Comments on: Web UI Automation and Test using PowerShell

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:33:20 +0000

By some reason NavigateTo function throws an error. Any ideas?

Exception calling “Navigate” with “1″ argument(s): “The RPC server is unavailable. (Except
ion from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)”
At line:3 char:20
+ $global:ie.Navigate <<<< ("http://www.google.com/advanced_search&quot
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ComMethodCOMException

By: Kiima

Kiima — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:41:40 +0000

Great article. I added a simple link click function to mine. It took me a while to find/figure it out, so I thought I’d share it.

Function ClickLinkByInnerText($innertext)
{
if ($script:doc -eq $null) {
Write-Error “Document is null”
break
}
$link = $script:doc.getElementsByTagName(‘A’) | where-object {$_.innerText -eq $innertext}
if ($link -ne $null) {
$link.Click()
WaitForPage
}
else {
Write-Error “Couldn’t find link with innertext “”$innertext”"”
break
}
}

By: Davo

Davo — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:18:35 +0000

Philippe..you ROCK! This is an excellent post, I will find this very useful. Thanks very much.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:19:06 +0000

I also use that stuff for webtesting…
As i didn’t find a way to automate a fileupload natively i did this with waitn in posh.(http://watin.sourceforge.net/)
Pretty sure you ca n handle PopUps as well

By: chan

chan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:58:23 +0000

hi do you have any idea, how to detect popup window using powershell?

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:59:11 +0000

Great stuff, thanks very much for posting this..

By: Philippe

Philippe — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:32:53 +0000

Nope, didn’t know about that tool. Looks very intresting. Thanks for pointing it out!

However, what I wrote is more for a personnal use. The application I’m currently working on need a few forms of inputs before reaching the part that I’m working on, so this comes in handy.

By: Jack Ukleja

Jack Ukleja — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:00:26 +0000

Have you tried using Selenium RC? A very easy to use plug-in for Firefox that lets you record and playback and make assertions. “No code required”.