[QA] Browser testing components that disappear quickly e.g. ajax

[Jon Robson]

I'm still waiting for help with this...


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Jon Robson <jrobson at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> It doesn't seem to work for my use case...
>
> When I try:
> Then(/^I see an upload progress bar$/) do
>   on(ArticlePage) do |page|
>     page.progress_header_element.when_present
>     page.progress_header_element.when_not_present(20)
>   end
> end
>
> I see:
>     Then I see an upload progress bar                  #
> features/step_definitions/uploads_steps.rb:60
>       timed out after 5 seconds, waiting for {:class=>"uploading",
> :tag_name=>"h2"} to become present (Watir::Wait::TimeoutError)
>       ./features/step_definitions/uploads_steps.rb:62:in `block (2
> levels) in <top (required)>'
>       ./features/step_definitions/uploads_steps.rb:61:in `/^I see an
> upload progress bar$/'
>       features/uploads_page.feature:10:in `Then I see an upload progress
> bar'
>
> It really is a case of blink and you miss it...
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > See if this would do what you want:
> > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115659/
> >
> > It works pretty well, there are a couple of other similar checks in the
> > repos.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Anyone?
> >>
> >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Jon Robson <jrobson at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> >> > I have two things I want to write tests for.
> >> > 1) When a user clicks on a link in alpha on mobile the page loads via
> >> > JavaScript and an ajax loader appears.
> >> >
> >> > 2) When a user uploads an image, after hitting submit they see a
> >> > progress bar.
> >> >
> >> > Both of these elements typically appear for a short period of time
> >> > before disappearing.
> >> >
> >> > Using the following rule:
> >> >
> >> > Then(/^I see an upload progress bar$/) do
> >> >   on(ArticlePage).progress_header_element.when_present.should
> be_visible
> >> > end
> >> >
> >> > When I watch the test run I see that the progress_header is in fact
> >> > visible, but Watir does not find it. If I update the JavaScript so the
> >> > progress header never disappears, then the test passes.
> >> >
> >> > Is there some kind of time interval for checking this sort of thing?
> >> >
> >> > For reference here is the patch...
> >> > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/116167/
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas how to deal with this sort of browser test?
> >>
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