How to Debug Selenium WebDriver Actions?

Question

I am using Selenium WebDriver and run into a issue.

In the UI, elements are seen by the WebDriver but couldn't perform any actions such as click, type, select etc. Elements are findby the selenium and returned as instance of webelement. I can get, getText(),isEnabled() etc, but wont perform any actions. There is no exceptions, it just hangs.

I dont understand this behavior. If it seen by the WebDriver, it should click. I have tried using actions. That too shows the same behavior.

How to debug this issue? Any ideas?

Sample code,

driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(Integer.parseInt(Timeout), TimeUnit.SECONDS);
element=driver.findElement(By.id("test"));
element.clear();
element.sendKeys("test");

This works in other websites. Not in the one I'm testing. So I don't know, is there issue in WebDriver or in AUT.

EDIT: After moving to Selenium 2.13.0, above issues resolved. But I still want to know how to debug in case of error.

Answer 1

Only way to debug the code is to write wrapper around WebDriverEventListener and listen to the logs. Other wise, it is not possible.