Selenium RC + Hudson - test runs locally but times out when run with Hudson

Question

I am facing a strange issue with Selenium RC. I have a test which runs perfectly fine when I run my selenium server manually on the default port. The test passes in seconds. However since my tests are to run on a remote machine under hudson, I run my selenium server in background as a windows service via a utility called as nssm.

When I run the same test via my server running in background, it fails with timeout. The test should not take much time to run. Here is the test I wrote

_selenium.Click("http://www.myurl.com/mypage.aspx");
_selenium.Type("Locator", "Value");
_selenium.Click("SaveLink");
_selenium.WaitForPageToLoad("30000");

Answer 1

Try increasing pageLoad, that is -

 _selenium.WaitForPageToLoad("60000");

b/w I suggest you to not hard code wait period and read it from a method, so you could modify it in one place and have it reflected in all instances.

Answer 2

The issue is actually resolved. When running my test via server by opening the normal browser window, one of my required select drop-down was populated automatically. Where-as when I was trying to run my test via server running in background, the drop-down was not taking default value. I manually set the drop-down value and my tests were passing.

Answer 3

@Ashish - I have gone through issue. Sometimes,

selenium.WaitForPageToLoad("30000");

failed. Work around I'm sharing which really works for me

Working Solution :

static void waitForPageLoad(WebDriver wdriver) {
    WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(wdriver, 60);

    Predicate<WebDriver> pageLoaded = new Predicate<WebDriver>() {

        @Override
        public boolean apply(WebDriver input) {
            return ((JavascriptExecutor) input).executeScript("return document.readyState").equals("complete");
        }

    };
    wait.until(pageLoaded);
}

Try It !