I started using WebdriverIO and noticed that the browser object it provides has a ton of methods, so I would like to play with it without having to run things from CLI.
Is it even possible to do something like open the page I want to run tests against on my browser and somehow use that object from the browsers console to see the results of the methods?
Thank you.
If you'd like to run JavaScript from within the browser, take a look at the 'execute' command.
There's also a full page of docs on the browser object for reference.
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I am trying to scrape a website, but it is not loading in selenium. When I browse that website in my "real" chrome browser, everything works fine. Is there any way I can use my real browser with python to automate stuff, instead of using selenium??
Thanks
Using selenium we can automate real browsers.
If in case the website is not loading via selenium, you can check if adding desired capabilities helps.
Here we can set proxy, disable extensions etc. There are many options available.
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/capabilities
Also if you can share what kind of error is displayed that would be helpful.
I use a custom browser provider - saucelabs - I'd like my custom reporter to know in which remote browser it ran so I can properly correlate the saucelabs video with a failed test.
This obviously is only an issue with concurrency > 1 :)
If a test fails which remote browser was it run in???
thanks!!
Mark
The reportTestDone method of a reporter plugin is called after a test is done in all browsers. If testRunInfo.errs array is empty, it means that the test passed in all browsers. If it is non-empty, every item has a userAgent property, telling in which browser the error occurred.
So, if you need a list of browsers in which the test fails, you could use something like this: _.chain(testRunInfo.errs).map('userAgent').uniq().value().
I didn't find this in the official documentation, though.
I'm not sure if there is a term for what I'm trying to do. I currently have a test suite using codeception for a php application. What I would like to do is be able to either of the following:
watch the browser automation in an actual browser
take over the browser at a specific point ( Sort of like a hand over from the script to the browser to allow me to continue to run a session )
Is this possible? If so what is it called in the selenium documentation
a) Selenium runs the actual browser and you can see what it is doing unless you configured Selenium to run some headless browser (but I don't know anything about headless browsers supported by Selenium);
b) Use Codeception's pauseExecution method to stop execution at specific point.
Documentation:
Pauses test execution in debug mode. To proceed test press “ENTER” in
console.
This method is useful while writing tests, since it allows you to
inspect the current page in the middle of a test case.
I want to write an acceptance test for my browser extension. I've tried to initiate an extension via selenium but I can't seem to access a content of popup. Can someone suggest how can I do it with selenium or any other way to write UI/acceptance tests for browser extensions? Thanks.
How can I access browser extension's popup using selenium?
It's not possible. Selenium supports interaction with web view only.
What you can do with Selenium and extension for sure is automatic installation: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16512012/2517622
You may try to use desktop automation tools (e.g. White on Windows platform) for clicking on extension popup but it's not that easy and it's not platform independent as Selenium.
Here is the workaround we came up. Unless someone posts here the "right" solution I will consider this as the best approach.
So eventually, our extension is an iframe which just loads a page content from our website + does some other neat stuff. We simply open that url in a new tab and do regular selenium tests.
Side not: we have considered to write a little javascript wrapper to be able to access ext via main window through javascript. E.g. there is some js in ext that listens to main window's events and perform certain actions. Tho, it is too much efforts and doesn't really sound like a proper acceptance test so we discarded this approach.
I want to test a Ajax based web application. I want to write the test scripts in Java and simulate the web browser.
Simulation of a web browser is very important since Iam using very advanced Ajax library like jQuery in the web Application.
Any ideas on how I should proceed?
I think you might want to give Selenium a look.
Kindness,
Dan
Doing "simulation" of a browser will probably not work that well if your application relies on Javascript a lot : there are some crawlers that you can use to test your application, but they don't like JS that much.
The best solution in your case might be to use a real browser to do your testing.
The Selenium tool-suite is quite nice for that : it allows your testing programm to pilot a browser (a real one : firefox, internet explorer, ...) ; which mean having you JS code executed exactly the same way that it would be with a "real" user.
For instance, you can have your testing programm tell a browser to open a page, click on a link, check some content in the page, ... And if there was some JS event plugged onto the link, it will have been executed : there will have been a real "click" on the link.
Using a tool like selenium has some drawbacks, though ; some of them are :
you need a machine with a graphic environnement, to launch the browsers (command line is not enough)
tests with selenium take time : browsing and using the application means loading all the CSS/JS/Images/ads/whatever, for each page ; like in a real browser -- because you are using a real browser
But these tests are quite nice, and usefull to test the application as a whole -- ie, more "functionnal tests" than "unit-test".