How to use advanced method of org.openqa.selenium.grid.node.local.LocalNode.Builder class

Instead of class name you can use a css selector. You don't mention the tagname for the class 'current time'. I am assuming it to be input, so your css selector work be,

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[class='current time']"));
element.click();

Edit#1 Based on html provided,

Looking at the html in your comment, it seems you have quite a few options to find the webElement. Here are your options,

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[class='current time']"));
element.click();

or this should work too,

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a.current.time"));
element.click();

You can also use linkText since the element is link. From the html you provided, the link text is 'url'

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.linkText("url"));
element.click();

You can also use By.partialLinkText("partial link text here");

You can also use xpath as:

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@class='current time']"));
element.click();

OR,

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[text() = 'url']"));
element.click();

Try something this, Change the path and slashing accoding to your specifications :-

            WebDriver driver=null;
            System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","./src//lib//chromedriver");
            DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
            ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
            options.addArguments("test-type");
            options.addArgument("--start-maximized");
            options.addArguments("--disable-web-security");
            options.addArguments("--allow-running-insecure-content");
            capabilities.setCapability("chrome.binary","./src//lib//chromedriver");
            capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
            driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);
            driver.get("https://www.google.com/");

Below is the link where all available chrome flags are listed :-

http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

Hope it will help you :)

As per your question commenting out driver.quit() just Not to close firefox window after each run, because I just want to analyse what I have won't be a part of best practices.

For any detailed analysis we can create log entries and take snapshots.

While automating through Selenium as per the best practices you should invoke the quit() method within the tearDown() {}. Invoking quit() DELETEs the current browsing session through sending "quit" command with {"flags":["eForceQuit"]} and finally sends the GET request on /shutdown EndPoint. Here is an example below :

1503397488598   webdriver::server   DEBUG   -> DELETE /session/8e457516-3335-4d3b-9140-53fb52aa8b74 
1503397488607   geckodriver::marionette TRACE   -> 37:[0,4,"quit",{"flags":["eForceQuit"]}]
1503397488821   webdriver::server   DEBUG   -> GET /shutdown

So on invoking quit() method the Web Browser session and the WebDriver instance gets killed completely. Hence you don't have to incorporate any additional steps which will be an overhead.

Solution

Still if you want to execute kill the dangling WebDriver instances e.g. GeckoDriver.exe instances you can use either of the following code block to kill any of the dangling WebDriver instances :

• Java Solution(Windows):

  import java.io.IOException;
  
  public class Kill_ChromeDriver_GeckoDriver_IEDriverserver 
  {
      public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception 
      {
          Runtime.getRuntime().exec("taskkill /F /IM geckodriver.exe /T");
          Runtime.getRuntime().exec("taskkill /F /IM chromedriver.exe /T");
          Runtime.getRuntime().exec("taskkill /F /IM IEDriverServer.exe /T");
      }
  }
  

• Python Solution (Windows):

  import os
  os.system("taskkill /f /im geckodriver.exe /T")
  os.system("taskkill /f /im chromedriver.exe /T")
  os.system("taskkill /f /im IEDriverServer.exe /T")
  

• Python Solution(Cross Platform):

  import os
  import psutil
  
  PROCNAME = "geckodriver" # or chromedriver or IEDriverServer
  for proc in psutil.process_iter():
      # check whether the process name matches
      if proc.name() == PROCNAME:
          proc.kill()
  

There is no sendTextmethod present in selenium.

Although your team mates have used it. It will probably be a wrapper of sendKeys()method.

Suggestion :

Install decompiler in your IDE and check the internals of sendText method.

Element.scrollIntoView()

Element.scrollIntoView() method scrolls the element on which it's called into the Viewport of the browser window.

Syntax

• element.scrollIntoView()
• element.scrollIntoView(alignToTop) // Boolean parameter
• element.scrollIntoView(scrollIntoViewOptions) // Object parameter

Parameters

The parameters for this method are:

• alignToTop (Optional): Is a Boolean value, if true, the top of the element will be aligned to the top of the visible area of the scrollable ancestor. This is the default value. If false, the bottom of the element will be aligned to the bottom of the visible area of the scrollable ancestor. Corresponds to scrollIntoViewOptions: {block: "end", inline: "nearest"}.
• scrollIntoViewOptions (Optional): Is an Object with the following properties:
• behavior (Optional): Defines the transition animation. One of "auto" or "smooth". Defaults to "auto".
• block (Optional): Defines vertical alignment. One of "start", "center", "end", or "nearest". Defaults to "start".
• inline (Optional): Defines horizontal alignment. One of "start", "center", "end", or "nearest". Defaults to "nearest".

