Problem with waitForPageToLoad("5000")

[Kris]

Hi,

I am using Selenium RC/Java/JUNIT...

In the Login Page.. after entering username and pwd, I will click submit button..It goes to another page with a message "Login Successful".

My problem is that when I click submit button, on faster machine waitForPageToLoad("5000"); works OK..On the slower machine it fails since within 5000 ms it won't load another page. It takes more than 30000 ms. another slowst machines takes atleast 1 minutes or so. I ma fed up with changing waitForPageToLoad time delay for each and every machine...

Is there any solution for me that... "just wait as long as it loads the next page. Don't worry about time delay".

selenium.type("username", "testuser");
selenium.type("password", "testuser");
selenium.click("submit");
selenium.waitForPageToLoad("5000");
assertTrue(selenium.isTextPresent("Login Successful"));

Do you think waitForCondition () does work? If yes, please help how can I use it for above piece of code..

Many Thanks...

[udof]

WaitForPageToLoad stop waiting when the page has loaded. You can use 120000 milliseconds timeout and your test should continue after 2000 milliseconds when the page is loaded in that short time.

Udo

[Kris]

Actually I don't want to increase time delay since it un-necessarily delays the test time for faster machines...

I am looking for something like...

while (text_in_next_page_contains == "some_thing")
{
just wait...
}

[Eric Wendelin]

I think udof is right. waitForPageToLoad("100000") will work for you because selenium should detect the page load and stop waiting. Therefore your faster machines should not be slowed down. Correct me if this is currently not how it's working for you.

-dubness

[Amit Wadhwa]

ideally, waitforpageload() should not wait if the page is loaded, else you can try something like this

while(!selenium.isElementPresent("some element on loaded page")){
if(selenium.isTextPresent("Login failed"){
verifyTrue(false);//test failed
break; //breaks from loop
}
waitforpageload(5000);
}

[Kris]

For some reason this fails..

while(!selenium.isElementPresent("element on current page")){
if(selenium.isTextPresent("test_on_Next_page"){

verifyTrue(false);//test failed
break; //breaks from loop
}
waitforpageload(5000);
}

However, waitForPageLoad(500000); works Ok