Question

I have an app where a user could be looking at 2 possible browser windows / tabs.

If the user is in Window 2 and an event occurs in Window 1, I change the text of the title bar using JQuery Title Alert (https://github.com/heyman/jquery-titlealert) as a way of notifying them that something is going on in Window 1. The title text change will flash until Window 1 is focused.

All this works fine. However, I want to integration test this using capybara and selenium and I’ve hit an interesting problem. While I can switch between windows easily using something like:

      page.driver.browser.switch_to.window(page.driver.browser.window_handles.last)

I want to be able to get the Text of the unfocused window to test that it’s text has changed. Does anyone know how to:

1. Get the titles of all the windows?
2. inspect properties of a window without switching to it / focusing on it?
3. any other way I could approach this problem?

Thanks in advance for the help!

Answer 1

You can use the WebDriverBackedSelenium which has a GetAllWindowTitles(). It should work in Ruby with the latest version 2.19. The following example in C# works.

IWebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
ISelenium browser = new WebDriverBackedSelenium(driver, driver.Url);
browser.Start();

// open a test page and some popup windows
browser.Open(@"Test.html"); // open the main page which has title 'My Main Window'
browser.Click("btnPop1"); // open a popup window with title 'My Popup 1'
browser.Click("btnPop2"); // open a popup window with title 'My Popup 2'

string[] titles = browser.GetAllWindowTitles();
foreach (string title in titles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(title);
}
browser.Close();
Console.ReadLine();

The output is as expected:

My Main Window
My Popup 1
My Popup 2