I'm working on a Product automation(Web CMS), where element.Click() shows the inconsistent behaviour. Basically we are using,
Selenium + Nunit GUI(unit testing framework) - To run the test cases from local on a particular environment
Selenium + Asp.net web application - Multiple user's can run the test cases on different environment
Here environment I mean different levels(Dev, SIT, QA, Production).
My Concern
In one of my test cases, I want to Click a button. So for that, I have tried few code. But all are inconsistent behaviour. Here Inconsistent I mean, the code whatever I wrote for clicking a button are only working in my local or server and viceversa.
1st attempt:-
I tried all the element locator's
IWebElement element = driver.FindElement(By.Id("element id goes here"))
Working fine at my local, but not in server
Result - Failed
2nd attempt:-
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("Element XPath goes here")).SendKeys(Keys.Enter);
Working fine at server, but not in local
Result - Failed
3rd attempt:-
IWebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("something"));
IJavaScriptExecutor executor = (IJavaScriptExecutor)driver;
executor.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].click()", element);
Not working in both(local and server)
Result - Failed
At last, I tried waiting for the element to be visible and performing action
4th attempt:-
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60));
return wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementIsVisible(By.XPath("element xpath goes here")));
After webdriver wait performing action on that element (element.click())
Working fine at local but not in server
Result - Failed
I'm looking for a solution, where Clicking the button should not be an inconsistent behaviour. Basically it should work fine in both (Local and Server). Your help would be greatly appreciated..Thanks in advance
FYI - I'm testing in Mozilla Firefox browser 38.5.2
I'm using Selenium in C# locally on Win7 and remotely on Win10 and MacOS with the Firefox browser and also noticed that Firefox sometimes requires special treatment for IWebElement.Click(). So I wrote myself an extension method, which works fine for me, no matter by what locator the element was found:
public static void Click(this IWebElement element, TestTarget target)
{
if (target.IsFirefox)
{
var actions = new Actions(target.Driver);
actions.MoveToElement(element);
// special workaround for the FirefoxDriver
// otherwise sometimes Exception: "Cannot press more then one button or an already pressed button"
target.Driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.Zero);
// temporarily disable implicit wait
actions.Release().Build().Perform();
target.Driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(MyDefaultTimeoutInSeconds));
Thread.Sleep(500);
actions.MoveToElement(element);
actions.Click().Build().Perform();
}
else
{
element.Click();
}
}
If you want more stable behavior for your test cases, I would recommend using ChromeDriver. It never needs any special treatment at all, and it's also much faster than the FirefoxDriver.
Related
The same method used in the test automation project I wrote in c # does not work in internet explorer 11 even though the movement method I use is chrome, firefox and edge. It does not give any errors, but the next action is fail
log.Debug("fare " + by + " üzeriine dogru haraket ediyor, webelement label ");
IWebElement element = GetElement(by);
Actions Actions = new Actions(Driver);
WaitElementToClickable(Driver, by, 5);
Actions.MoveToElement(element);
Actions.Perform();
WaitElementToClickable(Driver, by, 5);
I spent a long time trying to get actions to work across all browsers, and for IE I found the following helped.
Selenium webdriver v2.29.0 (https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/master/java/CHANGELOG) added:
IEDriver supports "requireWindowFocus" desired capability. When
using this and native events, the IE driver will demand focus and
user interactions will use SendInput() for simulating user
interactions. Note that this will mean you MUST NOT use the
machine running IE for anything else as the tests are running.
When I set the IEDriver I use:
InternetExplorerOptions options = new InternetExplorerOptions();
options.requireWindowFocus();
webDriver = new InternetExplorerDriver(options);
And all my move to and click events work fine. I'm using IE11.125-11.309 and Selenium (java bindings) 3.7.1.
