Question

We are currently migrating our automation scripts from Selenium RC to WebDriver. I’ve run into a few issues with WebDriver, mainly dealing with TimeoutExceptions being thrown the instant something in the web page being tested is changed.

For example, I am currently logging in on a page, then clicking a submit button, which redirects to a new page. The instant the click() method is invoked the exception is thrown. However if I stay focused on the password field and use SendKeys(Keys.Enter) the redirect works without any issues.

Has anyone else ran into this? Since the exception is thrown when the click method is invoked, I cannot set any wait or timeout period directly after. I know I can swallow the TimeoutException, but surely there has to be a better solution.

I am using the Firefox driver. I am guessing the issue has something to do with the pages’ source being changed.

Here is the exception:

Here is the click method:

public void ClickByName(string name) 
{ 
    _driver.FindElement(By.Name(name)).Click(); 
}

Answer 1

I put a sleep statement after logging in to the page, before checking for page errors and this fixed the problem, as well as InvalidOperationExceptions being thrown occasionally.