WebDriver is a tool for writing automated tests of websites. It aims to mimic the behavior of a real user, and as such interacts with the HTML of the application. Rather than running as a JavaScript application within the browser (with the limitations this brings, such as the "same origin" ...
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Are Selenium functional tests reliable enough to be worthwhile?
I'm finding that regardless of how solid my tests scripts are, I still have tests that fail (falsely), even though they worked just fine before. I'm not talking about if markup changes (although that ...
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Page Objects design issues
I have started using the Selenium 2 /Webdriver web automation framework a couple of weeks ago and I'm generally pleased, but I find myself unsure about how to best design my Page Objects. The ...
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How do I download a file using Selenium's WebDriver?
Basically I want to at least check that a download-able file exists / download link works, and preferably get stuff like the file size too.
Here's an example:
link = ...
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Is there a captureNetworkTraffic implementation in Selenium 2 via webdriver?
If yes, how is it called, or where can I find more info about it? (I'm not talking about using WebDriverBackend.)
If not, what alternatives are there?
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Problem with IE9 security certificate when accessing HTTPS URLs using Selenium 2 WebDriver
I have some Selenium 2 WebDriver test cases for Firefox and Internet Explorer 9. When I access HTTPS URLs on IE9 (Windows 7 64bit) I get:
There is a problem with this website's security ...
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Why should I move to Selenium 2 from Selenium 1?
What are the real benefits of using Selenium 2 instead of Selenium 1? I've read several posts related to new version but didn't get what are the advantages of Selenium 2.
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How do I start the Internet Explorer WebDriver for Selenium in Python?
I had a devil of a time figuring this out. It wasn't documented on the web anywhere I could find. I ended up reading the webdriver init.py to find out.
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What is the correct way to select an <option> using Selenium's Python WebDriver
I would like to select an <option> child of a <select> using the Python WebDriver.
I have a reference to the option WebElement I wish to select and have tried select() and click() methods ...
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WebDriver: find elements by text
I know that WebDriver can locate links through their text, using find_element_by_link_text or find_element_by_partial_link_text.
Is it possible to locate any element (such as li, div, span, ...) by ...
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Is there any full Python webdriver API documentation?
I'm starting out using Selenium 2/Webdriver, been using Selenium IDE for a few weeks, to automate some tests and decided to go with Python. I've been writing some simple tests using some basic ...
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Firefox (3.6) not loading Flash when running Selenium2 tests
I've seen several mentions of an issue when running tests in Firefox: the Flash player doesn't load the SWF if the browser window doesn't have focus. This causes sporadic test failures if the system ...
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What's the best approach to asserting values with automation testing test cases from complex business logic?
Suppose you have automation tests (my example uses Selenium) to assert complex business logic for a web site. What is the best way to assert that thousands of different test cases are outputting the ...
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Running WebDriver without opening actual browser window
I've heard rumors that Selenium WebDriver can run without opening a real browser window, meaning it runs in the background. I am using the C# Client Drivers, FirefoxDriver within the automated tests, ...
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How do I handle the login modal dialog created by onLoad in a WebDriver & Java based test automation
I am working on the test automation that uses WebDriver (Selenium 2) and Java. The AUT is web-based application. A modal dialog pops up that requires user authentication before the user can access ...
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Best practices for developers to increase testability of web apps for QA?
I'm writing a document for a developer at my company who will be working on a web app. Here's the advice I have for him so far (below). Can any of you think of more that I can add? Not sure which tool ...
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Read requests and responses made by browser on naviagating a web page in C# webdriver
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I wants to read all the requests and responses made and get by the browser on navigating on a page.
For ex: If I navigate to ...
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Testing Page Layout with webdriver
Has anyone tried to test the page layout of a website using webdriver? To be specific, using webelement.getPosition() and webelement.getDimension().
Shouldn't these two methods be enough for testing ...
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How is Selenium 2.0 different from the previous version, apart from the WebDriver API ?
I am slowly but surely starting to lean towards selenium 2.0 as everyone is really making a big fuss about it. I would like to know how much different is selenium 2.0 from the previous version apart ...
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Send keys to no element in particular
The way I know of sending keys using the WebDriver Python bindings is as follows:
element.send_keys(value)
How can I send a key (specifically the Escape key) to no element in particular, just to ...
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Issue with losing focus of “hover” command when the mouse is outside of the active window
If I automate mouse actions using Selenium2/Webdriver in combination with Firefox 12, I can easily get the "mouse" to move to and hover over a context menu so the sub-menus are seen. However, if I ...
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How can I send the action “Ctrl” + “Alt” + “Double Click” to the browser
I am writing automated tests for a site at work and we have certain screens that when we send a specific set of keystrokes, a section of the page will become visible and allow` us to see information ...
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How to fix 'Access is denied' errors when trying to .quit() Chrome in Selenium WebDriver tests?
Anyone know how to fix intermittent 'Access is denied' errors when trying to .quit() Chrome in Selenium WebDriver tests? It's happening about 1 in 10 times.
Here's the traceback:
Traceback (most ...
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Getting nose test runner to execute a test against multiple browsers / configurations?
Surely someone else has run into this problem. I'm trying to figure out how to loop through Firefox, Chrome, and IE in conjunction with nose.
Right now I have:
"setup.cfg" file that specifies ...
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Using Selenium Opera Driver doesn't start my test execution
I am able to open the Opera browser using Selenium Opera driver. But I am unable to navigate to any URL using: driver.get("www.google.com");
Opera driver starts and doesn't load the given link.
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Selenium Tests run in the background when TeamCity CI is run as a Windows service
Our test suite is written in Python and makes use of the WebDriver Python bindings. We are looking into moving to TeamCity for continuous integration.
