I work with VINs once I receive them I go to three websites input them in a cell click search, and save the return results as PDFs I want to write a program to do this for me. NEW TO CODING and looking to get pointed in the right direction.
You can do it in many ways.
You tagged Selenium only but you can use Selenium with many programming languages (Python, C#, Java...).
Since Python is the simplest one I'll talk about it.
So, first of all you need to study Python.
You can find many guides and tutorials online. The official Python's site is a good one.
After that you need to study Selenium:
this is the documentation. Here you can find almost everything you need to know.
To show you some sample code, for example, this is how you open Firefox and navigate to stackoverflow, wait until the search bar is loaded, locate it, write "test text" in it and press enter to search using Selenium with Python:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://stackoverflow.com/")
inputbar = WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, "//input[#name='q']"))).send_keys("test text")
driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "body").send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
It's pretty straightforward. In this sample code I showed you almost everything is needed to be use to achieve what you want. You just need to study the documentations, that's it :D
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I'm trying to figure out how to hide the border (including the address bar, tabs, title bar... everything that isn't the browser viewport) of my Firefox instance instantiated by Selenium.
If there's some way to have it use a userChrome.css, that would be straightforward enough. I've tried loading a profile folder that included a userChrome.css using this answer as a guide, but it seemed to ignore the styles. I've also looked through Firefox's about:config to see if there's some preference that would hide the frame of the window, but I haven't found anything yet.
Any solution that allows me to hide all or some of these elements when creating the instance with Selenium would be helpful. I know it's silly, but that's how it goes sometimes, you know?
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I don't think the title bar needs to be hidden. But everything else should be hidden.
-another edit to clarify a few things-
I mentioned kiosk mode in the comments as an example of the sort of thing I'm going for. Kiosk mode isn't exactly what I'm looking for, though. The windows aren't meant to be fullscreen, but they should still lack the elements of a common browser window. Think of it as like an Electron app. Out of the box, Electron lacks an address bar, tabs, etc. That's basically what we have for our app, but it's with regular-old Firefox. Again, whether these elements are displayed or not doesn't typically impact the test, but we want them hidden anyway.
Finally, I a friend of mine tried achieving this goal using a userChrome.css wrapped in a Firefox profile and was able to get Selenium to use the userChrome. So perhaps I need to figure out what I'm doing wrong. The biggest difference between how he did it and how I'm doing it is I must use a remote web driver for testing. But even still, it should be able to load the userChrome.css file. I'll try to update this question with more details as I fiddle with it some more.
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I think the reason userChrome isn't working when specifying a profile is because of the version(s) of Selenium/Geckodriver/Firefox being used.
The geckodriver version I started with was 0.15. 0.17 behaved exactly the same. 0.18 didn't respect the profile I passed along to it at all and instead had Firefox open the profile selection window (not very useful, but I was able to at least select the correct profile and see the userChrome.css get applied). 0.24 is no different.
Firefox is 52.9.0. Not much I can do about that.
We're using selenium (standalone) server 3.8.1. Switching out for 3.141.59 Didn't change anything.
Unless there's a version combination that will work with Firefox 52, I think the only thing I can do is wait until there's an update.
At last I have figured it out. In order to get Selenium to use my custom profile, I needed to do the following:
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(new File(path_to_profile));
FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions().setProfile(profile);
RemoteWebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(options.toCapabilities());
driver.get(url_of_webpage);
Thanks to avinesh09 on Github for the info I needed to solve the problem. It's so simple, but this has to be the only way that I neglected to try to load the profile.
If fullscreen (kiosk) mode is what you ask for (as then all you see is the viewport) it is as simple as:
driver.manage().window().fullscreen();
It is the same user experience as pressing "F11" in your browser.
I've been doing a lot of selenium practices lately. However, I haven't been able to create an automation script that would allow me to create a new gist on github. To those of you who are familiar with gist on github, on https://gist.github.com/, there is a big Text Area that would allow the user to type in the code. I've tried using xpath to no avail. I've also made sure that I use the latest version of geckodriver and .jar. Using cssselector also didn't work. From what I've discovered, there are tons of divs on that Text Area. To make things short and simple, how do I create an automation script for that big text area?
screenshot of https://gist.github.com/
it use CodeMirror text editor, try executeScript with the code below
document.querySelector('.CodeMirror').CodeMirror.setValue('Hello World!')
