GebSpec ElementNotVisibleException is being thrown from the wrong driver!

[Manny Rodriguez]

I have read most of the (excellent) Geb documentation and have been familiarizing myself with the Geb API with examples that just run as main production code, completely outside the scope of any unit tests. I am now trying to familiarize myself with the Geb-Spock API so that I can write functional/UAT tests. Here is all my code:

  // Basic project structure (built w/ Gradle):

  geb-sandbox/

    src/

      main/

        groovy/

          sandbox.geb/

            GoogleHomepage.groovy

            GoogleSearchResultsPage.groovy

      test/

        groovy/

          sandbox.geb/

            MyFirstGebSpec.groovy

        resources/

          GebConfig.groovy

    build.gradle

  // Snippet from build.gradle:

  task firefoxTest(type: Test) {

      reports {

          html.destination = reporting.file('build/reports/tests')

      }

      outputs.upToDateWhen { false }

      systemProperty "geb.build.reportsDir", reporting.file('build/reports/geb')

      systemProperty "geb.build.reportsDir", 'firefox'

  }

  // GebConfig.groovy

  import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver

  waiting {

      timeout = 5

  }

  environments {

      firefox {

          driver = {

              new FirefoxDriver()

          }

      }

  }

  baseUrl = 'http://google.com'

  // GoogleHomepage.groovy:

  class GoogleHomepage extends Page {

      static url = 'http://google.com'

      static at = {

          title == 'Google'

      }

      static content = {

          search {

              $('input', name: 'q')

          }

          searchButton {

              $('button', name: 'btnG')

          }

      }

  }

  // GoogleSearchResultsPage.groovy:

  class GoogleSearchResultsPage extends Page {

      static at = {

          title == 'gmail - Google Search'

      }

      static content = {

          firstLink {

              $('h3.r > a')[0]

          }

      }

  }

  // MyFirstGebSpec.groovy:

  class MyFirstGebSpec extends GebSpec {

      void 'we can get to the gmail signin page'() {

          when:

          to GoogleHomepage

          search().value('gmail')

          searchButton.click()

          waitFor {

              at(GoogleSearchResultsPage)

          }

          firstLink.click()

          waitFor {

              at(GmailLandingPage)

          }

          signinLink.click()

          then:

          at GmailLandingPage

      }

  }

When I run ./gradlew firefoxTest, I get the following build error:

  :compileJava UP-TO-DATE

  :compileGroovy UP-TO-DATE

  :processResources UP-TO-DATE

  :classes UP-TO-DATE

  :compileTestJava UP-TO-DATE

  :compileTestGroovy

  :processTestResources

  :testClasses

  :firefoxTest

  sandbox.geb.MyFirstGebSpec > we can get to the gmail signin page FAILED

      org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException at MyFirstGebSpec.groovy:38

  1 test completed, 1 failed

  :firefoxTest FAILED

  FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

When I look at the test report, I see an actual stacktrace:

  org.openqa.selenium.ElementNotVisibleException: You may only interact with visible elements

  Build info: version: '2.53.0', revision: '35ae25b1534ae328c771e0856c93e187490ca824', time: '2016-03-15 10:43:46'

  System info: host: 'BLAH', ip: 'BLAH', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.10.5', java.version: '1.8.0_45'

  Driver info: driver.version: unknown

  at org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitWebElement.verifyCanInteractWithElement(HtmlUnitWebElement.java:282)

  at org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitWebElement.click(HtmlUnitWebElement.java:142)

  at geb.navigator.NonEmptyNavigator.click(NonEmptyNavigator.groovy:463)

  at geb.content.TemplateDerivedPageContent.click(TemplateDerivedPageContent.groovy:73)

  at sandbox.geb.MyFirstGebSpec.we can get to the gmail signin page(MyFirstGebSpec.groovy:38)

Obviously BLAH is not the actual value for my host/IP :-)

MyFirstGebSpec line 38 is this line:

  searchButton.click()

It's interesting to me that I'm specifying Firefox as the driver but the HTMLUnit driver is somehow being selected. Perhaps I'm configuring something wrong and the default is HTMLUnit? Anybody know why this search button isn't visible? Thanks!

[Brian Kotek]

Do you actually have HTMLUnit also set up as a task and driver option in your Gradle build script?

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[Manny Rodriguez]

Thanks @brian428, no I don't have HTMLUnit set up as a task/driver option in build.gradle but I a bringing it in as a dependency ('org.seleniumhq.selenium:htmlunit-driver:2.21'), even though I'm not currently using it anywhere. I had previously tinkered around with it but have since then removed any code that uses it. Thoughts?

[Brian Kotek]

Not much to offer, other than it sounds like an issue with your Gradle script rather than an issue with Geb.

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[Marcin Erdmann]

In your build.gradle, instead of:

systemProperty "geb.build.reportsDir", 'firefox'

You should use:

systemProperty "geb.env", 'firefox'

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[Manny Rodriguez]

Thanks @Marcin - that was a copy-n-paste error on my end - your suggestion worked marvelously! Thanks again!