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Aditya Ivaturi  
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From: Aditya Ivaturi <ivat...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:44:55 -0800 (PST)
Local: Fri, Dec 11 2009 4:44 pm
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I originally posted this on the user forum but my question might be
more appropriate here:

The XPath evaluation on IE (all versions) is excruciatingly slow (at
least for me) when using RC. I searched the forums & there were
suggestion to switch to "javascript-xpath". I did, but it didn't help
at all, well it did but the improvement in speed was for all practical
purpose useless. So I downloaded the javascript-xpath library from the
authors site http://coderepos.org/share/wiki/JavaScript-XPath and
manually inserted it in to the web page of interest & ran my xpath
queries. Surprise, it was blazingly fast - I mean there was absolutely
no comparison!

So my question is very simple - is RC doing something special with
this javascript-xpath library? I am using the Perl driver if that
matters. Why is it so excruciatingly slow in Selenium & blazingly fast
outside? I even checked the version of the library & Selenium is
indeed using the latest available (well it's been the latest for a
while now). So any suggestions as to what is going on? Thanks.


 
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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:33:45 -0800
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Subject: Re: [selenium-developers] javascript-xpath & IE
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I believe what you are experiencing is difference in speed when the
xpath is being evaluated from a different windows. Apparently the
cross-window talk slows it down big time :(


 
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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:46:41 -0800
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If your application is not a 'frame-busting' one that changes window.top or
window.parent, you  can run your selenium RC test using single-window mode
(command line flag: -singleWindow, I believe), which eliminates much of the
slowdown.  I don't necessarily think that is will be as blazingly fast as
'outside', although if you're willing to provide numbers we'd love to have
them :)

-Jen

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:42:38 -0800
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Hi Everyone:

We did primary research on Selenium playing tests of Ajax application  
in IE and Firefox. The performance stinks. 30 seconds in Firefox, 30  
minutes in IE. I presented the findings at The Server Side Symposium  
last Spring. The slides and recommended mitigation is at: http://downloads.pushtotest.com/200903/TSS_PushToTest_RIA.pdf

-Frank

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Aditya Ivaturi  
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:21:05 -0800 (PST)
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> you  can run your selenium RC test using single-window mode
> (command line flag: -singleWindow, I believe), which eliminates much of the
> slowdown.

It does, actually I see a significant improvement & I can have tests
finish in this lifetime ;). Anyhoo, I am going to collect some numbers
on different options & may be try to find where the bottleneck is.
Thanks.

 
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Does anyone know if the new WebDriver core will solve this problem for
Selenium?

Also, can you specify single-window mode from the test script?  Or must it
be specified when you start Sel-RC Server?  About 10% of my tests involve
multiple windows but if I could specify it for my single window tests I'd
still gain a significant performance improvement.

I've had this problem also for sometime and have just "put up with it" due
to lack of time but I'd love to have a solution.

             Jennifer Bevan                                                
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If your application is not a 'frame-busting' one that changes window.top or
window.parent, you  can run your selenium RC test using single-window mode
(command line flag: -singleWindow, I believe), which eliminates much of the
slowdown.  I don't necessarily think that is will be as blazingly fast as
'outside', although if you're willing to provide numbers we'd love to have
them :)

-Jen

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Patrick Lightbody <patr...@lightbody.net>
wrote:
  I believe what you are experiencing is difference in speed when the
  xpath is being evaluated from a different windows. Apparently the
  cross-window talk slows it down big time :(

  On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Aditya Ivaturi <ivat...@gmail.com>

  wrote:

