C# Selenium test with upload file on TeamCity Agent

[Annie Costa]

Hi all,

I know my question is not Specflow specific but I hope that one of us was on my situation and found a solution to it.

Here is my case:
  I have a test case in which I have to upload a file to a website thanks to a native upload popup ( in attachment).

We are using the SendKeys.SendWait available in the System.Windows.Forms library to do that.
Locally, there is no problem, it is working nicelly.

But when the same test is executed on the TeamCity's agent... nothing happens! :(
The file is not upload at all! :(

I found some "old" blog explaining that the problem is the System.Windows.Forms library and propose to use the SendKey available in the IWebElement directly on the element:
   string filePath = @"drive:\path\filename.filextension";
    driver.FindElement(By.Id("fileInput")).SendKeys(filePath);

The problem is that I'm not able to make it work even locally...
I used Selenium IDE to find the Id of the element ( in my case it was "filepicker_2") but the displayed attribute of this element is "false"... and so I'm not able to interact with it...

I really don't know of to make it work fine on both environment (Locally and TeamCity's agent)..

Please someone to help me?

Thanks a lot

[abhijit apte]

I hope you are executing team city agent as a command line instead of windows service.

I have used autoit scripts in past to perform file upload.

You can use JavaScript executor to manipulate the text setting to given element.

Thanks
Abhijit
Please ignore typos if any

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Thanks,

Abhijit Apte

[Annie Costa]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

Our agent are Windows services... is it the reason why it is not working?

What is the difference between executive them as windiws service or as command line?

[abhijit apte]

In Teamcity documentation, They have advised to use run the agent as console application if you are running automation against GUI or browser. 

https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD10/Known+Issues

I have seen the similar case( File upload)  in past and which was resolved after we started agent using console. 

We used AutoIt script for the file upload for our selenium script. 

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Thanks,

Abhijit Apte