Issues with IE scripts advancing

synacor · Post by **synacor** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:41 pm

I use MS at work to automate the testing of websites that my company provides content for. It's worked pretty well until yesterday.

What happens is the page just sits there, stalled. If you hit refresh, it will normally continue. What I believe is happening is that there are ads on the pages that don't completely download, therefore the page never fully "loads", therefore the script never gets past waiting.

So I removed the "IE_Wait" tags, but this has not solved the problem.

We run MS to test pages on three different computers, so it's not a machine issue.

Suggestions?
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Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:08 am

Would need to see the script and website to offer any suggestions. Can you post your code?

synacor · Post by **synacor** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:56 pm

mtettmar wrote:Would need to see the script and website to offer any suggestions. Can you post your code?

MouseMove>0,0
Let>delay=2

IE_Create>0,IE[0]
let>title={"Microsoft Internet Explorer"}
WindowAction>1,title

//adelphia

Let>atest=0

label>adelphia

IE_Navigate>%IE[0]%,http://www.adelphia.net,r

Wait>delay

Let>FrameName={""}
Let>FormName={"sb_searchform"}
Let>FieldName={"q"}
Let>FieldValue={"synacor"}
IE_FormFill>%IE[0]%,str:FrameName,str:FormName,str:FieldName,str:FieldValue,0,r

Let>FrameName={""}
Let>FormName={"sb_searchform"}
Let>TagValue={""}
IE_ClickTag>%IE[0]%,str:FrameName,str:FormName,INPUT,NAME,str:TagValue,r

On occasion, it never gets to the IE_Formfill command. It just sits there with the page loaded, doing nothing.
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Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:11 pm

Insert a longer wait after the IE_Navigate. At present it's only waiting 1 second and you've removed IE_Wait. So it will not wait until the page is loaded before you try to fill the form. At the point the script is trying to fill the form it probably doesn't exist yet.