I've been struggling with the difference between the following commands, used while accessing widgets contained within iframes:
selenium.selectFrame("widget0");
selenium.selectWindow("name=widget0");
In the past (prior to IDE v1.0.12), I have been using these interchangeably, preferring the former over the latter in most cases. However, with 1.0.12, swapping them out after recording does not work. In what cases would each one be used?
Thanks.
selectFrame is the API of selenium to select a particular frame form HTML source.
Say, some HTML elements are present inside a iframe of HTML source, therefore u are
not able to take event on those elements until to use selectFrame API.
selectWindow will be used in those cases where after take some event a new browser popup
window open and u need to take action on the popup window instead of main browser page.
After doing ur operation u need to select back ur main browser window.
Related
Selenium : After clicking a Click in home page , one more screen appears and it got altogether different new DOM loaded and am currently unable to handle any elements using selenium and getting Element not found exception
Note : Tried Manually to load the same page and in browser console provided the same element and got nothing . but after long time it shows element. Is there a way to handle it?
You can handle your child window using below code. Basically we need to switch web driver control from your parent window to child window and once you finish process then again you have to switch control back to your parent window for further process. We can use window_handles to get handle of all opened windows by web driver and then we can switch from one window to another in a web application
Different Windows
Python :
driver.switch_to_window(driver.window_handles[-1])
title=driver.title
To handle synchronisation issue you can always use different types of waits available in the selenium e.g: implicit, explicit etc.
Does Selenium/Protractor look for element in current loaded page, or look in the entire application when using the same Css Selector for same elements?
Eg:
Save Button on Customers Form class="save"
Save Button on Vendors Form class="save"
Protractor works by interacting with the browser (via selenium). Selenium uses browser drivers to interact with your page, and the browser only contains the code that it asked for (returned from the server, based on the type of request that was made).
So yes, it only looks for elements in the currently loaded page. It has no access to your entire application code.
Selenium looks for the element only on the loaded page. Not sure about Protractor though.
Is there some specific way to test ajax based web application using webdriver?
Yes you should be careful when you write tests for pages that use JavaScript/Ajax heavily.
Main point in such case is to use wait condition each time you do something and result is not available instantly or via page change. When you need to add a wait condition examine behavior of the page and try to find some event that is a sign for you that operation is completed (attribute change, new element appears or disappears and so on).
On my full screen browser page the header is visible but the footer is not visible on the current window. To see the footer we needs to page down N times as the intermediate contents is populated when we page down (dynamically populate). So my problem is to know how many times i needs to page down to see the footer. Adding to this question, is it possible to know if an web element is below the current visible browser area ?
If you are using QTP for identifying and operating on the objects, you need not scroll down. Make sure that you are using strong locator properties (htmlId, ObjectId etc) for identifying the element and your code will work just fine. QTP works on the HTML source of the web page; so it is immaterial whether or not the element that you want to work on is visible or not. I am assuming there are no AJAX components here. With AJAX, you need to employ a different strategy.
I'm not even sure what the name of that is to be able to make a search... but I would like to make those kind of things. Facebook has that too with the messages, notifications and friends requests. Thanks
I'm not sure if you expect anyone to give you a complete tutorial with source code included? :) You should probably do some digging around yourself, since a concrete answer on this could mean to write a few pages :)
How can you dig around?
Thé tool for a job like that is Firebug (IMO).
With bigger tasks like these it makes sense to try to split it up in smaller pieces.
Let's say you go for a widget like the user profile popup on SO.
you need some HTML to display in a popup: right click on any html element on the popup and click the 'inspect element' menu item. This brings you to the HTML tab in firebug. This allows you to figure out how the HTML is structured
you need some CSS to style that popup: when you're browsing the html structure, you might already have noticed that on the right side of it is the CSS that is applied to the active element
you might want to use some animation effects: for that you could use jquery. Have a look here to find out more on which effects are available and how they can be triggered. Fading is used in the profile popup on SO.
then you might ask yourself the question where SO get's that html structure from, right? To find out more about which server calls are made you can use the 'NET' tab in Firebug. (When you hover over your user name (only the first time?), then you should notice there's a call made to something like: http://stackoverflow.com/users/profile-link-stats?_=someLongNumberHere
In firebug you can then inspect the request and response. You should notice that the response is some HTML structure. This HTML structure is then inserted into the DOM.
Sooooo you can kinda glue it all together now:
the user hovers over his user name
the hovering triggers a server call (see step 4): use jquery hover to attach a handler to the user link. (subsequent hovers don't trigger that server call, so there needs to be a check to see if that profile popup was already loaded or not)
when the server call successfully returns (see jquery get), the returned html is inserted into the DOM and a fadeIn effect is triggered.
it seems a mouseout is used to fadeOut the popup
I HOPE this is the answer you were looking for. It took me a while ;)
You probably need to check out stackapps