InternetExplorerDriver don't wait for page to load after get(url)

[Alexei Barantsev]

Hi, 

I was going to retest http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=1318 in 2.0b3, but have found even worse problem.

1. When I run the same piece of code as present in #1318, I get NPE in line

    WebElement form = browser.findElements(By.tagName("form")).get(1);

I've run code in debugger, and found that selenium don't wait for page to load in previous line

    browser.get("http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/forms/index_famsupp_1.html");

and tries to find elements while page is not loaded yet.

But that's not the only problem!

2. I've added Thread.sleep(10000) after get(url) to wait for page explicitly -- and NPE is still here!

After short exploration I've found that findElements just returns null everytime, even if I call browser.findElements(By.tagName("body")) or browser.findElements(By.xpath("//body")).

Call to browser.findElement(By.tagName("body")) or browser.findElement(By.xpath("//body")) gives the following stack trace:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Unable to find element with tag name == body (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.6.0_24'

Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:131)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:105)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:409)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:192)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElementByTagName(RemoteWebDriver.java:233)

at org.openqa.selenium.By$5.findElement(By.java:178)

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:184)

at demo.Experiment.main(Experiment.java:21)

I've checked IE8 and IE9 (both on Windows 7), selenium 2.0b3 and trunk -- with the same result.

What's that? Do anybody have success with IE?

Regards,

Alexei Barantsev

Software-Testing.Ru

[Jim Evans]

I have translated the code in the bug report to C#, and run the test
successfully without modification. I did not have to add additional
waits or synchronization code. I've run the test on Windows 7 x64 with
IE8; I've not tried IE9. Have you made sure that the Protected Mode
settings of IE are set correctly for use with the IE driver (Tools >
Internet Options... > Security tab > Enable Protected Mode checkbox,
must be set to the same value for all zones)?

--Jim

On Apr 12, 4:36 pm, Alexei Barantsev <baran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>

> I was going to retesthttp://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=1318in 2.0b3, but have

> org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:1­31)
> at
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.­java:105)
> at
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:409­)
> at
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java­:192)
> at
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElementByTagName(RemoteWebDr­iver.java:233)

[Alexei Barantsev]

Have you made sure that the Protected Mode 
settings of IE are set correctly for use with the IE driver (Tools > 
Internet Options... > Security tab > Enable Protected Mode checkbox, 
must be set to the same value for all zones)? 

Aha! That helped, thank you!

Regards,

-- 

Alexei Barantsev.

Software-Testing.Ru