Problem with waitForPageToLoad()

Hi All,

step 1): selenium.click("id=signIn");
step 2): selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
step 3): selenium.click("id=signOut");

Sometimes i am getting exception while executing step 3).
So i increased the waitForPageToLoad from 30 sec to 100sec, even though i am
getting exception element id=signOut not found.

how to use selenium.clickAndWait() in selenium rc ?

Did you try

Code:

selenium.clickAndWait("id=signIn");

then

Code:

selenium.clickAndWait("id=signOut");

?

I tried

Code:

selenium.clickAndWait("id=signIn");

but showing error

What error exactly?

Maybe this topic will help http://www.qualitytesting.info/forum/topics/does-selenium-rc-support?xg_source=activity

what's the environment? what're the steps? what's the error? Pls more detail so that other people can help you more quickly.

I am using Selenium RC with java as client driver.

I mean showing error means that there is no much method Selenium RC 1.0 api.

Actually i am testing gmail sign in & sign out functionality.
Upto sign in it is working fine, after that i am clicking on sent mail and then sign out.

Sometimes this process is working fine and other times it's not working.So i thought before page loading only, selenium server is checking for the element "Sent mail".

I tried with

Code:

waitForCondition((selenium.isElementPresent("link=Sent Mail") == true?"true":"false"),"8000");

But it is throwing selenium exception : Time out after 8000 ms

this method

Code:

selenium.isElementPresent("link=Sent Mail") == true?"true":"false";

is returning false only.

clickAndWait() is a command of IDE, but not exist in RC.
in RC, the clickAndWait is broke down 'click' and 'watiForPageToLoad("3000").
And in RC, the code should be :
for (int second = 0;; second++) {
if (second >= 60) fail("timeout");
try { if (selenium.isElementPresent("//div[@id="1"]")) break; } catch (Exception e) {}
Thread.sleep(1000);
}

not only selenium.isElementPresent("//div[@id="1"]").

If it's still existing the error, you can try to make the 'second' more longer.

freesky wrote:clickAndWait() is a command of IDE, but not exist in RC.

You are not right. There is clickAndWait() command in Selenium RC. I'm using Selenium RC with PHPUnit.

Thanks for all of your suggestions.
Now it's working.
I increased the timeout value for waitForCondition() from 8000ms to 30000 ms.
And also i used

Code:

selenium.setSpeed(5000);

for delaying execution of selenium commands one after the other.

But now another problem arises

While clicking for inbox, i used

Code:

selenium.click("link=Inbox ");

but when there is an unread mail in inbox or any new mail comes to inbox, link is changing, then i need to change the above method as

Code:

selenium.click("link=Inbox (1)");

According to Selenium doc, it is better to use "href" when link is dynamically changing. so i record the inbox clicking as

Code:

selenium.click("//a[contains(@href, 'https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox')]");

I recorded this element locator by Selenium IDe only, but it is

elemnet not found Exception

You should try:

Code:

selenium.click("//a[contains(text(), 'Inbox')]");

I think it will work fine.

faramka wrote:

Code:

selenium.click("//a[contains(text(), 'Inbox')]");

When a new mail or unread mails in Inbox then the below method changes from

Code:

selenium.click("//a[contains(text(), 'Inbox')]"); 

to

Code:

selenium.click("//a[contains(text(), 'Inbox(1)')]"); 

So i need to modify my script every time, whenever i wants to run this.

How to uniquely identify the inbox( dynamically changing element)?

Is the second parameter of contains() variable or just a string ('Inbox')?

When you use

Code:

selenium.click("//a[contains(text(), 'Inbox')]");

click method will work properly with every link containing 'Inbox' like 'Inbox (1)' or 'Inbox (5)', or even any other text, for example, 'My Inbox' or 'ThisInboxHasOneUnreadMail'


Hmmm, one main question: do you want to open inbox just when there is a new mail or always (regardless of whether there is something new)?

faramka wrote:
Hmmm, one main question: do you want to open inbox just when there is a new mail or always (regardless of whether there is something new)?

I want to click on Inbox always whether a new mail comes or not.

But when i am trying to record clicking on a particular mail through selenium ide, it's not recording.

How to achieve mail clicking in gmail?

So what do you want to do now? Open Inbox or open & get one particular email?

open Inbox and then click & open one particular email from displayed mails list?

Now you know how to open Inbox. You can check length of this link's text

Code:

a[contains(text(), 'Inbox')]

and verify if there is a new mail in the Inbox. Then, I think, you should try with XPath to open one particular message - find the table containing mails and then try to click at the first element tr in this table (the newest mails are on the top, so at the start of table).

Hi Faramka,
Thank you very much for the reply.

I tried like this:

Code:


      selenium.isElementPresent("//table[@id='pd']//tr[1]/td[3]")  // returns false;
      selenium.isElementPresent("//table[@id='pd']")            // returns false;

I noticed one issue that Gmail is in sometimes iframes and other times as tables.

If it is in tables then Selenium IDE is recording clicking on a particular mail.
If it is in iframes then it IDE is not recording clicking on a particular mail.

What should i do if i want to open a particular mail even though any number of new mails arrives into Inbox?

Pls correct me if i had done anything wrong.

Regards,
Susmitha

susmitha wrote:I noticed one issue that Gmail is in sometimes iframes and other times as tables.

Do you know (or can you define) what does it depend? Does it depend on the web browser? I have checked it in Chrome and then in Firefox - in both cases I see mails in the table.

Could you show some code with iframes?

You can check the page (Inbox page) and determine if there is the table with mails and do specific operations depending on type of gmail (iframes or tables).

Mails are in table only.
But the code

Code:

<iframe id="canvas_frame" class="cO" frameborder="0" title="main" src="?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4" name="ce7n1unwur0c">

followed by html code , is not recording clicking on a mail using selenium Ide

But i resolved clicking on one of the dispalyed inbox mails using these methods

Code:

selenium.isElementPresent("//html/body/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[7]/div/div/table/tbody/tr[4]/td[3]/div/span/span"));

// xpath copied using firebug to know whether this element exists or not

Code:

selenium.clickAt("//html/body/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[7]/div/div/table/tbody/tr[4]/td[3]/div/span/span", "");

// for clicking on that particular element

Mails are in table only.
But the code

Code:

<iframe id="canvas_frame" class="cO" frameborder="0" title="main" src="?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4" name="ce7n1unwur0c">

followed by html code , is not recording clicking on a mail using selenium Ide

But i resolved clicking on one of the dispalyed inbox mails using these methods

Code:

selenium.isElementPresent("//html/body/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[7]/div/div/table/tbody/tr[4]/td[3]/div/span/span"));

// xpath copied using firebug to know whether this element exists or not

Code:

selenium.clickAt("//html/body/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[7]/div/div/table/tbody/tr[4]/td[3]/div/span/span", "");

// for clicking on that particular element

OK
I think, you don't need to use clickAt method, 'cause you don't use coordinates and the second parameter of this method stays empty. Just try with click method.

faramka wrote:OK
I think, you don't need to use clickAt method, 'cause you don't use coordinates and the second parameter of this method stays empty. Just try with click method.

Thank you very much.

But clickAt() with empty coordinates is working for me.

susmitha wrote:I tried

Code:

selenium.clickAndWait("id=signIn");

but showing error

there is no clickAndWait() method in selenium rc