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
//Dev environment
driver.Url = /*URL*/;
var trialGroupName = driver.FindElement(By.Name("TrialGroupName"));
trialGroupName.SendKeys(/*trial group name */);
var userName = driver.FindElement(By.Name("UserName"));
userName.SendKeys(/*username*/);
var password = driver.FindElement(By.Name("UserPassword"));
password.SendKeys(/*password*/);
var loginButton = driver.FindElement(By.Id("Ok"));
loginButton.Click();
//Find and click on Browse tab
var browseTab = driver.FindElement(By.Id("17"));
browseTab.Click();
}
}
OpenQA.Selenium.NoSuchElementException: 'no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"id","selector":"17"}
(Session info: chrome=58.0.3029.110)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.30.477700 (0057494ad8732195794a7b32078424f92a5fce41),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64)'
Here's the inspect information:
<td>
<a id="17" class="defaultMenu initMenu" href="javascript:onMenuHref(17)" notran="">Browse</a>
</td>
I've also tried running it with the XPath (both the short version from Chrome and the long version from FireBug) and I receive the same error. I've tried adding in an implicit wait and a Thread.Sleep() but still received the same error. Also tried starting on a different field and tabbing to it and then it gave me the same exception but on the new field. I also tried playing around with cssSelector this morning and couldn't get that to work either. I did try to do an explicit wait but I'll be honest, I'm still trying to digest and understand it as waits are a new concept and I don't fully understand it, so I don't think I'm doing it right.
I'm a beginner, and I'm currently just trying to write the script to get it to the actual page that needs testing. I've been teaching myself some coding and selenium as I'm the only QA person at my company right now and I really think we could benefit from automation. This portion of the page isn't actually programmed by us it's done by a third party who hosts the system we use so I'm limited to what I see in the inspect.
(I commented out the user login information and URL because it is for internal use only and the page can't be reached outside of our systems anyways. Also I'm pretty sure I'm not allowed to do so by my employer).
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, or any additional resources I can use. I've been using google mostly so there may be other pages you are aware of that could help me that I haven't found yet.
The login button takes you to a new page, which you need to wait for it to load. Try using an explicit wait to wait for the tab to be clickable. The timeout is 10 seconds in the following example, so modify that as needed.
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
IWebElement browseTab = wait.Until(ExpectedConditions.ElementToBeClickable(By.Id("17")));
I have an issue when switching from ChromeDriver to PhantomJSWebDriver, that I need a workaround for.
Using the ChromeDriver I perform a .Click on a visible element, with another visible element next to it. the .Click makes the web page place a 'popup' over these elements. I then perform a .Click on an element within this 'popup' and it then goes away, and I am able to perform a .Click on the second of the original elements and it all works fine.
However, when I switch to using the PhantomJSDriver it complains that the second element is NOT visible after the 'popup' has been removed, and so wont do the .Click.
Is this a known issue with the PhantomJS driver, or is there some way to get it to 're-evaluate' what is visible? I have tried using a DriverWait looking for the element and waiting for it to be 'Displayed' but that doesn't work
WebDriverWait waitforpopdown = new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(15));
waitforpopdown.Until(d => {
var elpd = driver.FindElement(By.ClassName(trid));
return elpd.Displayed;
});
I'm using PhantomJS 2.1.1 and Selenium 2.52.0.0 and using C#
I had the same problem with PhantomJSDriver. It hasn't the same javascript engine than Chrome, FF and IE.
I "fixed" my problem by installing a selenium server that is running chrome on a docker. If you have the ability to do that, I would recommend to work that way. It's an actual chrome browser that is running, so you don't have any difference between your different types of chromes.
You can find information about it on the following page : https://github.com/peroumal1/docker-chrome-selenium
EDIT : You have to declare your driver like this (note that it's java Syntax, but I'm sure you'll be able to find the C# syntax) :
return new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://myurl.url:8888"), DesiredCapabilities.chrome());
Setup Details:
Webdriver 2.39
IEDriverServer 2.39
I'm running Selenium automation on an internal site. The code works fine on Firefox 27 but there's an issue on IE8
I'm trying to first clear and enter text in a text field on IE. This fails on IE with the error "Element must not be hidden, disabled or read-only." I checked the element properties on IE and it does indeed show enabled as False, even though the element is plainly available. On Firefox, enabled is correctly set to True.
