The getText() method is for retrieving a text node between element tags for example: <p>Something</p> getText() will return “Something” In a textbox typed text goes into the value attribute so you can try something like: findElement(By.id(“someid”)).getAttribute(“value”); ComboBox is a bit different. But if you’re using the Select object you can use the method: Select selectItem … Read more
In case anyone washed up this shore looking for how to do this with Poltergeist you just need to pass the full argument: page.save_screenshot(‘screen.png’, full: true) # If providing a custom file name. page.save_screenshot(full: true) # Capybara sets a name based on timestamp. page.save_and_open_screenshot(‘screen.png’, full: true) # Same as save_screenshot. page.save_and_open_screenshot(full: true) # Same as … Read more
You get this error when the browser asks you to accept the certificate from a website. You can set to ignore these errors by default in order avoid these errors. For Chrome, you need to add –ignore-certificate-errors and –ignore-ssl-errors ChromeOptions() argument: options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() options.add_argument(‘–ignore-certificate-errors’) options.add_argument(‘–ignore-ssl-errors’) driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options) For the Firefox, you need to … Read more
If you have a lot of test cases in a single suite, it’s a pain to change the Base URL for each. Instead, create a separate case for each Base URL you need to switch between. For example, I have store https://testing.site.com/ as myEnvironment saved as test case SetEnvTesting. I create another case for my … Read more
Only using class names is not sufficient in your case. By.cssSelector(“.ban”) has 15 matching nodes By.cssSelector(“.hot”) has 11 matching nodes By.cssSelector(“.ban.hot”) has 5 matching nodes Therefore you need more restrictions to narrow it down. Option 1 and 2 below are available for CSS selector, 1 might be the one that suits your needs best. Option … Read more
Selenium does not have an IDE for Internet Explorer (any version). I haven’t seen any under development either. You can check their boards/site for updates but I their primary focus is FireFox for the IDE. Selenium can run tests in Internet Explorer (including IE6) using the SeleniumRC. You can record tests with the IDE in … Read more
You should probably start your research here (though you may have already gone over this): http://seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.html I’ll assume you’re contrasting Selenium-RC to WebDriver, Selenium-IDE really isn’t in the same ballpark. Selenium uses JavaScript to automate web pages. This lets it interact very tightly with web content, and was one of the first automation tools to … Read more
I resolved this by updating my chrome driver to the latest version (v2.34 at the time of writing). You can get the chromedriver here: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads just download the .exe file then replace the chromedriver file in your project’s selenium/bin folder.
I had the same issue. I fixed it by using the not deprecated .until() method of WebDriverWait and by adding the following to my maven pom.xml: <dependency> <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId> <artifactId>guava</artifactId> <version>21.0</version> </dependency> Other than that, my code looks exactly like before. To be more specific there are now two .until() methods. The old one (which is … Read more
I had similar error. But versions were matching: I was using Chrome 65 with driver version 2.38. I spent long time, trying to understand the issue. At the end, found that it was caused by empty /etc/hosts file. Apparently Chrome communicates via localhost, and if such entry missing in /etc/hosts – it will crash. So, … Read more