Question

it’s been a long time 🙂

I’m still with my learning of Selenium RC and I’m using the http://www.irishtimes.com as my tested application.

I have a very tiny test case that consists of these steps:

Selenium selenium;

public void setUp() throws Exception {
    super.setUp();

    selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost",
            SELENIUM_PORT,
            "*firefox",
            "http://www.irishtimes.com/");

    setUp("http://www.irishtimes.com/", "*firefox");
}
public void testTCNewspapers() throws Exception {
    selenium.start();
    selenium.open("http://www.irishtimes.com/");
    selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
    selenium.click("link=Life");

    //Doesn't work
    //verifyEquals("The Irish Times - Life", sel.getTitle());

}

When executing the verifyEquals I’m getting this error:

java.lang.AssertionError: java.lang.AssertionError: Expected "The Irish Times - Life" but saw "The Irish Times – Irish News, Business News, Sports News & Ireland Weather Online" instead

at com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleneseTestBase.fail(SeleneseTestBase.java:356)

I don’t understand why this is happening since the title of the page is “The Irish Times – Life”

From the source html file:

<title>The Irish Times - Life</title>

Any help on resolving this? Thanks 😉

Answer 1

Selenium doesn’t wait for the new page to load after sending ‘click’.

Try using ‘clickAndWait’ – that should cause Selenium to wait for a response from the server before continuing.