FAQ: When should I use “waitForElementPresent” command in my script?

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Apr 262011

selenium.waitForElementPresent(“myelement”);

The waitForElementPresent commands polls the page waiting for the specified element to load. If you are familiar with Webmetrics/WATIR scripting, the command is very similar to the wait_until() command. The waitForElementPresent command is most often used on sites containing dynamic content such as Ajax, JavaScript, etc. Scripts are designed to execute as quickly as possible and Selenium tends to fire steps faster than the DOM can render changes, causing issues/errors with the script playback.

There are a few ways to determine if you need this command:

The first is to check the playback in SeleniumIDE:

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Testing Mobile Enabled websites

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Apr 072011

This article covers how BrowserMob can be used to test mobile websites by modifying the User-agent header and connection speed to match the desired device (iPhone, Android, etc.).
When deciding which version of the website to serve up, most mobile-enabled web applications rely on parsing the User-Agent http header. By modifying this value, BrowserMob Real Browser Users (RBUs) can be turned into “Mobile Browser Users”.

The first step is to determine what specific devices you want to simulate. Zytrax has put together a great compilation of the various different mobile browser user-agent strings here.
Once you’ve determined the User-Agent strings you want to test, the next step is to update the script to overwrite the standard User-Agent header in Firefox. This can be done via the following snippet:

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Selenium IDE 1.0.4 Released

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Jan 222010

We’re happy to report that Selenium IDE 1.0.4 has been released. You can download it here and you can find the release notes here.

While this release doesn’t have many new user-facing features, it does clean up several bugs. More importantly, however, is that Adam Goucher and Jérémy Hérault did some amazing work to lay the foundation for a plugin framework. This means that soon you’ll see Selenium IDE plugins that further expand the Selenium IDE capability.

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