Back button on browser not recognized on Selenium endpoint

[sgcneil]

I have created an automated test on a website using my local machine as the Endpoint and it recognizes pressing the browser's Back button.
However when I set Selenium Webdriver as the endpoint, Ranorex cannot find the back button and the testing fails there.
I have many "back" button presses in my Test Suite to thoroughly test the website's capacity so I can't just remove that step.

The error message is:

Failed to find item 'xxxxxxxxRepository.WebDocumentxxxxxxxxOn.Self'.
No element found for path '/dom[@domain='xxxx.xxxxe.com']' at step 'dom[@domain='xxxx.xxxxe.com']' after 85 attempts within 30s.

I've seen on the Ranorex report screenshot that the browser's menu bar on top is cropped out and only shows the site's content. I want to know why but I'm more interested on how to execute a back button on browsers when using Selenium as an endpoint.

To summarize the question:
If I want to use Selenium webdriver as an endpoint, how could I execute a command on Ranorex that moves back to the browser's previous page?


OS: Windows10
RanorexStudio:v9.1.0
browser:Chrome (haven't tried on other)

[odklizec]

Hi,

As far as I know, Selenium cannot manipulate web browser's UI controls? On Selenium, if you want to navigate back, you must use code like this:

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driver.Navigate().Back();

The question is, how to invoke such command in Ranorex? Maybe this page could help?...
http://scraping.pro/example-of-scraping ... in-csharp/

[qwertzu]

Hi,

For executing Selenium commands, you have to fetch the currently used webdriver endpoint with these two lines:

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var webDriverEndpoint = Host.Current.TryGetAsWebDriverEndpoint();
OpenQA.Selenium.IWebDriver driver = webDriverEndpoint.WebDrivers.FirstOrDefault();

Afterwards you should be able to execute Selenium commands as Odklizec suggested.

Also, don't forget to add the necessary "usings" at the top of your code module:

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using System.Linq;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions;

Regards, qwertzu