Testing the popup with Selenium IDE [closed]

Question

Getting below error :

Window does not exist. If this looks like a Selenium bug, make sure to read http://seleniumhq.org/docs/02_selenium_ide.html#alerts-popups-and-multiple-windows for potential workarounds.

It's like when I click on the lookup icon a new window opens and when I select some value there and the page redirects of the active page.

This scenario I'm not able to achieve through IDE automation.

Answer 1

you can use Java AWT Robot class to handle the scenario. using this class you can perform mouse actions on basis of screen coordinates or you can use AutoIT to automate this process for handling windows popup which cannot be done by selenium itself because it works only on web elements.

Answer 2

There are limitations as to what can be replayed through Selenium IDE. It is not possible with IDE because the popup is not a html object and will not have any locator. It is an ActiveX object. I would suggest you try Selenium Webdriver.

Don't bother building tests using Selenium IDE, even though the Selenese script recorded by Selenium IDE can be converted to a webdriver script, you will loose chance of building modular tests if you do so. If application changes in future, you will have to modify all your tests independently.

Your best bet is to use Selenium Webdriver with C#(or Java) and also use some test framework like NUnit(or JUnit), so that non developers can run the tests using NUnit GUI using simple interface, that is the best approach I found so far. Following code is an example of how you can do it with selenium webdriver.

if(driver.switchTo().alert() != null) {
  Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert();
  alert.accept(); // alternatively alert.dismiss();
} 

Answer 3

On clicking a link on the active page, a new tab gets opened.Is this the scenario you are looking for. Then, here is your answer. Firefox usually prevents opening new windows. So you should change Firefox settings to open popups. Refer the link http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pop-blocker-settings-exceptions-troubleshooting#w_pop-up-blocker-settings. Then use selectpopup and waitforpopup commands. Do the actions whatever you want on the newly opened tab. Once done, use close command-this will close the new tab. Use Selectwindow command to return back to the original window. Sample code.

<tr>
    <td>click</td>
    <td>css=a.edit-url-link</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>waitForPopUp</td>
    <td></td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>selectPopUp</td>
    <td></td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>waitForElementPresent</td>
    <td>css=b</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>click</td>
    <td>css=b</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>verifyElementPresent</td>
    <td>//div[4]/ul/li/div/b</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>click</td>
    <td>//div[4]/ul/li/div/b</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>waitForElementPresent</td>
    <td>css=td.datepickerSelected &gt; a</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>click</td>
    <td>css=td.datepickerSelected &gt; a</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>waitForElementPresent</td>
    <td>//div[4]/ul/li[2]/a</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>click</td>
    <td>//div[4]/ul/li[2]/a</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>type</td>
    <td>id=first_name</td>
    <td>test</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>type</td>
    <td>id=phone_num</td>
    <td>325235</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>click</td>
    <td>id=customer_details</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>click</td>
    <td>css=span.global_btn2_rt</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>close</td>
    <td></td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>selectWindow</td>
    <td>null</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>clickAndWait</td>
    <td>link=Sign Out See you soon!</td>
    <td></td>

Hope this helps.