Selenium: Testing auto complete fields

Selenium's "type" command does not trigger auto complete feature to give suggestion. We can use "typeKeys" method to simulate auto complete. Here is the sample code for this:

public static void inputTextInAutocompleteField(String testField, String testValue) 
{
        try {
                selenium.type(testField, testValue);
                selenium.typeKeys(testField," \b") ;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

Here we are first entering value in the text field, then using selenium's 'typeKeys' method to press 'space' character and then 'backspace' (\b) character.

Selenium: How to accept SSL certificates

When you run your selenium tests on any HTTPS url, things go wrong. We get certificate exception and test doesn't proceed. In firefox, the workaround for this problem is to create your own Firefox profile, with the specific certificate added on it manually and then start Selenium server with that firefox profile, but for Internet Explorer there is no such workaround.

However, we can resolve this issue by installing CyberVillains Certificate on Windows. We need to follow below steps to work Selenium with SSL.

1. Start selenium server with "-trustAllSSLCertificates" command
2. Use "*firefoxproxy" instead of "firefox" OR "*iexploreproxy" instead of "iexplore"
3. Install CyberVillains Certificate (selenium bundles a special certification authority (CA) certificate that is used to trust all the other SSL certificates.)

Installing CyberVillains Certificate
---------------------------------------
1. Extract selenium jar into a folder
2. Goto sslSupport diretory
3. Double click on cybervillainsCA.cer

Bash: read csv file

Here is the script to read csv file in shell script.

#!/bin/bash
FILENAME=test.csv
OLDSEP=$IFS
IFS=,

[ ! -f $FILENAME ] && { echo "File not found : $FILENAME"; exit 99; }

while read field1 field2 field3 field4
do
    echo "$field1 : $field2 : $field3 : $field4"
done < $FILENAME

IFS=$OLDSEP

Cannot remove directory: File exists

I was trying to remove a directory and got error: "cannot remove directory 'logs/': File exists"

$chmod -R 777 logs/
$rm -rf logs/
$rm: cannot remove directory 'logs/': File exists

Checked the logs folder content and found out that there was .nfs*** file in this, when I manually deleted this file, it was recreated immediately and the timestamp of the file was not current, it was same of which I just deleted.

$ls -lrta
total 20K
drwxrwxrwx 3 test vishnu 4.0K May  3 03:27 ..
-rwxrwxr-x 1 test vishnu  11K May  3 03:27 .nfs29682
drwxrwxr-x 2 test vishnu 4.0K Jun  4 23:17 .

To solve this issue, we need to find out which process is using this file and delete that process.

$/usr/sbin/fuser -u logs/.*
logs/.:    
logs/..:    
logs/.nfs29682:     23142m(test)

23142 is the process which is using this directory, we need to kill it.

kill -9 23142

now delete the directory, it will be deleted successfully.

$rm -rf logs/
$

Selenium: Check if Selenium Server is running

If you want to check whether selenium server is running or not, hit the url "http://host:port/selenium-server/driver/?cmd=testComplete", If response is returned that means, server is running on the given host:port. Here is the Java code for this:

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

public static boolean isSeleniumServerRunning(String host, int port) 
  {
   try {
    String baseUrl = "http://" + host + ":" + port;
    System.out.println("Checking selenium server status [" + baseUrl + "]");
    URL url = new URL(baseUrl + "/selenium-server/driver/?cmd=testComplete");
    HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
    
    if(connection.getResponseCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK)
     return true;
  } catch (Exception e) {
   System.err.println("Could not check selenium server status: " + e.getMessage());
   e.printStackTrace();
  }   
  return false;
  }

Java: Copy Directory structure

Here is the code for copying a directory structure

 public static void copyFolder(String srcFile, String destFile) throws IOException
 {
  File src = new File(srcFile);
  File dest = new File(destFile);
  
  if(!src.exists())
  {
   System.out.println("Source folder do not exists [" + srcFile + "]");
   return;
  }
  
  if(src.isDirectory())
  {
    //if directory not exists, create it
    if(!dest.exists())
    {
       dest.mkdir();
    }

    //list all the directory contents
    String files[] = src.list();

    for (String file : files) 
    {
     
     //construct the src and dest file structure
     String sourceFile = src.getAbsolutePath() + File.separator + file;
     String destinationFile = dest.getAbsolutePath() + File.separator + file;
     
     //recursive copy
     copyFolder(sourceFile, destinationFile);    }
  }
  else
  {
    //if file, then copy it
    //Use bytes stream to support all file types
    InputStream in = new FileInputStream(src);
          OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(dest); 

          byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];

          int length;
          //copy the file content in bytes 
          while ((length = in.read(buffer)) > 0){
          out.write(buffer, 0, length);
          }

          in.close();
          out.close();
  }
 }

Java: Comparing Arrays

Want to compare arrays of which item may not be in same order. Here is the solution:

public static boolean compareArrays(String[] actual, String[] expected)
    {
        if(actual == null || expected == null)
            return false;
        
        Arrays.sort(actual);
        Arrays.sort(expected);
        
        if(Arrays.equals(actual, expected))
            return true;
        else
            return false;
    }

GNU Screen: Useful tips

Here are the useful trick for GNU screen:

1. Give access to other users on the screen:

  - Let say screen "test" is running on host 15.25.125.148 with user "xyz"
  - run command "Ctrl a :"
  - type "multiuser on" to enable multiuser mode
  - type "acladd <unix username>" (to whom you want to give access)
  - type "aclchg <args>" to change permissions on the screen for that user
  - Now the user will login on that host via command "ssh user@15.25.125.148"
  - attach to screen with command "screen -x xyz/test"

2. Changing session name of the running screen

The default session name created by the screen command is constructed from the tty and host names, which isn't very intuitive. To change this session name, run this command on your screen session

Ctrl a :sessionname newSessionName

3. Send a command to a window in a running screen session from the commandline 

screen -x <screen session name> -p <window number or name> -X stuff '<command>\012'

4. Create screen session with commands running

- First, create  .screenrc_test with following contents where you specify your tabbed sessions and commands

startup_message off
vbell off
caption always "%{= bb}%{+b w}%n %h %=%t %c"
hardstatus alwayslastline "%-Lw%{= BW}%50>%n%f* %t%{-}%+Lw%<"
activity "Activity in %t(%n)"
deflogin on
shell -/bin/bash

screen -t TAB1
stuff "cd $HOME && ls -1rt | tail -1 | xargs tail -f  \012"
screen -t TAB2
stuff "cd $HOME && top  \012"

- Run screen -S test -c .screenrc_test

5. Starting screen and detach automatically

screen -S test -dm -c .screenrc_test

Javascript: expand/collapse functionality in a web page

Here is the script to implement expand/collapse functionality in a web page.

Javascript:

function toggle(showHideDiv, switchImgTag) 
{
        var elem = document.getElementById(showHideDiv);
        var imageElem = document.getElementById(switchImgTag);
        if(elem.style.display == "block") {
                elem.style.display = "none";
    imageElem.innerHTML = '';
        }
        else {
                elem.style.display = "block";
                imageElem.innerHTML = '';
        }
}

function Collapse(showHideDiv, switchImgTag) 
{
        var elem = document.getElementById(showHideDiv);
        var imageElem = document.getElementById(switchImgTag);
        
  elem.style.display = "none";
  imageElem.innerHTML = '';
}

function Expand(showHideDiv, switchImgTag) 
{
        var elem = document.getElementById(showHideDiv);
        var imageElem = document.getElementById(switchImgTag);
        
  elem.style.display = "block";
        imageElem.innerHTML = '';
}

function ExpandAll()
{
  var elements = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
  for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) 
  {
      var myname = elements[i].getAttribute("id");
    if(myname != null)
    {
       if(myname.substr(0, 4) == "img-")
     {
      var linkid = myname.substr(4);
      Expand("div-"+ linkid, "img-"+linkid);
     }
    }
  }
  document.getElementById('expand-all').style.display='none';
  document.getElementById('collapse-all').style.display='block';
}

function CollapseAll()
{
  var elements = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
  for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) 
  {
      var myname = elements[i].getAttribute("id");
    if(myname != null)
    {
       if(myname.substr(0, 4) == "img-")
     {
      var linkid = myname.substr(4);
      Collapse("div-"+ linkid, "img-"+linkid);
     }
    }
  }
  document.getElementById('expand-all').style.display='block';
  document.getElementById('collapse-all').style.display='none';
}

Web Page:

Expand All 

Collapse All



Test1



TestID
Description
Actual
Expected
Time Taken
Result
Screen-Shot


Test-01
Test 01
PASS
PASS
 1 sec
Pass
None


Test-01
Test 02
PASS
FAIL
 5 sec
Fail
Click me










Test2



TestID
Description
Actual
Expected
Time Taken
Result
Screen-Shot


Test-01
Test 03
PASS
PASS
 1 sec
Pass
None


Test-01
Test 04
PASS
PASS
 2 sec
Pass
None


Test-01
Test 05
PASS
PASS
 3 sec
Pass
None

Stylesheet:

body, table {
    font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
    font-size: 12;
}

table {
    border-collapse: collapse;
    border: 1px solid #ccc;
}

th, td {
    padding-left: 0.3em;
    padding-right: 0.3em;
}

a {
    text-decoration: none;
}

.title {
    font-style: italic;
}

.selected {
    background-color: #ffffcc;
}

.status_done {
    background-color: #eeffee;
}

.status_passed {
    background-color: #00FF00;
}

.status_failed {
    background-color: #FF0000;
}

.status_notrun {
    background-color: #FFFF00;
}

.status_header {
    background-color: #FFA500;
}

.status_duration {
    background-color: #00FFFF;
}

.breakpoint {
    background-color: #cccccc;
    border: 1px solid black;
}

Selenium: simulating click on GWT buttons

In web applications, buttons which are rendered by GWT (google-web-toolkit) cannot be clicked. Selenium RC doesn't recognize them as HTML button. so following will not work for those type of buttons/element

selenium.click(elementLocator)

After some googling, I found out that we can click on these elements by native key events with follwoing code.

 public static void clickOnGWTPopElement(String elementLocator) {
  try{
   //normal click doesn't work on GWT popup elements so we need to perform native mouse operations
   selenium.mouseOver(elementLocator);
   selenium.mouseDown(elementLocator);
   selenium.mouseUp(elementLocator);
  }catch (Exception e) {
   e.printStackTrace(); 
  }  
 }