The setup I have in mind is a build triggered for ...
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OperaDriver is not navigating to desired URL
I have tried to open a URL using the OperaDriver. My issue is that I am getting browser launched but the desired page is not getting loaded. Below is the code.
@BeforeClass
public static void ...
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How to handle self-signed SSL certificate error in IE8? (Selenium Webdriver + Java)
I am literally stuck to this problem for two days now.
Scenario
The website that needs to be tested has a self-signed certificate. So Internet Explorer (8 in Windows XP) shows
"The security ...
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Is it a good idea to learn Selenium RC alongside Webdriver
I have recently started exploring Selenium. According to the experts future lies in Selenium Webdriver. But my question is being a predecessor should I also learn Selenium RC? Will it be worth ...
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Any one have experience with frameworks using webdriver in Visual Studio?
I'm using webdriver to automate our browser testing, I have some scripted tests already where I am using Visual Studio and while I don't mind other formats I'm looking for a good supportable framework ...
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manual tester wanting to get into automation
So its been a year since I have been studying python, and just recently I started picking up webdriver. It was a long journey, and I am still pretty noob, but I finally understand how to use it lol. I ...
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Downloading a file in Internet Explorer through Selenium
I have to automate a case in which I have to download an Excel file using Selenium IDE.I have done this in Firefox by using custom profile feature which automatically downloads file and saves it into ...
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Load Testing, Selenium Vs Jmeter Vs other tools
I have been using Selenium/Webdriver for functional testing in a grid setup.
We are in the process of transitioning to a Solr based search service. I already have Solrmeter for load testing the ...
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Automated tests pass every time when run individually, but when they are clumped into a test suite it's a toss up if the tests will pass
I have around 200 test classes for my web application at the moment. I use Selenium2/Webdriver and the tests are written in java, with TestNG used as my framework.
When I run each test by itself, ...
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What is the best way to handle minor intermittent automation failures during cross browser testing?
I run Web Driver (.Net version) with SpecFlow as my test driver on some fairly general Cross - Browser scenarios so I often am rerunning tests as I add new ones, or clean up old automation. On ...
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WebDriver login and click action ain't working…
I have the following problem.
I have a website where the Login is Via a Link that has the href: SubmitLogin().
I'm trying to use webdriver in the form of PageFactories.
I have this method:
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Rule of thumb for using wait()
A rule of thumb for using wait() would be before navigating to a different page. For Ex :
WebDriverWait(driver,10).until(lambda driver: driver.title.startswith("Submitted!!"))
What would be other ...
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Selenium automating ICEFaces Application - locator for dynamically generated ids
I'm trying to automate a very short sequence in a web application developped using ICEFaces. I need to click on a button which is coded as
<input type="image" title="Unterbrechen" style="padding: ...
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Drag-and-drop failing on complex jQuery UI
Using the Python bindings of Selenium Webdriver, I cannot get drag-and-drop working on a "complex" jQuery UI example with ActionChains.drag_and_drop(). (It does work on a simple example.)
My testing ...
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Can't click this checkbox using WebDriver / Selenium — ElementNotVisibleException
See attached image. The element is visible to me as a user, but I keep getting the ElementNotVisibleException error. It seems to locate the element via multiple methods, but the .click() fails. Is it ...
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Webdriver Check if Checkbox is Set and Set it if Not
I am learning Webdriver with JUnit by going through Alan Richardson's Selenium Simplified book and taking translating the exercises/tests from Selenium RC to Webdriver. So far, this has proven to be ...
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How to share my test scripts with other stakeholders?
I have written Java automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver in Eclipse.
I uploaded everything to GitHub.
Here my questions are:
How can my manager/colleague execute these scripts in his or her ...
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IE always opens with random local host and msg:"This is the initial start page for the WebDriver server
I have my WebDriver tests running parallel in IE, Chrome and firefox. When I run test in IE browser it node gets registered with the hub, and the browser opens and it gets redirected to some random ...
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Going past the Chrome security warning
I'm trying to test a page without a security certificate, which Chrome flags up. This blocks my tests. (I have to manually click "Proceed anyway". Is there a way to disable this warning?
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Locating element by link text (anchor tag innerHTML) or xpath fails in Selenium 2.0 Webdriver
I'm using Selenium 2.0 web driver. My script keeps failing whenever I try locating something in my page. It throws an exception whether I locate the element by LinkText or by XPath.
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Less “hackish” way to do fast input (faster send_keys) in WebDriver besides JavaScript execution?
elements.send_keys() works fine in most cases, but I have a particular test case where I need to input very large strings into a textbox, and send_keys() is far too slow. (The test takes 28 minutes to ...
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Need help to frame locator for webdriver script
I have a button reach_analysis_button with id="x-auto-7".
But directly using that i am not able to locate the element from webdriver.
I tried ...
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What is the best way to have a SpecFlow project run across multiple browsers?
I'm working on setting up a SpecFlow project to test a portal. Thus far I've haven't had issues writing some "hello world" features and steps. My question is as the testing project grows, what is the ...
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How can I switch to new window using webdriver?
I have clicked an image in a slide show and it generates a new window. Once the window opens I need to bring focus on new window and do some stuff. I have attached my code below, but it is not ...
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Alternative for user extensions in Selenium 2 WebDriver w/ jQuery?
I've been switching over our company's automation scripts from Selenium IDE to Selenium 2.0 WebDriver. The problem is that we have a crap load of user extension custom commands because of all the ...
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Running Selenium tests as a scheduled task
I'm trying to run a Selenium WebDriver script written in Python on a Windows 7 64-bit box as a scheduled task.
The test works pretty well when run as a batch file from the command prompt, but when ...
