Question

I am getting this error with Django

RuntimeError: Failed to shutdown the live test server in 2 seconds. The server might be stuck or generating a slow response.

I am trying to run a simple test on a menu on my website. The menu is in an accordion style (scroll down to Example under the overview menu. An accordion is the thing in the Demo, where menus appear and disappear according to how you click them: http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Accordion#overview)

When one of the menus open, a text box for searching is present. What I’m trying to do is to press that button, then enter some values and click ‘Enter’ to go see the search results.

CODE

from django.test import LiveServerTestCase
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.webdriver import WebDriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
import time

class SeleniumTests(LiveServerTestCase):
    fixtures = ['testData.json',]

    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        cls.driver = WebDriver()
        super(SeleniumTests, cls).setUpClass()

    @classmethod
    def tearDownClass(cls):
        super(SeleniumTests, cls).tearDownClass()
        cls.driver.quit()

    def test_example(self):

        #load the site 
        self.driver.get('%s%s' % (self.live_server_url, '/testingDB/'))
        #find the accordion button
        elem1 = self.driver.find_element_by_id("search_button")
        #click it
        elem1.click()

        #wait a little bit so the accordion loads 
        self.driver.implicitly_wait(5)
        #could've also used this command ->time.sleep(1)

        #find the element that now appeared
        elem = self.driver.find_element_by_name("q")
        #enter the search query and press enter 
        elem.send_keys("selenium" + Keys.RETURN)
        #assert that a new page loaded, with Search in the title
        assert "Search" in self.driver.title

The test works great, but Django gives me the error. If I shorten the time too much, then selenium won’t be able to find the search box, and it claims

Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with

I don’t know how to avoid the live test server error. (Django information obtained from https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/#django.test.LiveServerTestCase )

Additional Information

This is the menu:

Part 1

Then click ‘Search’ and the below appears in about 0.5 seconds.

Part 2

Answer 1

The error you are seeing is associated with the clean-up code found in SeleniumTests.tearDownClass(cls). Within that method, if you call cls.driver.quit() before you call super(SeleniumTests, cls).tearDownClass() the error will go away.