Yes, if you’re having problems with StaleElementReferenceExceptions it’s because there is a race condition. Consider the following scenario: WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id(“foo”)); // DOM changes – page is refreshed, or element is removed and re-added element.click(); Now at the point where you’re clicking the element, the element reference is no longer valid. It’s close to … Read more
The distinction is rather easy: extending TestCase is the way unit tests were written in JUnit 3 (of course it’s still supported in JUnit 4) using the @Test annotation is the way introduced by JUnit 4 Generally you should choose the annotation path, unless compatibility with JUnit 3 (and/or a Java version earlier than Java … Read more
CSV is only for “flat” structures, so trying to mix that with JSON is too ambitious in my honest opinion. Please look for another framework if needed 🙂 That said I see 2 options: a) use proper quoting and escaping in the CSV b) refer to JSON files Here is an example: Scenario Outline: * … Read more
There is totally a cross-browser way to do this using webdriver, those who say you can not are just too lazy. First, you need to use WebDriver to inject and anchor tag into the page that opens the tab you want. Here’s how I do it (note: driver is a WebDriver instance): /** * Executes … Read more
The answer is very simple: you are describing functional testing, which is an important part of software QA. Testing internal implementation is unit-testing, which is another part of software QA with a different goal. That’s why you are feeling that people disagree with your approach. Functional testing is important to validate that the system or … Read more
The web has many tutorials on data driving Coded UI tests. The basic steps for data driving with a CSV file are as follows. Create the CSV file. Add the CSV file to the project. Make sure the CSV file is deployed. Add the CSV file as a data source for an individual test. Read … Read more
If I understand correctly, you want to run an entire test plan programmatically from within a Java program. Personally, I find it easier to create a test plan .JMX file and run it in JMeter non-GUI mode 🙂 Here is a simple Java example based on the controller and sampler used in the original question. … Read more
First, I personally think that this is a mis-use of Karate, and you seem to be more interested in reports than actually doing testing. Take some time to think about it. Karate has excellent report integration and you are just wasting your time doing this in my very honest, sincere opinion. No one has asked … Read more
From the Selenium Documentation PDF : import contextlib import selenium.webdriver as webdriver import selenium.webdriver.support.ui as ui with contextlib.closing(webdriver.Firefox()) as driver: driver.get(‘http://www.google.com’) wait = ui.WebDriverWait(driver,10) # Do not call `implicitly_wait` if using `WebDriverWait`. # It magnifies the timeout. # driver.implicitly_wait(10) inputElement=driver.find_element_by_name(‘q’) inputElement.send_keys(‘Cheese!’) inputElement.submit() print(driver.title) wait.until(lambda driver: driver.title.lower().startswith(‘cheese!’)) print(driver.title) # This raises # selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message: None # … Read more
You need to make sure the standalone ChromeDriver binary (which is different than the Chrome browser binary) is either in your path or available in the webdriver.chrome.driver environment variable. see http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver for full information on how wire things up. Edit: Right, seems to be a bug in the Python bindings wrt reading the chromedriver binary … Read more