This situation sounds like your team needs to come up with a plan for the maximum allowed wait before that time renders. Set a wait timer and if it fails after the wait statement fail the test. It's worked for me in the past. I would suggest 3-5 seconds maximum.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com>wrote: > is it possible the request is coming in while the frames are still > being loaded? > > The Selenium docs (http://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/api/ > rb/Selenium/WebDriver/Error/StaleElementReferenceError.html) for this > error say: "Indicates that a reference to an element is now “stale” - > the element no longer appears in the DOM of the page. " > > which makes me think your request is happening while some portion of > the page is still loading, either content of a frame, some kind of > jquery or ajax update that doesn't trigger the browser itself indicate > a 'loading' state, etc. > > basically that means a race condition, most likely caused because your > code is trying to proceed before the page is ready. > > Either use some kind of wait function to wait for that field to be > present, (perhaps a cascade, wait for the first frame, then the inner > frame, then the text field?) or just a fixed sleep (easier to code > but more likely to break or cause unwanted delay if your value is too > small or too large) > > For example you could try using > > browser.frame(:id => 'iFrame1').frame(:id => 'iFrame2).text_field(:id > => 'text1').when_present.set('value') > > Or you might need to get more creative > > browser.frame(:id => 'iFrame1').wait_until_present > browser.frame(:id => 'iFrame1').frame(:id => > 'iFrame2).wait_until_present > browser.frame(:id => 'iFrame1').frame(:id => 'iFrame2).text_field(:id > => 'text1').when_present.set('value') > > See http://watirwebdriver.com/waiting/ for more info on these > methods. > > > > On Feb 21, 9:36 am, Sandra <sandra.wed...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > thanks for your answer, but same error occurs with statement in one > > line :( > > > > On 21 Feb., 18:31, Chuck van der Linden <sqa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > sounds like the contents of the page or of a frame are being updated > > > and that is making one of your variables 'stale' in that it no longer > > > references the current instance of the page and/or frame > > > > > instead of creating two objects and three lines of code, try doing it > > > all at once on a single line > > > > > browser.frame(:id => 'iFrame1').frame(:id => 'iFrame2).text_field(:id > > > => 'text1').set('value') > > > > > On Feb 21, 5:36 am, Sandra <sandra.wed...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > Yesterday I started testing a web application with watir and watir- > > > > webdriver (using firefox) and get randomly (nearly every test run) an > > > > error trying to access an element inside a nested iframe: > > > > > > Element belongs to a different frame than the current one - switch to > > > > its containing frame to use it > > > > (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::StaleElementReferenceError) > > > > [remote server] resource://fxdriver/modules/atoms.js:9574:in > > > > `unknown' > > > > [remote server] > > > > file:///tmp/webdriver-profile20120221-24798-10nxptg/extensions/ > fxdri...@googlecode.com/components/driver-component.js > > > > -> file:///tmp/webdriver-profile20120221-24798-10nxptg/extensions/ > fxdri...@googlecode.com/components/firefoxDriver.js:575:in > > > > `unknown' > > > > [remote server] > > > > file:///tmp/webdriver-profile20120221-24798-10nxptg/extensions/ > fxdri...@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:10251:in > > > > `unknown' > > > > [remote server] > > > > file:///tmp/webdriver-profile20120221-24798-10nxptg/extensions/ > fxdri...@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:10256:in > > > > `unknown' > > > > [remote server] > > > > file:///tmp/webdriver-profile20120221-24798-10nxptg/extensions/ > fxdri...@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:10204:in > > > > `unknown' > > > > > > this is my code: > > > > > > my_frame_1 = BROWSER.frame(:id => 'iFrame1') > > > > my_frame_2 = my_frame_1.frame(:id => 'iFrame2) > > > > my_frame_2.text_field(:id => 'text1').set('value') > > > > > > I am using cucumber 1.1.4, webrat 0.7.3, watir-webdriver 0.5.3 and > > > > Firefox 11.0 at a openSuSE 12.164bit system. > > > > > > Any glue or hint? Thanks in advance for your help, > > > > > > Sandra Weddig > > -- > Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search > before you ask, be nice. > > watir-general@googlegroups.com > http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
