How to use createTempDir method of org.openqa.selenium.io.TemporaryFilesystem class

This is the telemetry feature, and the prompt is controlled by the toolkit.telemetry.prompted property:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Reviews/Firefox6/ReviewNotes/telemetry

You can set it via prefs.js:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Prefs.js_file

Also relevant:

http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=3144

This should work:

driver.findElement(By.LinkText("Users")).click();

By LinkText is possible

By default, a completely clean profile with an empty cache, local storage, cookies is fired up by selenium. You are actually browsing privately with selenium.

First of all, there is a problem in your code - you are not passing your DesiredCapabilities instance to the webdriver constructor (not tested though):

ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

You may also try forcing the "incognito" mode:

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();

capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.ForSeleniumServer.ENSURING_CLEAN_SESSION, true);
capabilities.setCapability("chrome.switches", Arrays.asList("--incognito"));

ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

The error is being thrown by webdriver's get method that is navigating you to the url that you provided. Most probably your URL is missing a protocol. So a wild guess would be, that you are passing url as www.example.com, but what you want to give is http://www.example.com

You can select text nodes using the axis step text().

//div[@class='A']/text()

If you only want text nodes following the <input/> node, use this:

//div[@class="A"]/input/following-sibling::text()

You can add arbitrary predicates to the <input/> element, too - like you did for the <div/>.

I would say the simplest possible solution is to use Site Monitor plug-in.

It is simple, reliable and it also allows to reuse build status notifications, provided by your jenkins instance. The only limitation is you should have some http server up and running, but I bet you have at least default page available.

Configuration is simple:

You may capture the Computed Css value as shown in the firebug screenshot below:

like this:

WebDriver web = new FirefoxDriver(;
String visibility = web.findElement(By.xpath("//your xpath")).getCssValue("display");

You just need to specify machine's IP address, port and database name in the connection string. So try something like

String dbUrl = "jdbc:mysql://192.168.1.53306/myDB";
DriverManager.getConnection(dbUrl, "username", "password");

And your tests should work the same way as before, you are just connectng to the different machine which can be more time consuming (e.g. queries can take more time) but that's the only difference.

This error message...

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.InvalidElementStateException: invalid element state

...implies that the element with which you are trying to interact is in a state during which actions cannot be performed.

InvalidElementStateException

InvalidElementStateException is a type of WebDriverException which indicates that a WebElement with whom you are trying to interact is in a state in which actions cannot be performed with it. Such instances may arise when an element is being obscured by another element while clicking or the desired element perhaps is not being visible on the HTML DOM.

Solution

You have to consider a few facts as follows :

• Never mixup implicitlyWait() and WebDriverWait() as the documentation clearly mentions the following :

Do not mix implicit and explicit waits. Doing so can cause unpredictable wait times. For example setting an implicit wait of 10 seconds and an explicit wait of 15 seconds, could cause a timeout to occur after 20 seconds.

So you need to remove all the instances of implicitlyWait().

• As you need to send characters to the Email Address or Username field so instead of ExpectedConditions method visibilityOfElementLocated() you need to use elementToBeClickable() method.

• A simple script to access the url https://wordpress.com/log-in and send characters to the Email Address or Username field is as follows :

  System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:/path/to/geckodriver.exe");
  WebDriver driver =  new FirefoxDriver();
  driver.get("https://wordpress.com/log-in");
  new WebDriverWait(driver,30).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//input[@id='usernameOrEmail']"))).sendKeys("JoeThomas");
  

• Snapshot of the WebClient :

Update

As per your counter question within your comments the WebDriverWait polls the HTML DOM at certain intervals (default 500 ms) till the configured amount of time (30 seconds in your case). The element/s is/are returned back as soon as the ExpectedConditions is met. For example, if the desired element is found within 1 second, it is returned and your next line of code executes. There is no delay involved. As per the WebDriverWait constructor you can always configure the timeOutInSeconds and sleepInMillis i.e. polling interval.

Reference

You can find a detailed discussion in:

• Replace implicit wait with explicit wait (selenium webdriver & java)