I found articles about opening browser extension as a page - but my extension inject JS to the current page - and extension can not inject code to chrome* pages. My only choice is SikuliX? Also with SikuliX I can test the badge of my button. I think that with SikuliX I simulate real user behaviour - such tests about UI interactions looks like more robust for me. Also nice to test CSS correctness.
I tried to setup a hotkey for my extension:
But
driver.find_element_by_tag_name('body').send_keys(Keys.CONTROL + 'I') (Python) or driver.findElement(By.tagName("body")).sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL + "I") (Java)
do nothing, but I can press Ctrl+I and I see popup-UI opened.
UPDATE: I tried to use pyautogui for mouse clicking - but even with opened extension popup UI driver.window_handles does not include it :(
You can configure webdriver to load your extension in to the browser while launching as well. Once your extension in loaded , it can inject required code that i am assuming makes some changes to html such as adding / removing some html elements or applying some styles which can be then tested using Selenium. You can also execute javascript using selenium.
Sikuli framework is based on image recognition and then simulating user interactions on it using mouse and keyboard . Your test cases might break under these scenarios :
Change in resolution which may even result in layout changes
Change in theme of the application resulting in color changes of ui-elements
It will require focus ,etc.
Currently, I test my extension by comparing expected and actual screenshots, using Selenium web driver, pyautogui (for interactions with extension) and opencv2 (for computer vision), see more at https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2014/09/15/python-compare-two-images/
I know this is and oldie, and I apologize for that. But I still haven't found a solution to this.
I have recently tried to test my OpenLayers-based app with Selenium. But when I click on the map, it doesn't detect the click in Selenium. I have searched all over the Internet. Some people say it is a bug from Selenium, other claim to have found a workaround.
I have tried all these solutions and I am getting no results. The clicks still don't work.
http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Testing-with-selenium-IDE-td5015680.html
Selenium IDE testing on maps(Open Layers)
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openlayers.user/18125
Could you please explain it better? Or maybe show an example?
Thanks
PS: I am new to Selenium, so it might be a bit more difficult for me to understand it.
I don't know if this is the best solution, but meanwhile I have started using Selenium WebDriver, more specifically, the Java version.
I have watched this video about automated tests and it helped a lot for getting on the right track. The video shows some examples of the use of Selenium WebDriver (the C# version, but it is similar to the Java version).
I have installed the ChromeDriver but you can also do it fully in Firefox.
I use JUnit for the tests.
In Selenium IDE, you "record" the tests and then you replay them.
Here, in Selenium WebDriver, you fully write the tests, without recording anything.
For example, you write code for the following steps:
1) Open the web page of my OpenLayers (or other) app.
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("http://localhost/myOpenLayersApp/index.php");
2) Click on the button that opens page X
driver.findElement(By.id("Button-Go-to-page-X")).click();
3) Checks if you have indeed navigated to page X
boolean check = driver.findElement(By.id("Header-X"))
.getText()
.equals("This is page X.");
Assert.assertTrue(check);
This was a very simple example of how to use Selenium WebDriver. At least, this is how I use it.
If you have more questions, please feel free to ask. :)
Note: Watch the video if you are new to this. It is a very good lesson about automated testing.
I'm having a little trouble nailing down what's causing a particular issue. I'm fairly new to automation testing and I'm having a strange problem. The website I'm testing has an auto suggest function which works absolutely fine when checking manually. The problem is when loading a browser using the Selenium webdriver (I've tried firefox, chrome and IE drivers) that the auto suggest is simply not loading.
It's like the part of the page to do with that and a date/time mini popup aren't loading at all so none of them work when running scripts. Has anyone else had this and resolved it? or is it an issue with the web page itself?
Thanks
You may need to fire an event which by default webdriver is not envoking with sendKeys.
Asking you developer how it works in their code, and then extend selenium to replicate this behaviour.
Also, have you tried do sendKeys one character at a time with a small sleep in-between