Mouse hover action to browser window close button

Question

I have a test scenario where the web application checks for the user's leave intent i.e., mouse hovering from the page to the browser close and then a frame gets triggered. Is there any way to do it?

Edit: So the dev implementation is that when the user is moving to the top of the document frame gets triggered and it is not browser close but moving to corner of the document.

Answer 1

The browser close button cannot be hovered with WebDriver. You could try to close the current window with driver.close() and see if the close is blocked and the message is shown.

• Move mouse top top of page: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12974488/selenium-webdriver-move-mouse-to-point
• You could try to automate non browser page actions with SikuliX or AutoIt. Still I would try to not take this path, as it makes tests harder to setup, harder run (also on test servers), more complex to understand.

I would sit with the developers and see how you can make this testable as simple as possible. For example by implementing window.onbeforeunload to prevent the window from closing without confirmation, which is testable by using driver.close().

Answer 2

I did it using Sikuli:

//imports
import org.sikuli.script.FindFailed;
import org.sikuli.script.Pattern;
import org.sikuli.script.Screen;

//Code Snippets
Screen s = new Screen();
Pattern browserCloseButton = new Pattern(filepath + "CloseButton.PNG");

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get(<url>);

s.hover(browserCloseButton);

For more reference read up:
https://www.guru99.com/sikuli-tutorial.html
http://doc.sikuli.org/region.html

Answer 3

Ok, so apparently what you need to do is capture some WebElement on top of the page and then move mouse by offset using Actions class. Using Java it would be something like this:

    WebElement topElement = driver.findElement(By.SOME_SELECTOR);
    Actions action=new Actions(driver);
    action.moveToElement(topElement).moveByOffset(0, -100).perform();

It does not have to be "-100" just enough to move outside the viewport and trigger the desired frame.