Question

I recorded an action using the Selenium IDE and used the File->Export Test Cases as Python 2 (Remote Control) format.

I am using Selenium RC 2.3.0

I then ran the script from command prompt but it throws an exception.

The exported Python 2 RC code is:

from selenium import selenium
import unittest, time, re

class login(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.verificationErrors = []
        self.selenium = selenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome", "http://testServer1/")
        self.selenium.start()

    def test_login(self):
        sel = self.selenium
        sel.open("/WebAccess/login.html")
        sel.type("id=LoginID", "Administrator")
        sel.type("id=Password", "Administrator")
        sel.click("id=login")
        sel.wait_for_page_to_load("30000")
        sel.click("link=Home") # This is where it fails.

    def tearDown(self):
        self.selenium.stop()
        self.assertEqual([], self.verificationErrors)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()

At this line sel.click("link=Home") it fails with the exception

======================================================================
ERROR: test_login (__main__.login)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\login.py", line 16, in test_log
in
    sel.click("link=Home")
  File "C:\Python27\lib\selenium\selenium.py", line 290, in click
    self.do_command("click", [locator,])
  File "C:\Python27\lib\selenium\selenium.py", line 217, in do_command
    raise Exception, data
Exception: ERROR: Element link=Home not found

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I even tried increasing the 30000 to 60000 but still no help. I can see the page is loaded fully and waiting for a while because of the higher timeout. However when executing this link=Home it fails.

The HTML code is:

<div class="links nopreview">
<span><a class="csiAction" href="/WebAccess/home.html#URL=centric://REFLECTION/INSTANCE/_CS_Data/null">Home</a></span>
<span>&nbsp;•&nbsp;</span>
<span><span><a class="csiAction" href="/WebAccess/home.html#URL=centric://SITEADMIN/_CS_Site">Setup</a>
</span><span>&nbsp;•&nbsp;</span>
</span><span><a title="Sign Out" class="csiAction csiActionLink">Sign Out</a></span>
</div>

The recorded actions using IDE are:

<tr>
    <td>open</td>
    <td>/WebAccess/login.html</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>type</td>
    <td>id=LoginID</td>
    <td>Administrator</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>type</td>
    <td>id=Password</td>
    <td>Administrator</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>clickAndWait</td>
    <td>id=login</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>

<tr>
    <td>click</td>
    <td>link=Home</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>

Answer 1

Try using an XPath such as:

sel.click('//a[contains(text(),"Home")]')