I have read this (How to customize Selenium test error/fail message) question and it gave me some hope but can this be done with selenium IDE also? My boss wants to automate all tests but wants to keep it simple for non programmers to use so I cannot use WebDriver or jUnit.
I had a similar issue and came out with a surprisingly amusing answer. Selenium will write a failure only upon stepping on an error. In the current case I wanted Selenium to warn me if the 'Log In' button was absent on my page but a gotoIf wasn't going to do the job alone. Therefore I forced Selenium into an error by writing a click command that didn't exist 'TestLoginB2B failed because the login button was' and using it as my custom error line as Selenium will mention the name of a failed click command and always write them in red therefore allowing my file logging addon to spot them.
Custom error message
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When my saved project and test runs in the Selenium IDE GUI it's fine, but when I perform the same test called via the command line side runner it fails. The issue appears to be the linkText not being visible, but I don't understand why it would fail when it runs fine form the GUI.
You can see the last step (8) as passed, with reference to the linkText
I then save the project in my local folder
And run it again using the side runner command
ElementClickInterceptedError: element click intercepted: Element Corporate Project/Program/Event (CORP) is not clickable at point (798, 199). Other element would receive the click: ...
It appears that the linkText maybe covered? The weird thing it's visible to me when the selenium test is running, just before it hangs. I did try to add some wait commands, i.e. "wait for element visible". But didn't seem to help.
Maybe I didn't insert the command properly?
I feel like I must be missing something obvious. Any suggestions?
I've found similar threads on GitHub that indicate differences in the way the IDE core and web driver work. One user indicates it actually IDE that's clicking through an overlay. I've managed to overcome my issues using simple pause commands, unsure why the wait commands didn't work for me.
I recently started using robotframework with the Selenium2Library. I haven't tested using Selenium before, but I know it is possible to record tests using Selenium. In RobotFramework, it says, "it is not possible". I mean even for a simple login test, I need to write the test, specifying the id of username, password and submit button.
However, is there any way by which these tests can be recorded using robotframework? such as clicking on a text box, entering a string and then clicking on submit button etc., and automatically generate the test case source code instead of having me to write the test cases. Is this possible with robotframework or any external library that it supports?
robotframework wasn't designed to be a record-and-play tool, and has nothing built-in to support that.
There was someone who wrote a selenium IDE plugin that would generate robot keywords, but that was years ago. The github repository is here: https://github.com/denschu/selenium-ide-format-robotframework
The code hasn't been touched since 2012, so I doubt it's of much use.
Using this Firefox add-on, FireRobot we can generate most of the code and also using this you can select the elements on the screen and get related code suggestions on right click like
Wait Until Element Is Visible
Click Element
and all operations to perform on the selected element.
I am executing a simple recorded script in Selenium , in which i just search a page in Google and then click it , but when Run that recorded script it is giving me the "Error [error] Element link not found".
And following is the Script which i am running,any help would be very useful.
New Test
New Test
open
/
type
q
Bill Gates
click
link=Bill Gates: Chairman
click
link=Bill Gates: Chairman
I got the same error message while going through the tutorials online. I found out that the scripts were running too fast for FF to load the links. If you slow down the playback by moving the green button on the Fast-Slow bar to somewhere in the middle the scripts run without any errors.
I guess I know the answer. It might be bcz of any javascript error(you can see that on the status bar at the
Right corner(IE)) or that link element might not be placed correctly in the box(box model).
Here you can use
Selenium.focus("link=text")
:selenium.keyPressNative("10") . It presses the enter key.but while selenium is executing this statement
Do not change the focus from your AUT (don't touch the mouse).
In IDE ,just paste the above statement on click().
Well, I don't think you have to slow the speed down. You know the problem is caused by clicking on the link before it is available, so you could add an extra command waitForVisible (e.g. link=Bill Gates: Chairman) before the clickAndWait command.
Im assuming you are using Google instant as there is no "click search button" command, the link is probably not preset because selenium is not waiting for Google instant to respond or the javascript to render the link. If you manually add in a click command to search it should solve it.
My solution is almost the same as Cuongs. Though I change the speed by using a command and change it back afterwards.
Before you click the link, you can set the speed to slow:
Command: setSpeed
Target: 3000
You can change the speed afterwards again to ~1000
I also had same problem. I did two things which fixed the problem. I changed the speed in Selenium IDE from fast to slow (located at top left of IDE), and I minimized the IDE after hitting play button. I guess for people using only one monitor, minimizing Selenium IDE would help the test find the thing it is looking for; for ppl with two screens, opening Selenium IDE in one screen, and opening browser in another screen would be best.
Info: Installing this plug-in (Selenium IDE: Flow Control) fixed lots of unexpected errors for me while playing with Selenium IDE:-
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flow-control/?src=dp-dl-othersby
In order to automate DOH tests during our build process, I use Selenium RC to launch different browsers (IE and Firefox) on a server placed on a different domain than the build machine. Each browser is directed to our runTests.html in order to start DOH.
Sometimes, when a test that uses doh.robot starts, the following message is shown:
"DOH has detected that the current web page is attempting to access DOH, but belongs to a different domain than the one you agreed to let DOH automate. If you did not intend to start a new DOH test by visiting this Web page, press Cancel now and leave the Web page"
but since these tests are unattended it just sits there waiting for someone to click OK, and Selenium times out (in IE 8 it seems like the pop-up disappears automatically but the robot does nothing afterward).
As I said, it doesn't always happen. After you click OK on the Pop-up, the message will stop showing, and the message can go away for several sessions, but then it will show again in which seems to be an arbitrary way.
Does anyone knows a way to prevent this pop-up from showing?
This is probably not the correct way to do it, but in util/doh/robot/DOHRobot.java, you may be able to modify the code to not check that or always simulate pressing "OK". I haven't tried it myself, but I may also need to do that for some of our automated testing.
When the DOH robot is initialized, it first tries to click in the upper left corner of the page you are trying to test. If you obscure this div (you can see it with firebug), then the message will pop up. I think the problem is that your page isn't always loading up quick enough.
It is somewhat of a challenge to fix this. I haven't used DOH in awhile, but I don't think there is any way you can use a setTimeout to fix this. (You can try using setTimeout on the doh.run command, but it might be the case that the DOH robot clicks that div before parsing any doh commands.)
Another thing you might be able to do is add a sort of "wait" command to Selenium, or whatever shell command you are using to fire up the system.
I am using Selenium-python script for web test automation. When ever I use selenium inbuilt commands, I will get Attribute error during run time.
Ex: selenium.WindowFocus("preview_email") throws "AttributeError: class selenium has no attribute 'WindowFocus'"
I am new to test automation. Help me to sort out this problem.
The command that you are looking for is selenium.window_focus()
I have never used the Python client personally, but a quick glance at the selenium.py file reveals that there is a window_focus command which gives the currently "selected" window focus ("selected" in Selenium terms is the window that Selenium is currently executing commands against and not necessarially the window that has user focus).
Executing the select_window command with a window ID will set tell Selenium which window you want to execute commands against.
I have had some trouble w/ popups in general and the way the Selenium IDE and RC clients attempt to locate new windows and/or there parents. Good luck.
I think you want to force web-driver to go to another window with name "preview_email".
For this purpose, you need to use selenium.switch_to_window("preview_email"); because selenium.window_focus() just gives focus to the currently selected window and accepts no arguments. Additionally you used it in JAVA mode (I mean selenium.windowFocus()).