This usecase

As per your line of code:

((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", element);

the argument true refers to boolean value for alignToTop. Hence the issue.

Solution

To automate horizontal scrolling you need to pass the argument for the inline parameter either among the following:

• start
• center
• end
• nearest

Alternative

As an alternative you can use either of the following options

• scrollLeft(): Element.scrollLeft() property gets or sets the number of pixels that an element's content is scrolled from its left edge. If the element's direction is rtl (right-to-left), then scrollLeft is 0 when the scrollbar is at its rightmost position (at the start of the scrolled content), and then increasingly negative as you scroll towards the end of the content.
• scrollWidth(): Element.scrollWidth() read-only property is a measurement of the width of an element's content, including content not visible on the screen due to overflow.

Outro

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussion in:

• What is the difference between the different scroll options?
• Selenium python Error: element could not be scrolled into view

You are using javascript that scrolls the main window, if you want to scroll a element, you should first get the element by id, then change the its scrollLeft property:

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver; 
js.executeScript(
    "document.getElementById('gvLocationHorizontalRail').scrollLeft += 250", "");

If you instead want to change the scrollbar that moves up and down, you should change the scrollTop property.

If I understand your needs correctly this can be achieved by combining the following:

• using a JUnit method rule which will give you the name of the current method
• creating a Log4j appender at runtime, and configuring it with the name of the method obtained you just obtained

Specifically, you need to create a custom JUnit rule. I chose to extend the TestWatcher as it seems most appropriate

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout;
import org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender;
import org.junit.rules.TestWatcher;
import org.junit.runner.Description;

public class TestMethodLogging extends TestWatcher {
  private static final String date = new SimpleDateFormat("y-MM-dd")
      .format(new Date());
  private Logger logger;

  @Override
  protected void starting(Description description) {
    String name = description.getMethodName();
    RollingFileAppender a = (RollingFileAppender) Logger.getRootLogger()
        .getAppender("rollingFile");
    PatternLayout layout = new PatternLayout();
    layout.setConversionPattern("%d{dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss} %p %t %c - %m%n");

    try {
      File logDir = new File(a.getFile()).getParentFile();
      File logFile = new File(logDir, name + "_" + date);
      logger = Logger.getLogger(name);
      logger.addAppender(new RollingFileAppender(layout, logFile
          .getAbsolutePath()));
    } catch (IOException e) {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
  }

  public Logger getLogger() {
    return logger;
  }
}

Once you have this you can place it as a rule inside your test class. A rule is simply a field in the test (carrying the @Rule annotation). In here I called it rule (not very imaginative, I admit). In order to log from your test method you need to call rule.getLogger().

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;

public class MyTest {
  @Rule
  public TestMethodLogging rule = new TestMethodLogging();

  @Test
  public void sumOfTwoInts() throws Throwable {
    rule.getLogger().error(
        "logging to a logger whose name is based on the test method's name");
    assertEquals(5, 2 + 3);
  }

  @Test
  public void productOfTwoInts() throws Throwable {
    rule.getLogger().error(
        "logging to a logger whose name is based on the test method's name");
    assertEquals(8, 2 * 4);
  }
}

When I run this test it creates these two files under my ~/Desktop/Selenium/AutomationLogs directory:

productOfTwoInts_2015-05-10  
sumOfTwoInts_2015-05-10

The content of the first file looks as follows:

$ cat productOfTwoInts_2015-05-10 
10 May 2015 19:59:58 ERROR main productOfTwoInts - logging to a logger whose name is based on the test method's name
10 May 2015 20:01:22 ERROR main productOfTwoInts - logging to a logger whose name is based on the test method's name
10 May 2015 20:01:24 ERROR main productOfTwoInts - logging to a logger whose name is based on the test method's name

There are several things you can try:

• an Explicit elementToBeClickable Wait:

  WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, 10);
  
  WebElement button = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.id("myid")));
  button.click()
  

• move to element before making a click:

  Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
  actions.moveToElement(button).click().build().perform();
  

• make the click via javascript:

  JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
  js.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", button);
  

You can try this one too as CSS Selector

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[type='button'][value='Open device access']")).click();

or

driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[type='button']")).click();