Question

I’m writing some Selenium tests in Java, and I’m mostly trying to use verifications instead of assertions because the things I’m checking aren’t very dependent so I don’t want to abort if one little thing doesn’t work. One of the things I’d like to keep an eye on is whether certain Drupal pages are taking forever to load. What’s the best way to do that?

Little example of the pattern I’m using.

selenium.open("/m");
selenium.click("link=Android");
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("100000");
if (selenium.isTextPresent("Epocrates")) {
       System.out.println("     Epocrates confirmed");
} else {
       System.out.println("Epocrates failed");
}

Should I have two “waitForPagetoLoad” statements (say, 10000 and 100000) and if the desired text doesn’t show up after the first one, print a statement? That seems clumsy. What I’d like to do is just a line like

if (timeToLoad>10000) System.out.println("Epocrates was slow");

And then keep going to check whether the text was present or not.

Answer 1

waitForPageToLoad will wait until the next page is loaded. So you can just do a start/end timer and do your if:

long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("100000");
long timeToLoad= (System.currentTimeMillis()-start);
if (timeToLoad>10000) System.out.println("Epocrates was slow");