How to use Interface Filter class of org.openqa.selenium.remote.http package

You cannot open IE browser instance if Protected Mode settings are not the same for all zones OR if the browser is zoomed.

1. To resolve this, Open IE Browser and go to Internet Options windows.
2. Click on Security tab and make sure 'Internet','Local Intranet','Trusted sites' and 'Restricted sites' have 'Enable Protected Mode' either checked or unchecked for all options.
3. Apply and save the settings and re-run the test code. It should work.

Below workaround is provided which will help you to temporarily solve the problem.

DesiredCapabilities caps = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();

caps.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS,true);

WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(caps); 

Note : If you don't have permission to change IE settings,Request you to contact your IT administrator to get the required changes done.

• Protected Mode is an important step forward in security for Internet Explorer (IE), it helps protect users from attack by running an IE process with greatly restricted privileges.
• Protected Mode settings, like almost all other settings of IE, are stored in the Windows registry and are checked when the browser is instantiated.
• The driver needed a workaround for people who couldn't set those IE settings because their machine was overly locked down and so capabiltity fetaure was introduced.
• It simply bypasses the registry check. Using the capability doesn't solve the underlying problem though.
• Unexpected hangs, element location not working, and clicks not being propagated, could result.
• To help warn people of this potential problem, the capability was given big scary-sounding names like INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS.
• Ask your IT support to make the changes and if still using the capability you are risking the stability of your code.

You are right in your analysis, @Befores and @Afters are added to the list of Statements before any Rules. The @Before gets executed after the @Rule and the @After gets executed before the @Rule. How you fix this depends on how flexible you can be with SeleniumBaseTestCaseWithCompany.

The easiest way would be to remove your @Before/@After methods and replace them with an ExternalResource. This could look something like:

public class BeforeAfterTest {
    @Rule public TestRule rule = new ExternalResource() {
        protected void before() throws Throwable { System.out.println("externalResource before"); }
        protected void after() { System.out.println("externalResource after"); }
    };

    @Test public void testHere() { System.out.println("testHere"); }
}

this gives:

externalResource before
testHere
externalResource after

This field can be put into your base class, so it gets inherited/overridden. Your problem with ordering between @After and your rules then goes away, because you can order your rules how you like, using @RuleChain (in 4.10, not 4.8).

If you can't change SeleniumBaseTestCaseWithCompany, then you can extend BlockJUnit4ClassRunner, but don't override withAfters, but override BlockJUnit4ClassRunner#methodBlock(). You can then call super.methodBlock, and reorder the Statements as necessary[*].

[*]You could just copy the code, and reorder the lines, but withRules is private and therefore not callable from a subclass.

I also got the same exception:

I tried the following steps:

1. In Eclipse> Project > Clean. (The Exception remained)

2. I ran another project(The testng.xml ran successfully)

After running another project, I ran the project in which I was getting the Exception, and fortunately it worked for me, with no errors.

From a WebElement you can use the getAttribute method like this:

element.getAttribute("class")

Try giving the Firefox binary absolute path as a parameter in your code and when invoking from win7 provide this as in input to your JSP and then it could solve the problem. From your above stack trace it says firefox binary cannot be found in /usr/bin/firefox but you are trying to invoke the webdriver in win7 where the path is different.

Receiving org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Cannot find firefox binary in PATH running tests in Selenium IDE with Webdriver playback

Divi's answer for question 2 is fine. For part 1 you can check if an element is displayed like you said:

 webElement.isDisplayed();

Or you could compare the html of the page before and after the event.

driver.getPageSource();

(You could possibly also check the url if that changes after each event).

The one problem with getting the source of the html is that an event might have triggered after your last action and not have completed, leaving the html the same. To get around this you could check some of the following conditions:

(Boolean) ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return jQuery.ready"); 
((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("return document.readyState").equals("complete");

Or you might be using another javascript framework that has another function similar to jQuery.ready.

Finally you might have an issue with the event only triggering once you have changed the active element, tabbing out of the field etc. So you could run something like:

Actions actionObject = new Actions(driver); 
actionObject.sendKeys(Key.TAB).perform();

Or you could use javascript to set it(I haven't checked the below code and I would set the webElement to the html base element):

((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].focus();", webElement);

I don't suggest using webdriver to click on the body element as this might undo your last click.

I'm including Divi's answer for Question 2 for completeness:

We can check whether it is redirecting to another page or not by getting the url of the page and comparing it with expected url

WebDriver driver;

driver.getCurrentUrl() // will returns the String value

if your currrent url doesn't matches with your expected url means then you go for two ways

1) You can open your expected url again by using Open function in selenium (or) webdriver navigate method

driver.navigate().to("expected_url");

2) You can use back navigation

driver.navigate().back();

The lock screen will deactivate the other script of our program. So I tried open the emulator manually and disable the lock screen (Settings -> Security -> None). Then close the emulator. Now open the emulator automatically and run the script.

public void setUp(int p) throws MalformedURLException {
    DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
    capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "browser");
    capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.VERSION, "");
    capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.PLATFORM, "windows");
    capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Android");
    capabilities.setCapability("udid", "emulator-" + p);
    capabilities.setCapability("devices", "Android");
    capabilities.setCapability("avd", "Nexus7");
    capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "");
    capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", "com.android.browser");
    capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "com.android.browser.BrowserActivity");
    driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:" + this.port + "/wd/hub"), 
             capabilities);
}

@Grasshopper 's answer points us to the exact modified constructor of FluentWait and your requirement of removing the deprecation warning from withTimeout and pollingEvery fields. Incase you are facing further difficulty you can use the line of code below :

import java.time.Duration;
//lines of code
Wait<WebDriver> gWait = new FluentWait<WebDriver>(pDriver).withTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(100))
        .pollingEvery(Duration.ofMillis(600)).ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class);

You can find a detailed discussion in The type FluentWait is not generic; it cannot be parameterized with arguments error for FluentWait Class through Selenium and Java

If you want to do the zoom in chrome (not with the css) you can use the API. For example:

driver.get('chrome://settings/')
driver.execute_script('chrome.settingsPrivate.setDefaultZoom(1.5);')
driver.get("https://www.google.co.uk/")

EDIT

In Java:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", /pathTo/chromeDriver);
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("chrome://settings/");
driver.executeScript("chrome.settingsPrivate.setDefaultZoom(1.5);");
driver.get("https://www.google.co.uk/");