Recent changes to support-requests

skipAlert in new IE7 style. :(

Stephen Newton — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:05:47 -0000

Hi,

I've downloaded the new IEUnit and finally given in and install IE 7 on my machine. However I have a problem and I don't understand why my work around didn't work either.

The product I'm testing doesn't have a valid https certificate so we get a Certificate Error when first opening the UI.

Before we just used the skipAlert and it was all happy.

IE 7 however doesn't give us an alert popup it gives us a Certificate Error page.

Initially I thought, fine I'll just

_.findWindow("Certificate Error")
_.clickByText("Continue to this website")

and it'll be fine. But that doesn't work either.

I need to code my script to cope with both IE6 and 7 as we claim to support both and I don't want to maintain two sets of scripts.

So I have two queries

1, Is there a way to read what version of IE is being run so I can switch the scripts appropriately?

2, How do I get around the Certificate Error page?

Thanks.

mouseMoveTo?

Stephen Newton — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:50:09 -0000

Hi, I need a simple way to move the mouse out of the way during the script. I was hoping to use mouseMoveTo but I can't seem to get it to move the mouse. I've tried something like

var testWin = _.findWindow("Microsoft Internet Explorer");
testWin.MoveMouseTo(0,0);

Taking my lead from the mousetest.jst in the win32dom samples. But all I get it "Object doesn't support this property or method"

I've tried various different options, but obviously not the rigth one.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Closing all IE windows

Stephen Newton — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:01:48 -0000

I have a problem with some of our tests to be sorted
out later. But the tests can leave IE windows open
without sensible titles, making it very difficult to
find or close them.

The safest way would be for us to stop/kill any
iexplorer.exe services running.

I've been looking around but can't figure how to do
this. Do you have any ideas on how I might be able to
accomplish stopping all iexplorere.exe services.

Thank you.

Changing IE Options

Stephen Newton — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:22:12 -0000

Hi,

I know you have given as the very usefull method of
accessing the IE config panel and clearing the caches.
I've started looking at extending this to be able to
change other settings on the fly.

Particularly I need to be able to set/unset/change the
proxy settings so I can test against different proxy
setups.

I've just started looking at this and my first attempts
have failed to click tabs, then I'll need to set/uset
checkboxes and input fields. I'm going to struggle on a
bit with this. In the mean time is there any pointers
or advice you can give me to help.

Thanks.

Passing pararmeters to scripts

Stephen Newton — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:24:07 -0000

I have a difficult problem to overcome.

I have a single test driver (for the time being no
one will pay out for another one) this machine is
expected to run tests against two systems.

Using Remote desktop and ANT I can do this. The
problem is that currently the IeUnit tests rely on a
common variables file that includes details such as
the machine under test IP and type. The problem is
that by keeping the tests common for both systems and
reduce the amount of test maintenance the same common
file is called for both systems, a lot of the tests
are run against both systems. I need someway of
starting the tests and telling them they are against
different systems.

This would ideally be achieved by passing a variable
to the tests from the cscript command line that runs
all of the tests in a directory.

Is there anyway that you can think of that I can do
this or is there something that you could do to help
me. Thanks.

Reading the address bar

Stephen Newton — Thu, 25 May 2006 13:57:48 -0000

We have a need to read the Address bar for the URL in
it.

I've tried

var URL = _.win.parent.location.href
and

var URL = _.win.location.href

with and with out trailing () all return 'Permission
denied'.

Do you have any idea how I might be able to do this.
in IeUnit.

Thanks

IE 7

Stephen Newton — Wed, 10 May 2006 11:54:00 -0000

I have a collegue who is brave enough to try the
Microsoft IE 7 beta. Unfortunately this has caused him
some problems in his test environment. Pirmarily around
IeUnit.

Has anyone tried IeUnit with IE 7 yet and if so did you
have difficulties.

The first thing we are seeing is that IeUnit does not
start a web page, and doesn't throw an error saying it
couldn't create and instance of explorer. The first
error is the first action on the web page fails as it
can't find the object on the web page (that doesn't exist).

Secondly all of the file associations to IE 7 desktop
links are lost when IeUnit is started. He has to
restart his PC to get them back.

Thanks.

Marking tests not to be run

Stephen Newton — Tue, 02 May 2006 15:39:11 -0000

Is it possible somehow to mark a test not to be run.

We have our IeUnit tests on the back of the build now
so everytime we build all of the latest tests are
pulled from subversion and run. We pull all so that
the build script doesn't have to be maintained and
tests can be added without updateing anyone or
various batch files and ANT scripts.

Obviously there are some tests still being developed
or improved each nigth and may not be clean, also the
occasional test inplace ahead of the product.

The developers have a way of marking a test not to be
run in the JUnit and NUnit tests. It would be nice to
be able to do this in IeUnit.

Thanks.

Accessing an element of type file

Stephen Newton — Tue, 02 May 2006 09:32:43 -0000

I am having trouble understanding how to access an
input field of type file.

The input field has a browse button and a text field.
You can either fill in a location directly or use the
browse button to find the file you want to access.

The html for this input is

We have functions for setting an input field that
finds the id $logo but doesn't seem to fill in the
field.

This is now holding up two other testers in our team
so I'm being bombarded with questions.

Your help is appreciated, thanks.

Access the IE toolbar buttons

Stephen Newton — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:14:44 -0000

One of our manual tests we are automating requires the
user to click the 'Back' button in IE and check that
information remains in wizards.

How do I access these buttons or perform this sort of
task.

Thanks