For the life of me, I could not get User Interactions to work properly. They just wouldn’t work. They used to work, last time I tried them. But now…
new Actions(driver).keyDown(Keys.CONTROL).
sendKeys("b").
keyUp(Keys.CONTROL).
perform();
”!*&^*&£$“, as old comics used to illustrate the expletive.
I found I wasn’t alone on the forums.
I used a simple user interactions experimental page which had enough to let me see what was happening:
Then I wrote the offending parts of the test code in a new test that I could run cross browser. You can find it in the WebDriverExperiments over on github.
And lo, on my machine, with the way I was starting the browsers, with my version of Selenium and the versions of the browsers I installed…
I got results I didn’t expect…
It worked.
”!*&^*&£$“, as old comics used to illustrate the expletive.
Wait a minute. Did you see that? That warning about firecookie now being part of firebug? I think Firefox just updated itself!
Hmmm, let me check my smaller laptop – Hey, that is running Firefox 11.0. Blink. Hey, it just updated to 14.0.1.
I had the most recent version of WebDriver, but an out of date version of Firefox.
OK, now I have to stop that happening ever again.
Lessons learned.
- I better start reading the forums more closely. I bet someone already found this out.
- Next time, when I update WebDriver, I have to force a manual download of the updated version of Firefox. None of this relying on the automated update stuff. Who trusts automation anyway?
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