Question

I’m using watir-webdriver for testing.

I seem to be having a rather odd issue where one of my tests passes with google chrome but fails on firefox, I just get a runtime error, doesn’t seem to be any more information than that.

-> Error: An error has occured (RuntimeError)

The function is simply just selecting two options from two input lists

code

def selectSprint(team, sprint)
    @browser.div(:id, "sprintTitle").click  #Navigate to the Team/Sprint drop down boxes
    @browser.div(:id, "teamTitle").wait_until_present
    @browser.div(:id, "teamTitle").select_list(:id, "Select").select("#{team}")  
    @browser.div(:id, "sprintTitle").wait_until_present  #Move to Sprint drop down box  
    @browser.div(:id, "sprintTitle").select_list(:id, "Select").select("#{sprint}")     
    $log.debug("Team and sprint successfully selected")
    @browser.div(:id => "mainBoard").wait_until_present #checks if page has updated
    rescue => e
    puts "Error: #{e}"
    return true
    $log.info("Method "+"#{__method__}"+" has finished ")
    return true
  end

Answer 1

The waiting and existence methods don’t work with Firefox 17, so you’ll have to revert to Firefox 16 for the time being. I’ve heard that an update to watir-webdriver is being released next week to resolve the issues with Firefox 17.