How to capture the status change of a process in selenium after the process is kickstarted Run

Question

In my UI, there are status changes likw, once I click on "run".. the status changes like this .."Initialised" ...."Scheduled"..."started" ...."InProgress"..."Passed"/"Failed", How can i capture the status of this dynamically and get the complete stream of status and show to the user like this "Initialized-->Scheduled-->Started-->INprogres-->Passed".

Any refrence links or suggustions please.

The status happens in same element. BUt there is not specific time it takes from one status change to another.

Comments

Could you please share the code snippet and error logs if any? It will help in comprehending the issue better.

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try{
String strRunstatus = TestExecutionStatus.get(1).getText();
String statusTraverse = null;
if(statusTraverse = null)
statusTraverse 
while(true)
waitMilliSec(2000);
{
if(strRunStatus.equals("Not Started"))
{
statusTraverse = statusTraverse+ "--> " +strRunStatus;
continue;
}
if(strRunStatus.equals("Started"))
{
statusTraverse = statusTraverse+ "--> " +strRunStatus;
continue;
}
if(strRunStatus.equals("Passed"))
{
statusTraverse = statusTraverse+ "--> " +strRunStatus;
break;
}
if(strRunStatus.equals("Failed"))
{
statusTraverse = statusTraverse+ "--> " +strRunStatus;
break;
}
}

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What's the error that you are getting?

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No elemnt Exception.. BUt is this the correct way @Liana. In debugging, i see that alert box with input textbox with a message in it is acusing exception.

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HOw to retrieve text in alert pop-up which is in Input text box. I am able to edit that text box which has message.

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You could probably try using prompt for getting user input

var retVal = prompt("Enter your name : ", "your name here");
document.getElementById(formId).submit();

this variable you can access and redirect accordingly

You can store the value of prompt in any control within the form which you can access on the submitted page after the page is submitted.

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Thanks Liana, but the alert message which pops up, already has the text in that Input box. I want to capture that text.

this methos is not working. alert.getText().

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In case you're trying to automate this using the JavaScript alert() function, the following code could help.

// Switch the driver context to the alert
Alert alertDialog = driver.switchTo().alert();

// Get the alert text
String alertText = alertDialog.getText();

// Click the OK button on the alert.
alertDialog.accept();

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This is not working.

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Check this out. 

https://www.edureka.co/blog/alerts-popups-in-selenium#How_to_handle_alerts_in_Selenium_Webdriver?

The last part of this blog that deals with integrated approach of dealing with popup alerts might help!

Answer 1

For your requirement of capturing and displaying the status dynamically, you could probably try using the xpath.

Your code should be something on these lines:

if (driver.findElements(By.xpath("//span[@ng-bind='scan.scanStatus' and text()='Not Started']")).size()>0)
{
  System.out.println("Status : " + driver.findElement(By.xpath("//span[@ng-bind='scan.scanStatus' and text()='Not Started']")).getText());
  continue;
}

You could develop your code on these lines for implementing the various statuses that you want to display to the user.

Hope this helps!