I recorded an action using the Selenium IDE and used the File->Export Test Cases as Python 2 (Remote Control) format.

I am using Selenium RC 2.3.0

I then ran the script from command prompt but it throws an exception.

The exported Python 2 RC code is:

from selenium import selenium
import unittest, time, re

class login(unittest.TestCase):
   def setUp(self):
       self.verificationErrors = []
       self.selenium = selenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome", "http://
testServer1/")
       self.selenium.start()

   def test_login(self):
       sel = self.selenium
       sel.open("/WebAccess/login.html")
       sel.type("id=LoginID", "Administrator")
       sel.type("id=Password", "Administrator")
       sel.click("id=login")
       sel.wait_for_page_to_load("30000")
       sel.click("link=Home") # This is where it fails.

   def tearDown(self):
       self.selenium.stop()
       self.assertEqual([], self.verificationErrors)

if __name__ == "__main__":
   unittest.main()

At this line - sel.click("link=Home") it fails with the exception

======================================================================
ERROR: test_login (__main__.login)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\login.py", line 16, in
test_log
in
   sel.click("link=Home")
 File "C:\Python27\lib\selenium\selenium.py", line 290, in click
   self.do_command("click", [locator,])
 File "C:\Python27\lib\selenium\selenium.py", line 217, in do_command
   raise Exception, data
Exception: ERROR: Element link=Home not found

----------------------------------------------------------------------

I even tried increasing the 30000 to 60000 but still no help. I can see the page is loaded fully and waiting for a while because of the higher timeout. However when executing this link=Home it fails.

The HTML code is:

<div class="links nopreview">
<span><a class="csiAction" href="/WebAccess/home.html#URL=centric://
REFLECTION/INSTANCE/_CS_Data/null">Home</a></span>
<span>&nbsp;•&nbsp;</span>
<span><span><a class="csiAction" href="/WebAccess/
home.html#URL=centric://SITEADMIN/_CS_Site">Setup</a>
</span><span>&nbsp;•&nbsp;</span>
</span><span><a title="Sign Out" class="csiAction csiActionLink">Sign
Out</a></span>
</div>

The recorded actions using IDE are:

<tr>
   <td>open</td>
   <td>/WebAccess/login.html</td>
   <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
   <td>type</td>
   <td>id=LoginID</td>
   <td>Administrator</td>
</tr>
<tr>
   <td>type</td>
   <td>id=Password</td>
   <td>Administrator</td>
</tr>
<tr>
   <td>clickAndWait</td>
   <td>id=login</td>
   <td></td>
</tr>

<tr>
   <td>click</td>
   <td>link=Home</td>
   <td></td>
</tr>

I did run the test using IDE's recorded script. It works great. I was able to login and click on the Home link too. However, it fails with that exception when I wanted to run it using Python's Unittest with Selenium Server 2.3.0.

I tried sel.click('//a[contains(text((),"Home")]') and it throws the exception

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\login.py", line 17, in test_log in sel.click('//a[contains(text((),"Home")]') File "C:\Python27\lib\selenium\selenium.py", line 290, in click self.do_command("click", [locator,])
File "C:\Python27\lib\selenium\selenium.py", line 217, in do_command raise Exception, data Exception:
ERROR: Invalid xpath [2]: //a[contains(text((),"Home")]

I even tried sel.click('xpath=//a[contains(text((),"Home")]') and it still throws the same exception as mentioned in the above comment. I wonder what could be wrong. If I comment the line that clicks on the Home link then it runs fine. Its the problem with clicking this link.

To add, not only for Home. It does not work for Home or Setup or even Signout for that matter. It does not work for any of the links in that div. However playing back the recorded script works fine!

Any suggestions or guidance, please?

Hi,

Could you please tell me how to run in different browthers scenarios which were recorded by twist using selenium driver and firefox?

Thanks a lot!

Hi,

I'm trying to upload a file as part of a test I'm currently writing, but when I replay the test the filename isn't supplied to the file upload control and therefore the required field validation fails when the form submits.  The selenium code generated is as follows:

selenium.type(ctl00_cphMain_fvSubjectConsent_fuScannedForm, "test.png");

Any ideas?

Thanks,

James

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I am writing a basic script of opening a website in twist using selenium. After execution of my script the execution window closes by itself. I want to keep that window in open state.. can someone help me in this?

Cheers,

Preeti