Typing empty strings is broken with new Selenium dependency about xebium

[amolenaar]

It's not clear to me what the issue is.

[bvklingeren]

Well, if you want to remove the hello string that is printed in an editable textbox (like in the example), it will not do that any more with the new Selenium version.

[amolenaar]

If I understand well, this test case should exhibit the issue:

| script | selenium driver fixture |
| set step delay to | slow |
| start browser | firefox | on url | http://localhost:${FITNESSE_PORT}/ |
| ensure | do | open | on | /ProjectXebium.ExampleSuite.BasicFixtureExample?searchForm |
| ensure | do | type | on | searchString | with | blah |
| ensure | do | verifyValue | on | searchString | with | blah |
| ensure | do | type | on | searchString | with ||
| ensure | do | verifyValue | on | searchString | with | |
| stop browser |

But I think I can't reproduce it. Am I missing something here?

[bvklingeren]

Have you tried it without the step delay set to slow? Apart from that
the setup seems the same as I had.

2011/6/30 amolenaar
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If I understand well, this test case should exhibit the issue:

| script | selenium driver fixture |
| set step delay to | slow |
| start browser  | firefox  | on url  | http://localhost:${FITNESSE_PORT}/ |
| ensure | do | open | on | /ProjectXebium.ExampleSuite.BasicFixtureExample?searchForm |
| ensure | do | type | on | searchString | with | blah |
| ensure | do | verifyValue | on | searchString | with | blah |
| ensure | do | type | on | searchString | with ||
| ensure | do | verifyValue | on | searchString | with | |
| stop browser |

But I think I can't reproduce it. Am I missing something here?

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[bvklingeren]

I think I got it!

Let's try it with a textarea:

| script | selenium driver fixture |
| set step delay to | slow |
| start browser | firefox | on url | http://localhost:${FITNESSE_PORT}/ |
| ensure | do | open | on | /ProjectXebium.ExampleSuite.BasicFixtureExample?searchForm |
| ensure | do | type | on | Suites | with | blah |
| ensure | do | verifyValue | on | Suites | with | blah |
| ensure | do | type | on | Suites | with ||
| ensure | do | verifyValue | on | Suites | with | |
| ensure | do | type | on | Suites | with |blah2|
| ensure | do | verifyValue | on | Suites | with |blah2 |
| stop browser |

You will see that the test passes but the result in the textarea is blahblah2. Apparently there are now 2 issues: removing text from a textarea is not possible anymore and the verify value command checks old data, which causes the test to pass.

[amolenaar]

Indeed. It works fine with remote server, but in the WebDriver version something changed over the last weeks.

Raised an issue with Selenium: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=1982

[bvklingeren]

I urge everybody who is experiencing these problems to 'star' the selenium issue (http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=1982) so it will get more attention.

[bvklingeren]

The problem is known to be persistent with the newer versions of Selenium up until version 2.7

[cwortel]

The problem persists with 2.14 and the sample test also exposed some other unexpected behaviour:

| verifyValue | Suites | blah2 |
INFO com.xebia.incubator.xebium.SeleniumDriverFixture - Command 'getValue' returned 'blahblah2' => ok
INFO com.xebia.incubator.xebium.SeleniumDriverFixture - Command processor stopped

It seems getValue is succeeds with only part of the value being correct (it accepts blah2 to be correct, even-though the actual value is "blahblah2")

[amolenaar]

Fixed in upcoming Selenium 2.20 release.