selenium-webdriver/test/stale_element_test.js

The official WebDriver JavaScript bindings from the Selenium project

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'use strict';

var fail = require('assert').fail;

var Browser = require('..').Browser,
    By = require('..').By,
    error = require('..').error,
    until = require('..').until,
    assert = require('../testing/assert'),
    test = require('../lib/test'),
    Pages = test.Pages;


test.suite(function(env) {
  var driver;
  test.before(function() { driver = env.builder().build(); });
  test.after(function() { driver.quit(); });

  test.it(
      'dynamically removing elements from the DOM trigger a ' +
          'StaleElementReferenceError',
      function() {
        driver.get(Pages.javascriptPage);

        var toBeDeleted = driver.findElement(By.id('deleted'));
        assert(toBeDeleted.isDisplayed()).isTrue();

        driver.findElement(By.id('delete')).click();
        driver.wait(until.stalenessOf(toBeDeleted), 5000);
      });

  test.it('an element found in a different frame is stale', function() {
    driver.get(Pages.missedJsReferencePage);
    driver.switchTo().frame('inner');
    var el = driver.findElement(By.id('oneline'));
    driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
    el.getText().then(fail, function(e) {
      assert(e.code).equalTo(error.ErrorCode.STALE_ELEMENT_REFERENCE);
    });
  });
});