My scenario which produces the question goes something like below:
I enter a webpage via normal means, next I press on a button, to start a HTML5 application on this webpage, this application is inside an iFrame. On application start I'm being prompted to either turn the sound on or off. At this point there are two possible outcomes:
1. When I answer this prompt manually, new buttons appear in the application window, as expected.
2. When I answer this prompt through automation via Appium, new buttons do not appear.
Now to the question:
To answer the prompt I use the click() method from Selenium. Is it possible that this click() is not considered to be executed by a human and therefore doesn't trigger necessary things? And since I don't have access to the source of the application can I force the Selenium click() to look exactly like a human click?
Here is the code I use to execute the mentioned click:
//Application loading up, hence the sleep
Thread.sleep(5000);
AppiumTestBase.getDriver().switchTo().frame("e_iframe");
Thread.sleep(5000);
WebElement soundOff = AppiumTestBase.getDriver().findElement(By.id("soundOff"));
AppiumTestBase.getStandardWaitTime().until(elementToBeClickable(soundOff));
soundOff.click();
The program is able to find and switch in to the iFrame, there are no cross-origin issues either. The AppiumTestBase is just there for initializing the driver, setup capabilities etc. I also tried clicking the element via Actions and JavaScript, but there was no change in behavior.
In C# a workaround I've found to actually take control of the mouse and move it/click with it is to use "Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITesting" for the Keyboard/Mouse libraries. From there, you can tell it "Mouse.Click(new Point(X, Y));"and it will move your mouse to that location and click.
Sample Code:
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITesting;
var soundOff = AppiumTestBase.getDriver().findElement(By.id("soundOff"));
Mouse.Click(new Point(soundOff.Bounds.X, soundOff.Bounds.Y));
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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.
Hello: I am using Selenium/Java to grab a PDF from a website. The website does not generate them in advance, but only after I clink on a link. When I do, the web server goes away for a few minutes, and then comes back with the content.
I'm using Firefox, and its built-in PDF viewer. When I click on the download link from the main browser window, it opens another window to receive the PDF content. In a few minutes the child window is filled with the PDF content, and all I need to do is click a download button on the Firefox toolbar, and then press a Save button on the confimration dialog. I have done both of these things, successfully, sometimes.
My problem, sometimes occurs when I execute the code to click on the child window's download button...
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("download"));
element.click();
Sometimes, it just doesn't work. The statement:
driver.findElement(By.id("download"))
...never throws an exception, so it appears to always be successful. Yet, the subsequent element.click() will often not produce the expected results.
I've thrown about 100 darts at this problem, but I can't seem to find one that produces consistent results. I've tried introducing delays, calling findElement several times, trying to use the driver on the child window in ways to confirm its connection to that window (all with positive return values), but nothing seems to help make element.click() on the darn download link successfull.
I have found Selenium to be a rock-solid solution, especially when working through the primary window...it never misses a beat, and I'm really quite impressed about that behavior. This is my first Selenium project, and I hoping someone that has used it a bit more, might have a suggestion for this particular problem.
It's hard to answer this question without additional information about how the child window is populated. If the child window is using javascript to add the button to the page and define its behavior (which is likely), then the element could be actually present on the page when you look for it (i.e. no error will be thrown), but it might not be active yet or prepared to be clicked.
It might be a good idea to look at the element definition in the source for the child page to get a better idea of how the button is coded. If you have access to the web developers who designed/implemented the button even better. If you can wait to perform the click action until the button is in the desired state, this should solve the problem.
Additionally if the page is coded using a dynamic framework like Angular, you might be better off using Protractor for testing, which is based off of Selenium, but which is aware of updates in the view as they are occurring.
I am using the Selenium IDE extension for testing webpages in FireFox and I was able to find out how to perform almost every command that I need to automate testing for my webpage.
Unfortunately I was not able to find out how to do this through the list of commands that you can manually enter into the queue of Selenium IDE.
I was wondering if anyone knew how to do this in the Firefox extension. Thanks!
You can use dragAndDropToObject command which locates the target element and drags it to the centre of the destination element.
dragAndDropToObject
target: locator of the element to drag
value: locator of the destination element
There is also a dragAndDrop command which drags the element by specified amount of pixels and drop it.
For one thing, you might want to use Selenium Builder instead of Selenium IDE. Also, there are some things that Builder or IDE cannot record, such as iFrame interactions, certain AJAX actions, and also drag and drops. For those, you need to code them by hand afterwards and get them working.
I am automating using selenium 2.0, my application launches the login page by default in a new window, hence my application has by default two windows. These two windows will remain open always. In this case I could switch between the windows without any problem. The below code is executed without any errors.
for(String winHandle : driver.getWindowHandles()){
driver.switchTo().window(winHandle);
}
The problem starts while clicking the menu options a pop up window launches to search the records. Here, I need to switch between these three windows. I tried the below piece of code. It returns only the first two window handles.
Set availableWindows = driver.getWindowHandles();
This popup window is coded in such a way that, "In a .jsp file it is parameterised as window.open()".
Please let me know, if some one could help me on this?
If you're only seeing 2 window in getWindowHandles(), then the popup is probably a iframe. In this event, use driver.switchTo().frame() to switch focus to that frame instead of looking for an entirely new window.
Here's the documentation on the switch method: http://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/WebDriver.html#switchTo()
One probable solution is to use JavascriptExecutor.executeScript() method to run a javascript code and handle the pop up window without switching into pop up window.
For example, from parent window of pop up window, run a javascript code which is something like this.
JavascriptExecutor exec = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;exec.executeScript("var popup = <<popupopener function>>; //operate on popup object to manipulate the markup of pop up 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.