Although uncommon, in some cases a Context may need to be extended (for
example, to override a step defined in the server with a specific
behaviour in the acceptance tests of an app); in those cases the
subclass should be able to access the actor attribute defined in the
Context it is extending.
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Each time a new actor appears in a scenario the browser window of the
new actor is put in front of the browser windows of the previous actors.
Before, when acting again as a previous actor his browser window stayed
in the background; in most cases everything worked fine even if the
window was in the background, but due to a bug in the Firefox driver of
Selenium and/or maybe in Firefox itself when the window was in the
background it was not possible to set the value of an input field that
had a range selected.
Now, when acting again as a previous actor his browser window is brought
to the foreground. This prevents the bug from manifesting, but also
reflects better how a user would interact with the browser in real life.
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For consistency with the helper for the Apache web server the helper for
the PHP built-in web server was renamed too.
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The default and only helper to run acceptance tests run them on the PHP
built-in web server. This commit introduces a new helper that can be
used to run them on an Apache web server instead.
This helper is meant to be used by the acceptance tests of apps that
require a multi-threaded web server to run (like Talk, due to its use of
long polling). To use the helper it is only needed to set it in the
Behat configuration for the acceptance tests of the app, as explained in
the "NextcloudTestServerContext" documentation.
It is assumed that the acceptance tests are run using the default setup,
and therefore inside a Docker container based on the image for
acceptance tests from Nextcloud. Due to that the helper is expected to
have root permissions, and thus it starts and stops the Apache web
server directly using "service start/stop apache2". In the same way it
also restores the owner and group for "apps", "config" and "data" to
"www-data", as it is the user that Apache sub-processes are run as.
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NoSuchElement exceptions are sometimes thrown instead of
StaleElementReference exceptions. This can happen when the Selenium2
driver for Mink performs an action on an element through the WebDriver
session instead of directly through the WebDriver element. In that case,
if the element with the given ID does not exist, a NoSuchElement
exception would be thrown instead of a StaleElementReference exception,
so those cases are handled like StaleElementReference exceptions.
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MoveTargetOutOfBounds exceptions are sometimes thrown instead of
ElementNotVisible exceptions. This can happen when the Selenium2 driver
for Mink moves the cursor on an element using the "moveto" method of the
Webdriver session, for example, before clicking on an element. In that
case, if the element is not visible, "moveto" would throw a
MoveTargetOutOfBounds exception instead of an ElementNotVisible
exception, so those cases are handled like ElementNotVisible exceptions.
Note that MoveTargetOutOfBounds exceptions could be thrown too if the
element was visible but "out of reach"; there is no problem in handling
those cases as if the element was not visible, as the exception will be
thrown again anyway once it is verified that the element is indeed
visible.
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In some cases the acceptance tests have to explicitly wait for something
to happen without using the "find" method from the actor; in those cases
the timeout multiplier needs to be taken into account too, so the test
cases must be able to retrieve it from the actor.
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The NextcloudTestServerLocalHelper started the PHP built-in web server
for the Nextcloud test server at 127.0.0.1; as the Selenium server has
to access the Nextcloud test server they were forced to share the same
network. Now, the domain at which the PHP built-in web server is started
can be specified when the NextcloudTestServerLocalHelper is created,
which removes the need of sharing the same network, as the Selenium
server now can access the Nextcloud test server at an arbitrary domain.
However, by default "127.0.0.1" is still used if no domain is given.
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Commands executed on Mink elements may fail for several reasons.
ElementWrapper is introduced to automatically handle some of those
situations, like StaleElementReference exceptions and ElementNotVisible
exceptions.
StaleElementReference exceptions are thrown when the command is executed
on an element that is no longer attached to the DOM. When that happens
the ElementWrapper finds again the element and executes the command
again on the new element.
ElementNotVisible exceptions are thrown when the command requires the
element to be visible but the element is not. When that happens the
ElementWrapper waits for the element to be visible before executing the
command again.
These changes are totally compatible with the current acceptance tests.
They just make the tests more robust, but they do not change their
behaviour. In fact, this should minimize some of the sporadic failures
in the acceptance tests caused by their concurrent nature with respect
to the web browser executing the commands.
However, the ElementWrapper is not a silver bullet; it handles the most
common situations, but it does not handle every possible scenario. For
example, the acceptance tests would still fail sporadically if an
element can become staled several times in a row (uncommon) or if it
does not become visible before the timeout expires (which could still
happen in a loaded system even if the components under test work right,
but obviously it is not possible to wait indefinitely for them).
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Starting a session for an Actor can fail, typically, due to a timeout
connecting with the web browser. Now if the session fails to start it
will be tried again up to "actorTimeoutMultiplier" times in total before
giving up.
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The timeout passed to the "find" method was multiplied by the
"findTimeoutMultiplier" attribute. However, as "find" used
"findAncestor" and "findAncestor", in turn, used "find" itself the
timeout was increased exponentially for ancestor elements. Now "find"
was split in "find" and "findInternal"; the first method is the public
one and modifies the given parameters as needed and then calls the
second method, private, that performs the find itself.
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The "named" Mink selector first tries to find an exact match for its
locator and then, if not found, tries to find a partial match. Besides
other harder to track problems (see comment in the commit in which the
"content" locator was removed), this could cause, for example, finding
an action link titled "Favorited" when looking for the action link
titled "Favorite" (that is, one that conveys the opposite state to the
one found).
Although currently all the acceptance tests are compatible with both the
"named" and the "named_exact" Mink selectors the predefined locators are
modified to use the "named_exact" Mink selector to make them more
future-proof; the "named" Mink selector can still be used if needed
through the "customSelector" method in the builder object.
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The "content" locator uses the "named" Mink selector and the "content"
Mink locator to find the element. The "named" Mink first tries to find
the elements whose content match exactly the given content but, if none
is found, then it tries to find elements that just contain the given
content.
This behaviour can lead to hard to track issues. Finding the exact match
and, if not found, finding the partial match is done in quick
succession. In most cases, when looking for an exact match the element
is already there, it is returned, and everything works as expected. Or
it may not be there, but then it is not there either when finding the
partial match, so no element is returned, and everything works as
expected (that is, the actor tries to find again the element after some
time).
However, it can also happen that when looking for an exact match there
is no element yet, but it appears after trying to find the exact match
but before trying to find the partial match. In that situation the
desired element would be returned along with its ancestors. However, as
only the first found element is taken into account and the ancestors
would appear first the find action would be successful, but the returned
element would not be the expected one. This is highly unlikely, yet
possible, and can cause sporadic failures in acceptance tests that,
apparently, work as expected.
Using a "named_exact" Mink selector instead of the "named" Mink selector
does not provide the desired behaviour in most cases either. As it finds
any element whose content matches exactly the given content, looking for
"Hello world" in "<div><p><a>Hello world</a></p></div>" would match the
"div", "p" and "a" elements; in that situation the "div" element would
be the one returned, when typically the "a" element would be the
expected one.
As it is error prone and easily replaceable by more robust locators the
"content" locator was removed from the predefined ones (although it can
still be used if needed through the "customSelector" method in the
builder object).
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The data storage (the "notebook") is shared between all the actors, so
the data can be stored and retrieved between different steps by any
actor in the same scenario.
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Daniel Calviño Sánchez
John Molakvoæ (skjnldsv)
Arthur Schiwon
Morris Jobke