does not produce that javascript error however). It is possible that *iexploreproxy works but is simply very very slow, but i set the timeout to 20 times as high and the test was timing out before doing something as simple as clicking on the link.

Have anyone else had a similar problem with IE 8 (or any other version of IE). If yes, please post what your remedy was.

Thank you

Re: how to handle showModelDialog using selenium

2009-09-28T23:17:18Z

You can use "selectWindow" and "windowFocus" commands.

thanks.

ki2 wrote:

Hi,

How do I get hold of modal window and do some action on it using selenium.

I have on url which opens a modal window (probably javascript). The window has two input fields and two buttons. I need to enter data in the input fields and click one of the button.

How can I do this using selenium?

~ki2

Re: Data Driven test with Selenium

2009-09-25T23:47:36Z

thanks for sharing this.

thanks.

Re: Not able to click on link because of some of French or German characters.

2009-09-25T23:40:07Z

use xpath (or) id of the link in script for clicking it. this would just be one work around.

thanks.

ajnavi wrote:

I have french link called "Qui sommes-nous ?", and because of ?, selenium is unable to perform click.

Selenium server log: 13:03:22.012 INFO - Command request: isElementPresent[//a[text()='Qui sommes-nous ?'], ] on session 4a0b9ea8c66f40b1a24fd772b0f69a17
13:03:22.196 INFO - Got result: OK,false on session 4a0b9ea8c66f40b1a24fd772b0f69a17

Any thought most welcome.

Re: Selenium selectWindow command

2009-09-25T23:31:51Z

Or try to move the focus to new window and then run the script. use this command - windowFocus

thanks.

Re: How to select window

2009-09-25T23:12:32Z

Use selectWindow - to select the window first and then use -
windowFocus - to focus onto the selected window.

thanks.

Gaurang033 wrote:

Hi folks,

I am new to the selenium. I am testing a website which has a button. Upon clicking on the buttion it opens a new window. But the strange thing is that it doesn't have any window Id or name. I tried to select it using the title but no Luck..

Here is the code that opens the New window

<button onclick='window.open("http://google.co.in","","toolbar=no,status=yes,menubar=no,location=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,width=1000,height=600,top=80,left=80");'>Popup</button>

I tried the following things..

getAllWindowTitles()[1]

getAllWindowNames()[1]

getAllWindowIds()[1]

with waitForPopUp and selectWindow but It's always fails to select the window..

Please let me know if there is any way to select the window

Re: assertTextNotPresent not working as expected

2009-09-25T23:06:54Z

try this, it works -

<tr>
<td>open</td>
<td>http://www.google.com</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>assertTextNotPresent</td>
<td>yahoo</td>
<td></td>
</tr>

thanks.

Hello, i´am also biginner... I´am working with IDE 1.0.2

By me it´s NOT working. I tried a lot, but it won´t work.

Command: assertTextNotPresent

i tried all combinations in target and value field, with quotes and without. It isn´t working. Is it a bug?
I there another way to check the text on page? The text i want to check i simply saved in form tag.

Thank you.

Alexandre Garel wrote:

Roger P a écrit :

>This is my first try with this promising product.
>
>When I run assertTextNotPresent in the IDE it fails and I get this in the console:
>
># [info] Executing: |open | /modules/start/start.php3 | |
># [info] Executing: |assertTextNotPresent | | sxsx |
># [error] Page text not found
>
>
TextPresent and TextNotPresent are exception to the target/value rule as
you have to put the value in the target field

|assertTextNotPresent | sxsx | |

Hope it helps
Alex

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Re: How to run tests in a live system periodically?

2009-09-25T22:57:46Z

May not be a best solution, but just my thought -
how about writing a java program which doesn't complete and then calling all selenium tests in that? something like this -

While (1=1) {
aPro=new Thread(this);
aPro.start();
InvoteSeleniumtests (); //call tests here
aPro.sleep(1000*120); //2 hours
}

Once you run this program, it never ends and would continue to run your tests for every 2 hours. Not sure if this makes sense, but just thought - this could be one of the solution.

thanks.

sudhi123 wrote:

Hello,

I have written test automation using webdriver/selenium. Now my automation is fine and it up and working from my eclipse.

The problem is we have live systems where my automated tests has to run for every hour and see the live application critical functionality is working and log them to the data base.

I have done everything except putting my tests run against the live systems. I really don't know how to run my tests against the live system. Windows task creation is not the best option that i have.

Can somebody suggest something ? or is anybody has done any similar to this ?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Re: How to disable Javascript when running Selenium?

2009-09-25T22:46:43Z

can you not disable on the browser?

thanks.

chobo2 wrote:

Hi

I want to do some server side validation. How can I disable java script so I can test it?

Thanks

Re: How to create Test Cases with Internet Explorer as a browser

2009-09-25T22:27:32Z

May be this framework would help you in creating data driven tests using Selenium RC. Some of my colleagues use this and it helps you in recording tests using IDE, and then you can convert them to excel sheets, and provide input data. from then - it will help you to run the tests in IE.

http://www.w3qa.eu/index.html

Please check this for now, I will try to send you more information over the weekend.

thanks.

jm legrand wrote:

In my organisation, we have used Selenium IDE to add regression tests to the release process.

We are facing a problem with a couple of application, that are only IE compatible. For these, we can't use the Firefox plugin to record the tests.

I have tried to manually create HTML test cases that are executed with Selenium Core for validation. There are after run against Selenium RC coupled to Internet Explorer. The manual creation is however a painful step in the process.

What would be a proper solution to create and record these test cases with Internet Explorer (as the browser constraint).

Regards,

jml

Re: ClickAndWait command not working in IE

2009-09-25T22:22:24Z

Can you use "pause"? that might work.

thanks.

Roshni Basu wrote:

Yes "click" works. But It does not help to run my test case. I am trying to create a test case where I have to click a button and then it should go to the new page. So either it should use "ClickAndWait" or "WaitForTextPresent" or "WaitForElementPresent" . And whenever I use any command using wait it fails when run in IE but works fine in firefox. So I want to know Whether IE does not support any selenium command like "ClickAndWait" where it has to wait?