I'm using Selenium with Robot Framework to write my GUI tests. One of the tests is verifying if, when the user clicks on the Close window/tab button (outside of the webpage), it triggers the alert box before exiting.
I've tried the keywords "Close window" and "Close browser", but both of them ignore the event and close the window. I also tried to close the window with javacript window.close();, but it doesn't work for windows that aren't opened with window.open(); - it is a security measure. I'm using Selenium Grid with different browsers on Linux and Windows, but everytime is failing. Is there a possibility to check this with selenium or I have to use other tools like AutoIT that automate any GUI, not only the browser?
After five days of searching for a solution, I didn't find one that tries to close the page/tab/window and triggers that alert confirmation box.
Instead, I found a workaround that is similar to that and also triggers the necessary alert which is captured by Selenium: click on a link, reopen the same page or go to another one. Like this:
Go To https://stackoverflow.com/
Handle Alert action=DISMISS
I put here action=DISMISS to simply continue with my test on the same page, but if there is need you can change it to something else.
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When starting a website, I find it difficult to click Block button on Microphone popup because I can't query this popup (and also with block btn)
How can I handle this problem with Webdriver.io in browser?
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One option is to use chrome command line switches. You can find the list here.
The one you are looking for is use-fake-device-for-media-stream. You can set this in your config file so that every time the chrome is launched, it won't show this popup since it is already set to a fake device.
So I'm writing tests for a web page, and one of the tests include clicking a link, which opens a new window, do some assertions in that window, and jump back.
To open links I'm using the technique described here.
The weird thing is, when I go through the steps manually (just press all of them one after another) it works fine. But when I try to run the whole test, it either does nothing (no windows open) or it clicks another button (and not the link).
What can be the reason for it working when i do the steps manually, and not when Selenium IDE runs them for me?
To open link, you can use
click | link=link name
selectWindow | windowname
And then perform operation on that window
js gets downloaded to browser cache.
js contains functionA that constructs the url and calls the window.Open to open the url.
i call the functionA to open the window.
selenium doesnt detect the window at all. i did getAllWindowTitles and getAllWindowNames, etc. But do not see window at all.
by the way the reason i had to this is because when i click on button that has an onclick='calltofunction()', the window is not detected either.
it would be better actually if i can force selenium to see the open window after i click the button.
Thanks!
The straight forward answer that I can think of right now is to move on to Selenium 2.31.0, which has an updated support for WebDriver, and can be used in parallel to Selenium.
Then, it is easy to do ALT+TAB (for Windows, or CTRL+TAB for tabs), and WebDriver picks up the new tab/window and reads off of it.
the biggest issue i'm having is that when i click on a link, i can see the confirmation dialog popup. from this site it says:
NOTE: under Selenium, JavaScript confirmations will NOT pop up a visible dialog.
NOTE: Selenium does NOT support JavaScript confirmations that are generated in a page's onload() event handler. In this case a visible dialog WILL be generated and Selenium will hang until you manually click OK.
any idea why i'm seeing a popup when i shouldn't be, or how i can click the 'Ok' on it?
edit: when i record the test using the selenium IDE and run it, it handles confirmation boxes fine. when i exported that test case to PHP, it doesn't work. this is without modifying the code -- using purely what was provided by the IDE.
Try to call
chooseOkOnNextConfirmation() function
From http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/0.8.0/reference.html
I'm writing some automated tests in C# and a JavaScript error is thrown when I try to click on a button that will submit changes made to a web form. The error I am recieving is:
An error has occured in the script on this page
Line: 2004
Char: 9
Error: Permission denied
Code: 0
URL: file:///C:/DOCUME~1/nkinney/LOCALS~1/Temp/customProfileDir6c0c7d7226cc463fbb1a7f6253c4df62/core/scripts/selenium-browserbot.js
Once the test is finished, the error will still be displayed if I manually click on the button while selenium is running.
The line in selenium to select this button is:
selenium.Click("//input[contains(#id, 'SubmitBtn')]");
I've also tried submit.
A pop-up should be displayed asking the user to confirm they want to make the changes. This error is thrown before the pop-up is displayed and after Selenium 'clicks' on the button.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
After further investigation, I found that Selenium is unable to work with custom modal dialog boxes. That said, I don't think I will be able to use Selenium to automate UI testing in our current release. Thanks to anyone who looked at this post.
From the Selenium FAQ
I can't interact with a popup dialog. My test stops in its tracks!
You can, but only if the dialog is an alert or confirmation dialog.
Other special dialogs can't be dismissed by javascript, and thus
currently cannot be interacted with. These include the "Save File",
"Remember this Password" (Firefox), and modal (IE) dialogs. When they
appear, Selenium can only wring its hands in despair.
To solve this issue, you may use a workaround (if one exists);
otherwise you may have to exclude the test from your automated corpus.
For the "Save File" dialog in Firefox, a custom template may be
specified when running via the RC that will always cause the file to
be downloaded to a specified location, without querying the user (see
http://forums.openqa.org/thread.jspa?messageID=31350). The "Remember
this Password" dialog should not appear again after you've chosen to
remember it. Currently there is not much that can be done about IE
modal dialogs.
Do you have the option of seeing if the test runs in another browser (Firefox, Chrome)?
A very similar answer is also here: How do I test modal dialogs with Selenium?