Ryan Byrd's Tech Ramblings

So you installed the Selenium IDE firefox plugin and you recorded a check-out transaction of your Magento-powered ecommerce site. Then you save as a php file and fire up your Selenium RC server and run the script. It gets to the checkout page and … Nothing. What’s wrong?

What’s wrong is that you’ve submitted too quickly. You need to do some checking with xpath ids for the “updating totals” div before you can click submit. Here’s a working Selenium Magento script for your reference:

require_once 'PHPUnit/Extensions/SeleniumTestCase.php';
 
class Example extends PHPUnit_Extensions_SeleniumTestCase
{
 function setUp()
 {
   $this->setBrowser("*chrome");
   $this->setBrowserUrl("http://www.example.com");
 }
 
 public function testMyTestCase()
 {
   //$this->maxRunningTime= 30; //(this is a special function I implemented)
   $this->open("/");
   $this->click("//ul[@id='nav']/li[1]/ul/li[1]/a/span");
   $this->waitForPageToLoad("30000");
   $this->click("//img[@alt='ADD TO CART']");
   $this->waitForPageToLoad("30000");
   $this->click("//div[2]/div[1]/ul/li/a/img");
   $this->waitForPageToLoad("30000");
   $this->type("billing:email", "test@example.com");
   $this->type("billing:firstname", "test");
   $this->type("billing:lastname", "test");
   $this->type("billing:telephone", "8015551212");
   $this->type("billing:street1", "100 Main Street");
   $this->type("billing:city", "Salt Lake City");
   $this->select("billing:region_id", "label=Utah");
   $this->type("billing:postcode", "84116");
   $this->click("//*[@id=\"billing:street1\"]");
   for ($second = 0; ; $second++) {
       if ($second >= 7) break;
       try {
           if (!$this->isElementPresent("//span[@id='billing-please-wait' and contains(@style,'display: none')]")) break;
       } catch (Exception $e) {}
       sleep(1);
   }
 
   for ($second = 0; ; $second++) {
       if ($second >= 7) break;
       try {
           if ($this->isElementPresent("//span[@id='billing-please-wait' and contains(@style,'display: none')]")) break;
       } catch (Exception $e) {}
       sleep(1);
   }
 
   $this->type("merchant_cc_number", "511111111111111");
   $this->click("advice-validate-cc-number-merchant_cc_number");
   $this->type("merchant_cc_number", "4111111111111111");
   $this->select("merchant_expiration", "label=01 - January");
   $this->select("merchant_expiration_yr", "label=2016");
   $this->type("merchant_cc_cid", "432");
   $this->click("//*[@id=\"submit-order-button\"]");
   sleep(1);
   $this->click("//*[@id=\"submit-order-button\"]");
   $this->waitForPageToLoad("30000");
   $this->waitForPageToLoad("");
   try {
       $this->assertTrue($this->isTextPresent("Thank you for your purchase!"));
   } catch (PHPUnit_Framework_AssertionFailedError $e) {
       array_push($this->verificationErrors, $e->toString());
   }
 }
}

Here is the Selenium timeout/maxRunningTime modification code explained.