  > I originally posted this on the user forum but my question might be
  > more appropriate here:
  >
  > The XPath evaluation on IE (all versions) is excruciatingly slow (at
  > least for me) when using RC. I searched the forums & there were
  > suggestion to switch to "javascript-xpath". I did, but it didn't help
  > at all, well it did but the improvement in speed was for all practical
  > purpose useless. So I downloaded the javascript-xpath library from the
  > authors site http://coderepos.org/share/wiki/JavaScript-XPath and
  > manually inserted it in to the web page of interest & ran my xpath
  > queries. Surprise, it was blazingly fast - I mean there was absolutely
  > no comparison!
  >
  > So my question is very simple - is RC doing something special with
  > this javascript-xpath library? I am using the Perl driver if that
  > matters. Why is it so excruciatingly slow in Selenium & blazingly fast
  > outside? I even checked the version of the library & Selenium is
  > indeed using the latest available (well it's been the latest for a
  > while now). So any suggestions as to what is going on? Thanks.
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Jennifer Bevan  
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From: Jennifer Bevan <jennifer.be...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:02:28 -0800
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We've put the hooks in for in-test control of multi- vs. single-window mode
into the Java RC client, and possibly (I'd have to check) the Python RC
client, but you said "test script" -- are you using the HTML tests?  If so,
I believe you'd have to use the command-line flag  "-singleWindow", at least
for the time being.

As far as the Webdriver core's impact goes, the hypothesis is that it will
help, although we do not yet know how much.  The discussion so far has
basically been to continue with the webdriver integration into Selenium 2.0
and then see what remains to be done to make the multi- vs. single- window
performance more comparable.

-Jen


 
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:52:23 -0800 (PST)
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>  I am going to collect some numbers

I have couple of more questions:

1) Is there any option within the Selenium server (or in the RC
client) that spits out the time it takes for a command to execute? I
turned on the debug option and there was a lot of info, but nothing
related to execution time of a command. So if there is none, I am
thinking of probably putting in some hooks in the core to capture that
info for me. From a simple perusal, it seems selenium-executionloop.js
might be a good place. Am I looking at the right place?

2) I originally posted this question in response to Patrick's comment
but for some reason the post didn't show up. May be I never hit the
submit button. According to Patrick - "Apparently the cross-window
talk slows it down big time". What I wanted to ask was - why is it not
a problem in FF? Is it because FF has inbuilt XPath evaluator & you
don't have to send data back & forth? If that is correct, then that
means the driver window (in case of IE) requests the HTML from the
target window & processes the XPath (since it has the external XPath
library) & this "chatter" causes the delay? Is that correct?

--aditya


 
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Hi Aditya:

For #1 I recommend you try running your Selenium tests in TestMaker.  
The SeleniumRC Script Runner in TestMaker tracks test and command-
level execution time. It also data enables the scripts to get  
operational test data from a CSV file and relational database.  
TestMaker provides dozens of reports to correlate the Selenium command  
performance to overall scalability in your application. Details at http://www.pushtotest.com/products

-Frank

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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:14:55 -0800 (PST)
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> For #1 I recommend you try running your Selenium tests in TestMaker.  

Frank - Thanks for the link, but looks like this is a test harness for
your selenium scripts. We have built a whole framework on top of
Selenium for our testing & I was feeling lazy to go through the whole
setup.

Regardless, I was looking in the right place to get the command
execution time. All I did was put in an extra statement in the
_executeCurrentCommand function prototype to add "info" for each
command execution & enable -browserSideLog while starting selenium-
server. This gave me numbers for each command that was executing.

The example command I looked at was - getXpathCount (which we use
heavily in our testing). And since I was running this on my local
laptop with all the crap (read antivirus et.al), for fairness sake
(not statistically valid though) I did three runs for -singleWindow &
the regular dual window option for IE.

XPath query I used - //table[@class='tblList'] -  and getXpathCount
will return the count as 17. And in IE with respective options, here
are the execution times in Selenium:

singleWindow - 998ms, 1047ms, 1015ms
dual Window - 54419ms, 55155ms, 57405ms

And using the javascript-xpath library directly on the HTML page in IE
the time it took to parse the same query - 15ms, 21ms, 13ms.

As you can see (from my rather crude experiment), the singleWindow
option in IE actually gives a significant improvement in performance
of XPath processing in IE & the direct use of javascript-xpath is
indeed balzingly fast.

So can any one shed any more light on what is that "chatter" in
Selenium that is slowing things down so much for IE?


