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wait for page load in selenium

How do you make Selenium wait for the page to load in Selenium 2.0?
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How to select/get drop down option in Selenium 2

I am converting my selenium 1 code to selenium 2 and can't find any easy way to select a label in a drop down menu or get the selected value of a drop down. Do you know how to do that in Selenium 2? ...
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Selenium WebDriver : Wait for complex page with JavaScript(JS) to load

I have a web application to test with selenium. There is a lot of JavaScript running on page load. This JavaScript code is not so well written but I can't change anything. So waiting for an element to ...
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WebDriver: get HTTP Response Code

I write Tests with Selenium2/WebDriver and want to test if HTTP Request returns an HTTP 403 Forbidden. Is it possible to get the http response status code with web driver?
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Using a Java library with Scala reserved words

I'm using an external library written in Java (Selenium). One of the function calls has the signature type(String, String), and I keep getting compiler errors when trying to call it from Scala, that ...
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Selenium click() event seems not to be always triggered => results in timeout?

Here's what I do: selenium.click("link=mylink"); selenium.waitForPageToLoad(60000); // do something, then navigate to a different page // (window focus is never changed in-between) ...
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How to check if an element is visible with WebDriver

With WebDriver from Selenium 2.0a2 I am having trouble checking if an element is visible. WebDriver.findElement returns a WebElement, which unfortunately doesn't offer an isVisible method. I can go ...
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Selenium is to Web UI testing as ________ is to Windows application UI testing [closed]

I'm interested in UI testing a client only Java application. What is the most popular framework for doing so? What is your recommended framework? Also, why doesn't Selenium do this (or does it)? It ...
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Selenium checkbox attribute “checked”

I am using Selenium in Java to test the checking of a checkbox in a webapp. Here's the code: private boolean isChecked; private WebElement e; I declare e and assign it to the area where the ...
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selenium WebDriver StaleElementReferenceException

i get this error when running my tests: org.openqa.selenium.StaleElementReferenceException: Element is no longer attached to the DOM any idea on how to solve the above exception? this happen in my ...
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Using Selenium to retrieve value of a HTML input

In the HTML of a webapp there is the following code <input type="text" name="prettyTime" id="prettyTime" class="ui-state-disabled prettyTime" readonly="readonly"> What is actually shown on ...
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How to deal with file uploading in test automation using selenium or webdriver

I think that everybody how uses Webdriver for test automation must be aware of its great advantages for web development. But there is a huge issue if file uploading is part of your webflow. It stops ...
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Selenium hangs instantiating FirefoxDriver

I try to get started with selenium (downloaded the current version today) and copied their example which opens a browser and performs a google search. However, the program hangs forever in the 1st ...
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How to perform mouseover function in Selenium WebDriver using Java?

I want to do mouseover function over a drop down menu. When we hover over the menu, it will show the new options. I tried to click the new options using the xpath. But cannot click the menus directly. ...
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How to check if an alert exists using WebDriver?

I need to check the existence of Alert in WebDriver with Java. Sometimes it pops up an alert but sometimes it will not pop up. I need to check if the alert exists first, then I can accept or dismiss ...
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Selenium WebDriver: clicking on elements within an SVG using XPath

I have an SVG object with a few circle and rectangle elements. Using webdriver, I can click on the main svg object, but not any of the elements within it. The problem only seems to be with clicking ...
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Page Object Model Best Practices in Selenium

When you are modelling your page objects, how would you deal with a page which has form and about 50 input fields on it? What is the best practice here? Would you create a page object and write a ...
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Selenium - Wait for network traffic

We're using Selenium with the Java API and some Javascript user extensions. We use a lot of AJAX calls in our app. A lot of our tests fail randomly because sometimes the AJAX calls finish slower than ...
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How to automate drag & drop functionality using selenium web driver

How to automate drag & drop functionality using selenium webdriver in java
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Selenium run as a Windows service to take screenshots on errors

I would like an automated web tests suite based on Selenium RC to take screenshots of pages when some errors are encountered. The test suite is a part of the continuous integration process and ...
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Getting the URL of the current page using Selenium WebDriver

I'm attempting to get the URL of the currently open page. I am using Selenium WebDriver and Java. I am accessing the current URL via: WebDriver driver = new WebDriver(); String url = ...
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Node.js Selenium IPv6 Issue (SocketException Protocol family unavailable)

This error only happens when I spawn the ios-driver jar as a Node.js child. The error is java.net.SocketException: Protocol family unavailable selenium-test.js: var spawn = ...
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Testing onbeforeunload events from Selenium

I'm trying to write a Selenium test for a web page that uses an onbeforeunload event to prompt the user before leaving. Selenium doesn't seem to recognize the confirmation dialog that comes up, or to ...
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Using Chrome Driver with Selenium 2

I'm trying to use Chrome Drive to execute some of my tests, which are working perfectly with Firefox, but I'm not being able to execute them, I'm already verified the requirements, which are the ...
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Equivalent of waitForVisible/waitForElementPresent in Selenium WebDriver tests using Java?

With "HTML" Selenium tests (created with Selenium IDE or manually), you can use some very handy commands like WaitForElementPresent or WaitForVisible. <tr> ...
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Can selenium handle autocomplete?

