IE driver running quite slow.

[Abhishek Bisht]

Hi all

 

I was trying to work with iedriver before with version 24 i had used inbuilt ie driver but now  while using selenium version 32 i am using external ie driver. But its quite slow and its really painful to execute test on IE its seems even manually one can perform test faster than using IE driver.

Does any one has work around or any suggestion so that i can increase my test speed.

 

Thanks

Regards

Abhishek Bisht

[Jim Evans]

I'm going to use my psychic debugging powers to deduce you're using the 64-bit version of IEDriverServer.exe, and you're running against IE10. Use the 32-bit version of IEDriverServer.exe, even if you're using 64-bit Windows. This will be more accurate to what your users will be executing too.

[Chris Merrill]

Interesting, Jim. Is this a documented issue?

I ask because I had the opposite experience. We were using the 32-bit IEDriverServer.exe (because
it runs on both 32- and 64-bit Windows). After upgrading to IE10 on my machine, driving it with
WebDriver was horribly slow. I tried the 64-bit IEDriverServer and the performance was restored.

Chris

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[Jim Evans]

I know there have been issues filed on this in the tracker, but I can't look for them at the moment. Yes, if you're using native events, sendKeys can be incredibly slow using the 64-bit IEDriverServer.exe. Something about the way we are using SendMessage to simulate keystrokes. The alternatives are to use the 32-bit exe, turn off native events, or use the requireWindowFocus capability. Honestly this is the first I've heard perf issues like that with the 32-bit exe.

[Abhishek Bisht]

Hi all

Thanks for suggestion but i already tried with 32 bit as well as 64 bit and i was runnning test for ie9 and ie8 and on both the case ie taking long time to load untill unless i stop page loading webdriver not executing next call and witing for pending navigation. Do i am doing something wrong??

[krzysztof...@opigram.com]

Maybe this will help : http://watirmelon.com/2012/11/13/are-your-ie-webdriver-tests-running-slow-maybe-its-the-screenshots/

[Abhishek Bisht]

The real problem is when ever i am trying to run test its keep on loading the page for few steps it runs fine then its start hanging up i have tried with different iedriver versions also but nothing working for me does any one has any clue why its behaving like that currently i am using
Selenium - 2.33
IE driver - 2.30 , 2.33 , 2.34

[Balaji]

Hi Abhishek, were you able to resolve this issue? I am facing a similar issue. When I run more than 3 IE + IEDriverServer instances, IE hangs. I am using IE 11 and Windows Server 2008.