 
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Thanks Jen,

yes, I meant Sel-RC-Java 'test scripts' as actual test programs written in
Java.  I couldn't remember if those 'hooks' could be put in on a per-test
bases.

tnx.

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We've put the hooks in for in-test control of multi- vs. single-window mode
into the Java RC client, and possibly (I'd have to check) the Python RC
client, but you said "test script" -- are you using the HTML tests?  If so,
I believe you'd have to use the command-line flag  "-singleWindow", at
least for the time being.

As far as the Webdriver core's impact goes, the hypothesis is that it will
help, although we do not yet know how much.  The discussion so far has
basically been to continue with the webdriver integration into Selenium 2.0
and then see what remains to be done to make the multi- vs. single- window
performance more comparable.

-Jen

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  Does anyone know if the new WebDriver core will solve this problem for
  Selenium?

  Also, can you specify single-window mode from the test script? Or must it
  be specified when you start Sel-RC Server? About 10% of my tests involve
  multiple windows but if I could specify it for my single window tests I'd
  still gain a significant performance improvement.

  I've had this problem also for sometime and have just "put up with it"
  due to lack of time but I'd love to have a solution.

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   selenium-developers@googlegroups.com                                    

  If your application is not a 'frame-busting' one that changes window.top
  or window.parent, you  can run your selenium RC test using single-window
  mode (command line flag: -singleWindow, I believe), which eliminates much
  of the slowdown.  I don't necessarily think that is will be as blazingly
  fast as 'outside', although if you're willing to provide numbers we'd
  love to have them :)

  -Jen

  On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Patrick Lightbody <patr...@lightbody.net

  > wrote:

        I believe what you are experiencing is difference in speed when the
        xpath is being evaluated from a different windows. Apparently the
        cross-window talk slows it down big time :(

        On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Aditya Ivaturi <ivat...@gmail.com>
        wrote:
        > I originally posted this on the user forum but my question might
        be
        > more appropriate here:
        >
        > The XPath evaluation on IE (all versions) is excruciatingly slow
        (at
        > least for me) when using RC. I searched the forums & there were
        > suggestion to switch to "javascript-xpath". I did, but it didn't
        help
        > at all, well it did but the improvement in speed was for all
        practical
        > purpose useless. So I downloaded the javascript-xpath library
        from the
        > authors site http://coderepos.org/share/wiki/JavaScript-XPath and
        > manually inserted it in to the web page of interest & ran my
        xpath
        > queries. Surprise, it was blazingly fast - I mean there was
        absolutely
        > no comparison!
        >
        > So my question is very simple - is RC doing something special
        with
        > this javascript-xpath library? I am using the Perl driver if that
        > matters. Why is it so excruciatingly slow in Selenium & blazingly
        fast
        > outside? I even checked the version of the library & Selenium is
        > indeed using the latest available (well it's been the latest for
        a
        > while now). So any suggestions as to what is going on? Thanks.
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Santiago Suarez Ordoñez  
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From: Santiago Suarez Ordoñez <santi...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:34:40 -0200
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> yes, I meant Sel-RC-Java 'test scripts' as actual test programs written in
> Java. I couldn't remember if those 'hooks' could be put in on a per-test
> bases.

AFAIK they can't. Would need a modified version of the Sever and and libs if
I'm correct (which I have no doubt that the googlers can do pretty easily).
Jen, do you know in detail how is that done? In case you have a patched
version of the server, is there a chance your team could spend the time
needed to contribute that back to Selenium 1.0? The functionality is
valuable, and I have no doubt Selenium 1.0 will coexist with 2.0 much longer
than what we'd like.

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Simon, can you please answer Paul's questions?

"Does anyone know if the new WebDriver core will solve this problem
for
Selenium? "

~ T


 
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Will Selenium 2 fix this problem? It may if you're using the
webdriver-backed selenium, it won't if you continue to use the pure JS
multi-window Selenium implementation.