I have a test case that requires typing in a partial value into an ajax based textfield and verifying the list has the expected content. If it does, select the content. Any idea how to make this ...
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Running a single test in maven -> No tests were executed!

When I run a single test in Maven with this command: mvn test -Dtest=InitiateTest I'm getting the following result: No tests were executed! It worked a couple of minutes ago, but now it stopped ...
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Selenium and Firefox 9's “Will you help improve Mozilla Firefox” popup

I'm trying to test a Java web app using Selenium 2.16.1. When Selenium opens Firefox, I see a band at the top of the page with message "Will you help improve Mozilla Firefox" For some reason this ...
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Selenium webdriver: finding all elements with similar id

I have this xpath: //*[@id="someId::button"] Pressing it shows a dropdown list of values. Now, I know all the elements in the list have an id like this : //*[@id="someId--popup::popupItemINDEX"] ...
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File Upload using Selenium WebDriver and Java

I am using Selenium WebDriver and Java and I need to automate the file upload feature. I tried a lot, but the moment the Browse button is clicked and a new window opens the script stops executing ...
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Selenium. How to click a link who's href has a certain substring?

The following is a bunch of links <a elements. ONLY one of them has a substring "long" as a value for the attribute href <a class="c1" href= "very_lpng string" > name1 </a> <a ...
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How do I get an parent HTML Tag with Selenium WebDriver using Java

I have a Test which search for <span class="legend">. On a previous level I have a fieldset which contains several values. Here is my problem. I don't get the locator for this fieldset. First ...
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Selenium Web Driver : Handle Confirm Box using Java

Hi I am using the following code for handling the alert box after clicking an action but it isn't working Can somebody please help. This is where I call the handler. clickOnAlert() after ...
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HtmlUnit + Selenium within Production

I am currently using HtmlUnit and Selenium to drive it (WebDriver) within my production code. I am scaping and interacting with various websites programmatically with these libraries and am having ...
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In Java, best way to check if Selenium WebDriver has quit

I need to check a collection of Page Objects to see, for each one, if quit() has been called on its WebDriver. I've written the following method to check a WebDriver's state: public static boolean ...
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2answers
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How to implement WebDriver PageObject methods that can return different PageObjects

I've just started using WebDriver, and I'm trying to learn the best practices, in particular using PageObjects and PageFactory. It's my understanding that PageObjects should expose the various ...
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Temporarily bypassing implicit waits with WebDriver

When using implicit waits, as advised here, I still sometimes want to assert the immediate invisibility or non-existence of elements. In other words, I know some elements should be hidden, and want ...
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How do you get selenium to recognize that a page loaded?

In certain unknown situations selenium does not detect that a page has loaded when using the open method. I am using the Java API. For example (This code will not produce this error. I don't know of ...
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handling “are you sure you want to navigate away from this page” Msg in Selenium 2.0

Using Selenium 2.0 After Submitting a web form, A popup msg comes up with the "are you sure you want to navigate away from this page" message, How do I get selenium to press OK or disable this popup? ...
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Failed to connect to binary FirefoxBinary with Selenium in Maven

I am running some Selenium-Tests. When I start them directly from Eclipse everything works fine. But when I Start them through Maven there the following Exception occurs: ...
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handling iframe in webdriver

<div> <iframe id="cq-cf-frame "> <iframe id="gen367"> <body spellcheck="false" id="CQrte" style="height: 255px; font-size: 12px; ...
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isElementPresent in selenium 2.0

Hello all I am using webdriver so if I want to use selenium;s rc function isElementPresent I have to emulate selenium rc so I do something like this: import org.openqa.selenium.By; import ...
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Selenium Unit Test using JUnit (Java)

I just want to quickly ask, I found all over the internet and even here on SO, how Selenium IDE can create Java source files from what you are doing in browser. But all these sources result in some ...
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Running Selenium scripts from Jmeter

I have Selenium automation scripts ready with functional flow, now i want to integrate those scripts with jmeter for load-testing. Is that possible? If so how to integrate both? My first aim is to ...
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How do you use Selenium to execute javascript within a frame?

I have a page (index.html) which has a frame: <html> <body> <iframe src="otherPage.html" /> </body> </html> And the otherPage.html has the contents: <html> ...
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How to get Firefox working with Selenium WebDriver on Mac OSX

I am trying to config proxy settings for the WebDriver so I have used the following code .... FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(); profile.setPreference("network.proxy.type", 1); ...
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Selenium - Could not start Selenium session: Failed to start new browser session: Error while launching browser

I am new to Selenium. I generated my first java selenium test case and it has compiled successfully. But when I run that test I got the following RuntimeException java.lang.RuntimeException: Could ...
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How can I consistently remove the default text from an input element with Selenium?

I'm trying to use Selenium WebDriver to input text to a GWT input element that has default text, "Enter User ID". Here are a few ways I've tried to get this to work: searchField.click(); ...
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Error running Selenium IDE "Error: Permission denied to access property 'nr@context'

Starting this morning (4/3/14), I have been getting errors when my Selenium IDE tests run against my site. These tests were working just fine yesterday. I am running FF 25, Selenium IDE 2.5.0. ...
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Executing tests Concurrently on different OS and Browsers with WebDriver using Java and TestNG

I have configured grid in my system and written my test script. I can run my test on any specified OS and any Browser but only on one OS and one Browser at one time not all OS and all Browser ...

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