What is the AlertOverride class used for in WebDriver? - selenium

In Selenium 2.0 there is a class I've seen used with WebDriverCommandProcessor called AlertOveride. Unfortunately I cannot seem to find any documentation around this class, does anyone have any knowledge of what the class is meant to be used for?

Looking at the JavaScript in the file it seems that this class is responsible for overriding the alert and confirm boxes that we would typically see when invoked in the application under test. The way selenium works it was unable to interact with those modal boxes, hence the need to override their defaults. I don't see a way to override that functionality (although it might be doable with a DesiredCapability).
I'm guessing that one of the first things the WebDriver instance does upon loading a page is invoking the methods in the AlertOverride class, so that we can get a handle on alerts/confirmations as soon as possible. This would also make sense as to why we can't get a handle on confirmation boxes that are created on the onload functions.

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Intellisense - deduce right Class by its methods

I'm used to work with NetBeans and now I'm trying IntelliJ. So my question is: Does IntelliJ has a way to get right class by its methods?
For example, in NetBeans if I write:
glGenBu // Intellisense will kick in and will suggest me
to use GL15.glGenBuffers() method from GL15 class
This will automatically import the right library.
This is very handy because I'm working with LWJGL and it has a bad way to manage OpenGL methods ('GLXX' where XX is the version of OpenGL and all methods that appeared in that version are stored in that class) and I never remember the right class where my desired method is.
Thank you.
Pressing Ctrl+Space when you already see completion list will show more suggestions, with static methods from the entire project among them. See https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/auto-completing-code.html for more details.

geb jquery.mouseover() not working

The geb documentation shows that it has built in jQuery support. Im interested in one particular method called mouseover. However when I try to use the mouseover function I get a warning saying, "Cannot resolve symbol 'mouseover'". This happens even when I'm using the code in their example. What am I missing?
This might not directly answer your question. But if you are trying to mimic mouse over action in Geb, you could also use
interact {
moveToElement(element)
}
http://www.gebish.org/manual/current/#interact-closures

Test automation - Win32 app - White/UI automation - problem with recognizing objects

I’m looking for alternative for existing tests written in QTP for my Win32 application written in Borland C++.
My candidate is White which based on UI Automation because it’s native solution,
I can create my tests using .NET/C# and easily integrate it with nUnit and Hudson.
White
http://white.codeplex.com
MS UI Automation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms747327.aspx
UI Verify
http://uiautomationverify.codeplex.com
I use UI Verify as a spy to identify properties of objects I want to find in my tests.
More or less when I can see something in the spy, I can find it using UI Automation/White.
Generally I don't have much problems with recognizing objects
but when I try to search some content inside the tab contained in Tab Panel
or try to see MenuItems of Menu bar then the problem appears.
UI Automation/UI Verify works wired. When I run UI Verify (1.0 version) I see that objects can be registered properly only then
when I set 'Focus tracking' option and click on target objects or change the keyboard cursor on them. Otherwise it's impossible to find them.
UI Verifier can show me children of my 'tab' panel then. But I can’t find them using UI Automation/White. This is example code:
Tab tab = window.Get();
ITabPage tabPage = tab.SelectedTab;
AutomationElementCollection newCol = tabPage.AutomationElement.FindAll(TreeScope.Descendants, Condition.TrueCondition);
window.Get("buttonName");
the collection is empty even though spy see the children.
Does any of you have some experience with White/UI Automation library that he/she would like to share with me?
I want to implement the tracking feature from the spy to my tests. Can you help me with that? I'm trying to study the code of UIA Verify spy. I think that there are two classes responsible for catching the objects: FocusChangeListener and FocusTracer - this is the code:
http://uiautomationverify.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/9992#214260
http://uiautomationverify.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/9992#214192
Requirements:
1. Windows SDK
2. .NET 3.5
3. White
4. UIA Verify code
Do you have any better alternative for White/UI Automation?
R.
Could you, the R or YoYo, put your form compiled or in source codes (preferable without the internal logic) somewhere on a file share?
I've never seen a control that'd be not caught using UI Automation if UIAVerify sees it. I saw such windows, which could be only caught with the Focus Tracking feature of UIAVerify. This case, such a window is untouchable by UI Automation search.
Regarding a control, are you sure that the controls you struggling with have the Name property? Maybe, this is a value available only by means of ValuePattern, not the Name?

Methods best practice - VB.NET

I have a program that is getting pretty big and it is a pain to find everything through all the functions and classes.
I am trying to break it up into other files based on their method.
Some of these functions have calls to others in the main class. I changed most my functions from private to public to access this. I had problems calling certain code created windows so importing mainwindow helped that.
My last problem is editing the mainwindow ui from one of the module files. I want to make sure im on the right page before i continue breaking it up. My only guess is that anything they updates the ui should be left on the main class.
Thanks
The only code in your form class should be code that talks to other classes and updates the UI based on data from other classes.
Depending on your application, the form class might handle change events from other classes to update the UI or pass user input to other classes in Change or Click events.
A couple options:
Use callbacks into the your main window.
Create events for when you need the form updated. Your program logic raises the events, and your main window class can consume them.

Showing inherited methods in Squeak/Pharo Smalltalk

I'm familiar with the VisualWorks and Dolphin versions of Smalltalk, but have not previously used Squeak. I'm just familiarising myself with Pharo, which is a 'cleaned up' fork of Squeak.
I'm used to having the facility in the Class Browser to show either only the methods implemented by a class or both the methods inherited and the methods implemented.
Is this useful facility missing in Squeak, or have I just been unable to find it?
You can double-click on any class to open a Hierarchy Browser on that particular class. The hierarchy button in the toolbar and the menu entry browse hierarchy (Ctrl+H) open the same view.
There is the Inheritance Browser that shows you the hierarchal implementations of the currently selected method. Click on the inheritance button in the toolbar.
Furthermore there is the Protocol Browser that displays all methods and super methods of a class together. To open this browser select browse protocol (Ctrl+Shift+P) in the context menu of the class.
If you want to build a browser with that behaviour, you should take a look at the Glamour browser construction DSL.
I personally do not feel the need to see all 34 pages of method names defined in ProtoObject and Object, or the 5 pages of method categories. Object methods size prints 421.
AFAIK in the GemStoneTool there is such a thing, thre is a 1 or so and a # which seems to change the view to see all the methods available in a class (be it inherited or in the class itself) I'm as amazed as you that nothing like that exists in "standard images". Maybe the users know the libraries for ages, and maybe they remember enough to not bother. ....