Selenium - SendKeys not completing data entry before moving to next field

Question

I am trying to login to Gmail with two users. The data is exported from excel.

Sometimes my test passes, but sometimes the first user login and logout processes successfully, but the second username is not entered completely - the test jumps to the password field and enters the remaining part of the username in the password field with the password.

How do I stop this happening? Will forcing SendKeys to enter data more slowly help?

Answer 1

1. First, wait for the page to load completely (Code from this question).

   void waitForLoad(WebDriver driver) 
   {
   ExpectedCondition pageLoads = new
       ExpectedCondition() {
           public Boolean apply(WebDriver driver) {
               return (Boolean)((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return document.readyState").equals("complete");
           }
       };
   WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
   wait.until(pageLoads);
   }
   

2. Clear Username field and then type username

   username.clear();
   //verify username is equal to ""
   if(username=="")
   username.sendKeys("your username");
   //verify username is typed correctly
   

3. Clear password field and then type password

   password.clear();
   //verify username is equal to ""
   if(password=="")
   password.sendKeys("your password");
   //verify password
   

The above + using some explicit waits is just to make the script a little more stable.

Answer 2

I think there is problem of latency. So I will suggest you to try slowing your test scripts after first test run. Give enough time to the browser to logout completely and then read inputs for second test and then you pass them into the test scripts. The only thing here is you have to pass values only then when browser have successfully loaded the login page again.

Hope this helps.