I am developing an Ajax application, and I'm using canoo webtest for integration testing of the UI. I am currently working on the login screen, so the user is presented with a form requesting username/password. The credentials are submitted via an Ajax call, and the response (success/fail) is related via the text inside a DIV element, which remains hidden until a response occurs. Bottom line - there is no form submission, as the action takes place asynchronously - which means that the HTML is not updated as a result of a server roundtrip. Because of this, my verifyElementText call, which looks like this:
<verifyElementText description="Check login results" htmlId="msgArea" type="div" text="success" /> fails, because as far as webtest is concerned, the DIV is still blank. The results from webtest are as follows: [clickButton] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - >>>> Start Step: clickButton "Click the submit button" (4/5) [clickButton] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.AbstractTargetAction) - -> gotoTarget by clickButton with name: null [clickButton] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.ClickButton) - -> findTarget(by input): name=Login value=Login [verifyElementText] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - >>>> Start Step: verifyElementText "Check login results" (5/5) [verifyElementText] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - Running with: Canoo Webtest: R_1551. [verifyElementText] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - Exception thrown from this class: com.canoo.webtest.engine.StepFailedException [verifyElementText] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - Message was: Wrong contents found in HTML element (type="div", name="null", htmlId="msgArea")!. Expected value "success" but got "" INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - Running with: Canoo Webtest: R_1551. INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - Exception thrown from this class: com.canoo.webtest.engine.StepFailedException INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - Message was: Wrong contents found in HTML element (type="div", name="null", htmlId="msgArea")!. Expected value "success" but got "" INFO (com.canoo.webtest.ant.WebtestTask) - Finished executing webtest "UserTest" (C:\Projects\PhpWebProjects\ettc\test\canoo\UseCases\UserTest.xml:37: ) INFO (com.canoo.webtest.ant.WebtestTask) - Test report successfully created. I am currently using webtest 2.5 build R_1551, so I should have the latest code for webtest and htmlunit. How do I work around this issue? Thanks, Shawn Bradley President, Sunergeo Systems, Inc. www.sunergeosystems.com