Although it may not be very useful to you, I do advise teams to avoid using
xpath unless absolutely necessary, partly because the performance on IE will
always be sub-optimal because it doesn't have an xpath engine that runs over
HTML, and so it must always be simulated using IE's (relatively slow)
javascript engine.

Regards,

Simon

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The way to control the single- vs. multi-window aspect from a java client is
to use the BrowserConfigurationOptions class:
http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/selenium/src/java/com/though...

Make one of these, call .setSingleWindow() on it, and pass it as an argument
to start().  I hope that helps,

-Jen

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Aditya Ivaturi  
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> xpath unless absolutely necessary, partly because the performance on IE will
> always be sub-optimal because it doesn't have an xpath engine that runs over
> HTML, and so it must always be simulated using IE's (relatively slow)
> javascript engine.

Well, this is something that I am unable to wrap my head around & one
of the reasons to start this thread. If you see my comment with the
numbers I posted, simulated XPath using IE's javascript engine wasn' t
"that" slow when used directly. i.e. if I run javascript-xpath on an
HTML page directly (outside of Selenium) the numbers were rather
surprisingly fast. But inside Selenium it becomes exponentially slow.

And I asked this question before & hopefully some one can answer it -
why is it so slow inside Selenium - be it singleWindow or dual window?


 
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Patrick Lightbody  
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Aditya,
How are you running the xpath expressions "directly (outside of
Selenium)"? We may be comparing apples and oranges here...

Patrick


 
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Aditya Ivaturi  
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> How are you running the xpath expressions "directly (outside of
> Selenium)"? We may be comparing apples and oranges here...

 In the HTML page I include the javascript-xpath library & then I
evaluate XPath on page load using a function call.

 
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Have you tried the various XPath libraries? I forget the exact
details, but I know there at least 2 (and maybe 3) different
libraries. I'd make sure that the one you're including is the same one
that Selenium is indeed using.


 
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Aditya Ivaturi  
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> Have you tried the various XPath libraries? I forget the exact
> details, but I know there at least 2 (and maybe 3) different
> libraries. I'd make sure that the one you're including is the same one
> that Selenium is indeed using.

As far as I know (at least based on the Perl driver's POD) there are 3
options that can be used - default, ajaxslt & javascript-xpath.
"default" option loads the Google's ajaxslt & javascript-xpath uses
Cybozu Labs' library. Google's ajaxslt is definitely slower than
javascript-xpath and so I did my testing with javascript-xpath. I used
the copy that is distributed with the RC & is located in core/xpath of
the slenium-server.jar file. BTW, it is the same version that can also
be found at the original author's site
http://svn.coderepos.org/share/lang/javascript/javascript-xpath/trunk...
(v0.1.11).

 
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Patrick Lightbody  
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OK, cool - then it sounds like you've explored all the different
avenues. I guess the only next step is for you to get us a simple test
case that demonstrates the slow times in Selenium and fast times when
invoked by clicking on a button. Is that something you might be able
to put together?

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Aditya Ivaturi  
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:41:15 -0800 (PST)
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> OK, cool - then it sounds like you've explored all the different
> avenues. I guess the only next step is for you to get us a simple test
> case that demonstrates the slow times in Selenium and fast times when
> invoked by clicking on a button. Is that something you might be able
> to put together?

I think I can do that, but I'll have to get to it next week - I am on
vacation from today afternoon.

 
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> OK, cool - then it sounds like you've explored all the different
> avenues. I guess the only next step is for you to get us a simple test
> case that demonstrates the slow times in Selenium and fast times when
> invoked by clicking on a button. Is that something you might be able
> to put together?

I have a test page ready to demonstrate it. Where can I upload it?

 
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Easiest thing is to open a bug on code.google.com and attach it, then
shoot us a note once you've done so.

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From: Aditya Ivaturi <ivat...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:40:25 -0800 (PST)
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> Easiest thing is to open a bug on code.google.com and attach it, then
> shoot us a note once you've done so.

Filed the bug:  http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=307

If you need any further instructions, please let me know.


 
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