#selenium

I'm trying to select this input element http://imgur.com/a/MuE2X and input a username with this code: driver.findElement(By.name('username')).sendKeys('admin');

I'm getting this error: NoSuchElementError: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"css selector","selector":"*[name="username"]"}

can anyone help me understand what I am doing wrong?

Without being at computer, timing issue? Inside an i frame ?

how do i know if it is inside an iframe?

search the DOM for 'iframe' :)

i see an iframe

it is inside an iframe

if it is in an iframe, you need to switch into that iframe first

how do I do that?

select the iframe?

:google java selenium iframe

java - How to handle iframe in WebDriver - Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9942928/how-...

thank you

I know the Ruby much better than the java

i'm using javascript

with node

ah, do the same search with javascript :)

titusfortner-sl how do run tests in parallel with capybara?

Which bindings ? The official ones from selenium, or webdriver.io or wd.js ? Might have to include that in your search

dude-x funny you should ask

titusfortner-sl i'm writing a report about alternatives; i'm leaving my current company and my boss asked me to do a write up about pros and cons

That whole repo is showing how to run tests in parallel (specifically on Sauce Labs)

is this a congrats or I'm sorry?

smccarthy-sl: selenium I think

titusfortner-sl i'm moving on

so more like congrats, i guess

do you know where yet?

:) Congrats!

no not yet

i'm looking to join a finance company to get extra $$$$

@dude-x what is your company using now

my test manager wrote a thing in python

heh, where do you live?

but we are a rails shop

i live in NYC

Ah, ok, rails

my test manager left a couple of weeks ago

most rails people use capybara with rspec

can capybara run tests in parallel easily?

like rake parallel tests and the spec

success! thanks titusfortner-sl smccarthy-sl

Rspec & Cucumber both act as test harnesses / runners, and that is what controls parallel running

titusfortner-sl seems like the sauce example does things (in parallel?) using task definitions

Capybara / Watir are Test Frameworks / Libraries that can be run with either RSpec or Cucumber

well one of my coworkers was pushing Capybara when i joined. but i said that's a fight you have to have with the test manager.

titusfortner-sl: hi, I need some ruby help, how to wait until staleness of an element?

but maybe now it will be his chance.

Hi there. Getting the following error on file upload: Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError: unknown error: path is not absolute: seems to have the right path. Anyone seen this before and know how to fix?

@wait.until(???)

@dude-x hmm, the RSpec example is using parallel-test gem for it, I assumed it would work in cucumber as well

Works locally for me but fails on my jenkins box even though the url its returning seems to be the correct path

@barancev this is how watir implements it: https://github.com/watir/watir/blob/master/lib/...

titusfortner-sl parallel-test is not bad. it records test times and batches them. it was an idea i had when i used to do selenium in java/junit

any wire call will error when it goes stale

so it's just a matter of rescuing it

so it's more than a line of code, ok, thanks!

I thought there is a cheat

like it is always in ruby :)

it's one word in Watir. ;-)

`Element#stale?`

but... watir...

rewriting tons of tests...

I really wish I'd gotten to give my presentation on Why Watir

yes, if it's a matter of rewriting tests, then right

@dude-x yeah if devs at the company are familiar with and interested in Capybara, then that's the route you should go, even if I prefer Watir for a number of reasons :)

https://github.com/saucelabs-sample-test-framew...; & <https://github.com/saucelabs-sample-test-framew...

i think Watir seems like a lot of work because it is a full fledged framework

Capybara seems like a nice wrapper and you can use rspec syntax

Actually Capybara is more of a Framework with a DSL, and Watir is more of a Library with an API

interesting

well i'm glad i don't have to decided this kind of thing

There's more magic with Capybara, and more things hidden from the user. Which is great if you are doing simple things

the problem with any framework is when you hit the edge cases

the more a framework doesn't handle, requiring work-arounds, the less useful it is in general

the website at this company is not that sophisticated, but we will need devs to be invested in UI testnig