My automated tests get hung up on the .get(url) command randomly. I run several test suites everyday against 60+ different urls (each suite) and a handful will fail to get the url after initializing the browser. The browser url will simply read:
data:;
Now if I start these tests from the command line and this happens, eventually the test will attempt to click a button that doesn't exist and the test will fail, the browser will close, and the tests will continue as normal. This is acceptable to me.
However, if I start the tests from a cronjob, the test will get hung up forever and stop executing - no more logs, no more tests, no more cpu usage. This means that I cannot run the tests automatically which is an issue for me.
I've already attempted setting up 'retries' and starting the tests from a python script rather than bash script, which did not solve the issue.
Setup:
- Selenium 3.0.2
- Google Chrome 54
- Python 3.6
- Chromedriver 2.29 (and cannot switch to Firefox or any other browser)
- Kick off tests from bash script
- Run tests inside python's Unit Test and get url in setup
Here is an example test setup:
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome()
self.driver.get(URL)
Thanks for your help. I've navigated every webpage on the internet dealing with this issue and found no satisfactory conclusion.
