Question

I am testing a web app where i delete an item from a list. Upon clicking on delete, the app asks for confirmation. Selenium IDE detects it as a confirmation box. When I run the code thro’ the RC (C#), it even catches the confirmation-box, executes the click of delete button on that confirmation box, but, the confirmation box is never visible on the screen. Further, it only clicks on the delete button; the item doesn’t get deleted. I tried it manually, works fine.

Please help, I’m new to Selenium and tried to find the answers at multiple forums without any success.

Here’s the code:

string confirmation;
for (int second = 0;; second++) {
    if (second >= 60) Assert.Fail("timeout");
    try
    {
        confirmation=selenium.GetConfirmation();

        if ((confirmation == " Delete confirmation message")) break;

    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        PrintLog("Error while waiting for confirmation. Error: "+e.Message);
    }
    Thread.Sleep(1000);
}           

try
{
    Assert.IsTrue(confirmation == "Delete confirmation message");
}
catch (AssertionException e)
{
    PrintLog(e.Message);
}

selenium.FireEvent("//a[@id='btnOkConfirm']","click");

After the last statement, the selected item must get deleted and page should refresh, but, nothing happens. All I can see is “Javascript:;” written in the status bar of the firefox window. I guess its problematic to get javascript hrefs working in selenium-rc.
Thanks,
Vamyip

Answer 1

Lately, I’ve discovered that this behavior is occurring due to the architecture of selenium(more precisely, its javascript based core). when I do the test manually, keeping the selenium IDE open, this behavior is replicated. So, I think there’s no immediate solution to this problem right now. Will post here if I find a workaround.

Thanks to Dave for replying.

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Update: The development team informed me that a javascript function is not being called with selenium IDE running alongside. This indeed is a problem with Selenium’s Javascript core.

Thanks to everybody who took time to respond to this question.

Regards,
Vamyip