Ok, I think I may have found the problem. It appears that goBack does not always allow time for the DOM to be fully constructed[1].
If I place a pause of 250 ms AFTER a call to goBack, the test never fails[2]. If I remove the pause, the tests will eventually fail - usually within a step or two. So, the fact that the failures are so spurious is down to, I guess, processor load at the instant of time that the step is executed. Interestingly, something else I noticed since sending my first email... when FF fails, it always fails with an "Element not found" error, while IE always fails with "Access Denied" errors. Either way, pauses fix the problem. I'm writing Selenium.prototype.doUsrGoBack=function() ... with a forced pause of 350 ms (just to be sure) right now ;) Russ [1] I'm intrigued to now how exactly Selenium knows when the browser is fully "ready"... and why it's not working in goBack. [2] where "never" = thousands of sample runs in my dataset. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <selenium-users@lists.public.thoughtworks.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 5:45 PM Subject: [Selenium-users] spurious failures Hi all, I'm starting to ramp up my tests/testsuite and have noticed some strange behaviours in Selenium. Basically, "Access Denied" is returned from some tests, while others return "Element x not found". Both of these appear "randomly" - for example, if I repeatedly run and rerun the same test (using Run, Selected) I get a fail, then a pass then a fail... different failures but typically one of the two mentioned. Has anyone else seen this kind of behaviour? Server: IIS IE6 and FF 1.5 To make things easier, I've pasted some lines from my test which sometimes fail: clickAndWait|divRecordDelivery|Element divRecordDelivery not found This was in Firefox. Having run the test once, perfectly, I then reran it and it fails with the error as above. Anyone know why? How can the element exist and not exist? TIA Russ _______________________________________________ Selenium-users mailing list Selenium-users@lists.public.thoughtworks.org http://lists.public.thoughtworks.org/mailman/listinfo/selenium-users _______________________________________________ Selenium-users mailing list Selenium-users@lists.public.thoughtworks.org http://lists.public.thoughtworks.org/mailman/listinfo/selenium-users
