Re^6: Using WWW::Selenium To Test Or Automate An Ajax Website

[Limbic~Region]

icleave,
Are you using the Selenium IDE FireFox plug-in to record your session and then modify it? Also, you are using Test::WWW::Selenium not WWW::Selenium. I think you want the latter not the former.

I am not sure how to help you. Your code sample is fairly useless without the real website so that I can try it here to see what you are doing wrong. I am sorry, but unless you want to share the website and possibly login credentials, I can't guess what you are doing wrong.

Update: As to your syntax errors - you should always use strict and use warnings. You have used else when you meant elsif. Also, you should either \@anywhere.com or you should use single quotes because it thinks your email address is really an array.

[icleave]

Hi,

Q: Are you using Selenium IDE FireFox plug-in to record?

A: Yes. I have it record what I want to do, then I use the export function to put the Selenium commands into perl, then copy and paste into a text editor and remove the "_ok"s and place "sel->start();" in the code.

RE: Test::WWW::Selenium - Thanks I changed that, but my code doesn't seem to run how I want it to.

RE: Real website and login - The real website and my login is real in the code below.

RE: Else, elsif, \@ - Thanks, I changed that too but my code doesn't seem to run how I want it to.

Desired outcome:

1. Go to www.cokezone.co.uk
2. Login (and handle any pops if they happen
3. Check the number of points in the account and put into a scalar variable $points
4. Open a file handle <CODES> and read the codes into an array @codes
5. Enter the codes into the website and check against the $points scalar variable to see if they were entered correctly - printing if the code was successful or not
6. Carry on for each of codes in the array @codes
7. Logout when done

Progress: I've only gotten as far as no. 2 in the Selenium IDE, and I can only get to no. 1 using the Selenium RC and Perl.

I'm pretty confident I can write a file handle and read it into an array and for each of the codes get Selenium to input them into the CokeZone website, however it's no use if I can't even automate a login that handles the popups!

Code I've written to try to login and handle the popups:

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Selenium;

my $sel = WWW::Selenium->new( host => "localhost", 
                                    port => 4444, 
                                    browser => "*chrome", 
                                    browser_url => "http://www.cokezon
+e.co.uk" );

$sel->start();
$sel->open("/home/index.jsp");
$sel->click("link=Log in");
$sel->wait_for_page_to_load("30000");

if ( $sel->is_text_present("Thanks for visiting!\n\nNow here's your ch
+ance to tell us what you think. This quick and easy survey will only 
+take you a few minutes to fill out, and it'll help us to get more of 
+the stuff you want to see into 'Coke Zone'.\n\nThanks for your help,\
+nThe 'Coke Zone' Team") == 1 )

{

    $sel->select_window("entry");
    $sel->close();
    $sel->select_window("null");

}

if ( $sel->is_text_present("At the end of your visit on this website p
+lease take the time to complete an on-line survey, which will provide
+ us with feedback on the website. Please do not close this window.\n\
+nEnjoy your visit")
 == 1 )

{

    $sel->select_window("stealth");
    $sel->close();
    $sel->select_window("null");

}


$sel->click("emailAddress");
$sel->type("emailAddress", "bogus\@fake.com");
$sel->type("password", "password");
$sel->click("remember");
$sel->click("subButton");
$sel->wait_for_page_to_load("30000");

my $points = $sel->get_text("//div[\@id='header_links']/div[1]/div[1]/
+h3");
print $points

$sel->click("link=Log out");

exit 0;

[Limbic~Region]

icleave,
Please remove your user name and password. That is a stupendously bad idea. I assumed you would have /msg'd them to me. I have them now and will update this node later today with a working version.

Update: It appears that codes appearing on US bottles of coke do not work at the UK site. I will need a few codes to make this work - you have my email address.

Update 2: While I read the terms of use and didn't see anything preventing scraping or automation, the US site heavily relies on JavaScript that gives the appearance of thwarting this type of automation.

• I needed to use $sel->focus($loc) to ensure the 'onFocus' event triggered
• The above could also have been accomplished with $sel->fire($loc, 'event')
• I also needed to use $sel->mouse_over($loc) before clicking the button
Additionally, the site used fancy CSS to get you to click on an image of what kind of soda the code came from. After spending a lot of time getting that "just right", I realized it was not necessary - if entered the next code it would just silently update your points. You can also completely ignore any pop-ups when you go to the site because they do not interfere with site interaction.

I would be happy to share with you the code I wrote to automate the US site but I don't know how applicable it will be to the UK site. Beyond that, I am not interested in doing this for you as it is very time consuming to get "just right". You have my email if you would like to consider other arrangements.