How to use stopCasting method of org.openqa.selenium.chromium.Interface HasCasting class

I had a similar issue couple of days ago. Apparently I was using an old version of selenium-node image. I updated to latest version and the issue was resolved.

One of the differences between Katalon and groovy is that groovy is lightweight as compared to Katalon. Since Katalon offers variety of features in a container, it is easier to use. Scripting is very much encapsulated within it. Groovy on other had provides many features for testing - Do check out Spock (http://spockframework.org) which is mainly used for testing Java/Groovy applications.

In a nut shell; which should be chosen really depends on the team composition of programmers, tech stack on which your app is built, maintainability of the application in scope. Hope it helps...

Unpack it and place somewhere you can find it. In my example, I will assume you will place it to C:\Selenium\iexploredriver.exe

Then you have to set it up in the system. Here is the Java code pasted from my Selenium project:

File file = new File("C:/Selenium/iexploredriver.exe");
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver", file.getAbsolutePath());
WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

Basically, you have to set this property before you initialize driver

Reference:

• Driver executable must be set by the webdriver.ie.driver system property

There is a page documenting Advanced User Interactions; which has a lot of great examples on how to generate a sequence of actions, you can find it here

// Configure the action
Actions builder = new Actions(driver);

builder.keyDown(Keys.CONTROL)
   .click(someElement)
   .click(someOtherElement)
   .keyUp(Keys.CONTROL);

// Then get the action:
Action selectMultiple = builder.build();

// And execute it:
selectMultiple.perform();   

or

Actions builder = new Actions(driver);

Action dragAndDrop = builder.clickAndHold(someElement)
   .moveToElement(otherElement)
   .release(otherElement)
   .build();

dragAndDrop.perform();

This error message...

org.openqa.selenium.ElementClickInterceptedException: element click intercepted: Element <label _ngcontent-yrc-c26="" formcontrolname="reportingDealPermission" nz-checkbox="" class="ant-checkbox-wrapper ng-untouched ng-pristine ng-valid" ng-reflect-name="reportingDealPermission">...</label> is not clickable at point (161, 562). Other element would receive the click: <div _ngcontent-yrc-c26="" class="footer">...</div>

...implies that the click on the desired element was intercepted by some other element.

Clicking an element

Ideally, while invoking click() on any element you need to induce WebDriverWait for the elementToBeClickable() and you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

• cssSelector:

  new WebDriverWait(getWebDriver(), 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("label[formcontrolname=reportingDealPermission][ng-reflect-name=reportingDealPermission]"))).click();
  

• xpath:

  new WebDriverWait(getWebDriver(), 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//label[@formcontrolname='reportingDealPermission' and @ng-reflect-name='reportingDealPermission']"))).click();
  

Update

After changing to headless if it still doesn't works and still get exception there still a couple of other measures to consider as follows:

• Chrome browser in Headless mode doesn't opens in maximized mode. So you have to use either of the following commands/arguments to maximize the headless browser Viewport:

  • Adding the argument start-maximized

    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
    options.addArguments("--headless");
    options.addArguments("start-maximized");
    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
    

  • Adding the argument --window-size

    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
    options.addArguments("--headless");
    options.addArguments("--window-size=1400,600");
    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
    

  • Using setSize()

    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
    options.addArguments("--headless");
    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
    driver.manage().window().setSize(new Dimension(1440, 900));
    

You can find a detailed discussion in Not able to maximize Chrome Window in headless mode

• Additionally, you can also wait for the intercept element to be invisible using the ExpectedConditions invisibilityOfElementLocated before attempting the click() as follows:

  • cssSelector:

    new WebDriverWait(getWebDriver(), 10).until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(By.cssSelector("div.footer")));
    new WebDriverWait(getWebDriver(), 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.cssSelector("label[formcontrolname=reportingDealPermission][ng-reflect-name=reportingDealPermission]"))).click();
    

  • xpath:

    new WebDriverWait(getWebDriver(), 10).until(ExpectedConditions.invisibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[@class='footer']")));
    new WebDriverWait(getWebDriver(), 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//label[@formcontrolname='reportingDealPermission' and @ng-reflect-name='reportingDealPermission']"))).click();
    

References

You can find a couple of related relevant discussions in:

• Selenium Web Driver & Java. Element is not clickable at point (x, y). Other element would receive the click
• Element MyElement is not clickable at point (x, y)… Other element would receive the click

Your stopwatch function should work. In addition, for Selenium to capture the load time at reasonable precision, reduce the amount of wait time between commands. I, typically, use the following logic -

StopWatch s = new StopWatch();
s.start();
while (selenium.isElementPresent("element_locator")) {
   selenium.setSpeed("10");
   Thread.sleep(10);
}
s.stop();
System.out.println("elapsed time in milliseconds: " + s.getElapsedTime());

Here is some more information on the StopWatch class.

Like you said since the xpath for the next button is the same on every page it won't work. It's working as coded in that it does wait for the element to be displayed but since it's already displayed then the implicit wait doesn't apply because it doesn't need to wait at all. Why don't you use the fact that the url changes since from your code it appears to change when the next button is clicked. I do C# but I guess in Java it would be something like:

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
String startURL = //a starting url;
String currentURL = null;
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);

foo(driver,startURL);

/* go to next page */
if(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='someID']")).isDisplayed()){
    String previousURL = driver.getCurrentUrl();
    driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='someID']")).click();  
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

    ExpectedCondition e = new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
          public Boolean apply(WebDriver d) {
            return (d.getCurrentUrl() != previousURL);
          }
        };

    wait.until(e);
    currentURL = driver.getCurrentUrl();
    System.out.println(currentURL);
} 

Page is not menu. Page has menu. We can extend only if it IS A relationship. Otherwise go with composition over inheritance principle.

I would suggest you to go with Page Fragments for better reusability.

That is, you create reusable components called 'Page Fragments' as shown here and use it in the Page Objects.

The reason for this problem is guava library.

This problem got solved by adding the guava library in maven pom.xml

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
        <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
        <version>31.0.1-jre</version>
    </dependency>

One of my friend was also facing this issue and adding this library took care of it as that method ImmutableMap comes from guava

Pasting the error message as well so people will land here as many will have same problem

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap.of(Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;)Lcom/google/common/collect/ImmutableMap;

at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.AddHasCasting.getAdditionalCommands(AddHasCasting.java:38)
at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver$ChromeDriverCommandExecutor.getExtraCommands(ChromeDriver.java:123)