Our in-house automated testing framework is built using Selenium Webdriver in Python, with a mapping system linking object names to identifiers on webpages. However, we are encountering issues due to not waiting long enough for AJAX calls to complete, causing some performance problems.
After researching on stackoverflow and other online resources, I came across the following code snippets:
inserted into the framework just before interacting with an object
try:
WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(ajax_complete, "Ajax check waited 5 seconds")
except TimeoutException:
logger1.info("Warning: waited 5 seconds)
Here is the ajax_complete code:
def ajax_complete(driver):
try:
return 0 == driver.execute_script("return jQuery.active")
except WebDriverException:
pass
The issue arises when navigating to pages like the login screen where jQuery is not present, leading to a constant TimeoutException. To address this, I need to increase the wait time from 5 seconds to 60 seconds to accommodate our performance challenges. This means that the login page will have a total of 3 minutes of wait time (1 minute for entering username, 1 minute for password, and 1 minute for clicking the login button) due to the absence of jQuery triggering the Ajax check timeout.
I am exploring ways to verify the presence of jQuery on a webpage before initiating the WebDriverWait check. One approach could be checking for script elements like:
if driver.find_element_by_tagname("<script>")
If this returns True, it confirms the existence of at least one script on the page, although not specifically jQuery. Finding a more specific element could help pinpoint jQuery's presence. The challenge lies in verifying the absence of jQuery rather than its presence.