I've tried to use Xpath and sendkeys but they don't work. Here what I tried:
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[#name='tagName']")).Clear(); - not working
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//input[#name='tagName']")).SendKeys(tagName); - not working
driver.FindElement(By.Id("tagName")).SendKeys(Keys.Control); - not working
driver.FindElement(By.Id("tagName")).Clear(); - not working
driver.FindElement(By.Id("tagName")).SendKeys(tagName); - not working
Is there some way I can access this element on IE?
Thanks,
J.
We frequently test against IE8 and encounter "unique" Selenium issues.
Sometimes we use ExecuteScript to bypass Selenium's finicky selectors, and use jQuery to return the element or to manipulate it directly:
// Get an element
IWebElement element = (IWebElement) driver.ExecuteScript("return $('#tagName')[0]");
// Clear the value of a field
driver.ExecuteScript("$('input[name=\'tagName\']').val('');");
The best solution was the builder object of Selenium. I used this to force the automation to select the textbox and enter test like so:
IWebElement searchField = Global.driver.FindElement(by);
builder.Click(searchField).SendKeys(searchField, textToEnter).Perform();
This worked!
J.
WebElement searchField = Global.driver.FindElement(by);
builder.Click(searchField).SendKeys(searchField, textToEnter).Perform();
****its working but sending wrong text to the field.
For ex: i have to send "11-12-2015" and it is sending "28-12-2015".
Any Clue what's happening when performing inserting action.****
I am writing integration tests in c# and when I use the click() method on certain elements inside a dialog box nothing happens and I get no errors. It will click some of the elements inside the dialog but not others. I thought if it wasn't selecting them properly then it would throw and exception but it runs smooth and says test passed even though it never actually clicked the button. The dialog box is an iframe.
I thought maybe it was trying to click a button that wasn't display yet or enabled so I added this before the click() call:
_driver.SwitchTo().Frame(_frameElement);
_wait.Until(d =>
{
var shippingInfoButton = d.FindElement(By.CssSelector("input[title ='Info']"));
return shippingInfoButton.Displayed && shippingInfoButton.Enabled;
});
var infoButton = _driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("input[title ='Info']"));
ScrollToElement(infoButton);
infoButton.Click();
again this runs with no thrown exceptions so I'm assuming it has found the element and it is both displayed and enabled.
Let me know if you need any more info. Thanks
I can't explain why the selenium driver .click() method won't fire on some elements in the page but not others, but I did find a solution.
Using IJavaScriptExecutor you can click the element using javascript instead and in my case it worked.
Here is the code to run the IJavaScriptExecutor and below is my whole method.
//IJavaScriptExecutor
IJavaScriptExecutor js = _driver as IJavaScriptExecutor;
js.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].click();", infoButton);
//my whole method for clicking the button and returning the page object
public ShippingMethodDetailsPageObject SelectShippingMethodInfo()
{
_driver.SwitchTo().Frame(_frameElement);
_wait.Until(d =>
{
var shippingInfoButton = d.FindElement(By.CssSelector("input[title='Info']"));
return shippingInfoButton.Displayed && shippingInfoButton.Enabled;
});
var infoButton = _driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector("input[title ='Info']"));
IJavaScriptExecutor js = _driver as IJavaScriptExecutor;
js.ExecuteScript("arguments[0].click();", infoButton);
_driver.SwitchTo().DefaultContent();
return new ShippingMethodDetailsPageObject(_driver, false);
}
I ran into a similar problem. If it's the same problem there's a fault in the ChromeDriver it can't click certain elements because of surrounding divs etc. Bit lame really.
A simple fix is to send the Enter key e.g. element.SendKeys(Keys.Enter). Seems to work across all browsers.
I have some tests that works in Firefox all the times, and in Chrome it drove me mad, because sometimes it passed successfully, and sometimes the ".click" didn't work and it would fail the test.
Took a long time to notice it, but the reason was: I used to sometimes minimize the browser to 80% to be able to see the browser along side my IDE. it appears that the ".click" doesn't work when I did it.
At least for me this was the issue