Selenium cannot exercise scLocators (autWindow is undefined)

Installation
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I have searched extensively to solve a simple problem. I am trying to simply demonstrate Selenium IDE exercising a screen in the SmartGWT Showcase.
I must be overlooking something obvious.

Here is what I have done so far:

  1. Install Selenium IDE (1.3.0) with Firefox 3.6.23. Selenium works OK for other web pages.
  2. Download and unpack smartgwtee-2.5.zip.
  3. Configure Selenium IDE to use the SmartGWT “user-extensions.js” file.
    Also set “Selenium IDE extensions” to use the “user-extensions-ide.js” file.
  4. Use Selenium IDE to record a short script on the SmartGWT EE showcase and verify that the locators look correct, e.g.
    <td>click</td>
    <td>scLocator=//IButton[ID=“isc_IButton_1”]/</td>
    <td></td>
    So far, this looks good. It appears that Selenium IDE is correctly using the “user-extensions.js” to identify the components in the GUI.

However, when I playback this simple command
click scLocator=//IButton[ID=“isc_IButton_1”]/
it shows the following log in Selenium IDE:

[info] Executing: |click | scLocator=//IButton[ID=“isc_IButton_1”]/ | |

[info] Located in doScClick : scLocator=//IButton[ID=“isc_IButton_1”]/

[debug] modifyWindow seleniumMarker1319776224691:selenium1319776224694

[debug] _getFrameElement: frameElement=null

[debug] modifySeparateTestWindowToDetectPageLoads: already polling this window: selenium1319776224694

[debug] modifyWindow seleniumMarker1319776224691:undefined

[debug] _getFrameElement: frameElement=[object XPCNativeWrapper [object HTMLIFrameElement]]

[debug] frameElement.name=

[debug] modifySeparateTestWindowToDetectPageLoads: already polling this window: selenium1319776224704

[debug] modifyWindow seleniumMarker1319776224691:undefined

[debug] _getFrameElement: frameElement=[object XPCNativeWrapper [object HTMLIFrameElement]]

[debug] frameElement.name=

[debug] modifySeparateTestWindowToDetectPageLoads: already polling this window: selenium1319776224714

[debug] getCurrentWindow newPageLoaded = false

[debug] Locate Element with SC Locator=//IButton[ID=“isc_IButton_1”]/, inDocument=[object XPCNativeWrapper [object HTMLDocument]], inWindow=http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/showcase/#featured_complete_app

[error] Unexpected Exception: message -> autWindow is undefined, fileName -> chrome://selenium-ide/content/tools.js -> file:///C:/SmartGWT/smartgwtee-2.5/selenium/user-extensions.js, lineNumber -> 72, stack -> (“//IButton[ID="isc_IButton_1"]/”,[object XPCNativeWrapper],[object XPCNativeWrapper])@chrome://selenium-ide/content/tools.js -> file:///C:/SmartGWT/smartgwtee-2.5/selenium/user-extensions.js:72 (“sclocator”,“//IButton[ID="isc_IButton_1"]/”,[object XPCNativeWrapper],[object XPCNativeWrapper])@chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/selenium-browserbot.js:1295 (“sclocator”,“//IButton[ID="isc_IButton_1"]/”,[object XPCNativeWrapper],[object XPCNativeWrapper])@chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/selenium-browserbot.js:1466 ([object Object],[object XPCNativeWrapper])@chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/selenium-browserbot.js:1493 (“scLocator=//IButton[ID="isc_IButton_1"]/”)@chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/selenium-browserbot.js:1505 (“scLocator=//IButton[ID="isc_IButton_1"]/”,“”)@chrome://selenium-ide/content/tools.js -> file:///C:/SmartGWT/smartgwtee-2.5/selenium/user-extensions.js:119 (“scLocator=//IButton[ID="isc_IButton_1"]/”,“”)@chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/htmlutils.js:60 ([object Object],[object Object])@chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/selenium-commandhandlers.js:310 ()@chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/selenium-executionloop.js:112 (37)@chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/selenium-executionloop.js:78 (37)@chrome://selenium-ide/content/selenium-core/scripts/htmlutils.js:60 , name -> TypeError

[debug] testComplete: failed=false

Line 72 of user-extensions.js is:
var autWindow = this.getAutWindow();

Found that getAutWindow() code fails at this statement:
// If SmartClient isn’t loaded on the target window, just bail.
if (autWindow.isc == null) return;

So, it returns without defining a valid autWindow.
At this point, I do not know enough to understand what might be wrong.
I assume the SmartGWT Showcase is a SmartClient window, so I do not understand why getAutWindow fails.

Do you see anything obvious that I am overlooking?

Many thanks.
Tom Tschappler

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I’m embarrassed to find that my version of Firefox was VERY old.
After updating FF, Selenium record and playback with SmartGWT works fine.
Sorry for the noise.

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We’re glad you got it working!

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Are we certain that the browser version is the issue? I just got the same error using 3.6.23. If that is the case then I’ll look into getting a newer browser.

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It was the problem for ttschapp, however, he did not mention what version he was on. Still there ttschapp?

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I his first post he did mention using 3.6.23. I downloaded an updated version of firefox so I can execute my tests successfully now. Seems to not work with 3.6.23.

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I his first post he did mention using 3.6.23. I downloaded an updated version of firefox so I can execute my tests successfully now. Seems to not work with 3.6.23.

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I’m getting the same error.

What version of Firefox worked for you?

I’m using 7.0 with SmartGWT 4.0p 2013-10-05 and GWT 2.5.1

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I’m using SmartClient Version v9.0p_2013-09-20 with Firefox 22 and 25 and I’m getting the same error:

[error] Unexpected Exception: TypeError: autWindow is undefined. fileName -&gt; chrome://selenium-ide/content/tools.js -&gt; file:///M:/Docs/user-extensions.js?1384274803865, lineNumber -&gt; 82, columnNumber -&gt; 0

Any update on this matter?

Thanks

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We’re not seeing any issues of this kind with recent Firefox.

If you are seeing the issue, we’ll need a minimal, ready-to-run test case in order to investigate.

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I have searched extensively to solve a simple problem. I am trying to simply demonstrate Selenium IDE exercising a screen in the SmartGWT Showcase.
I must be overlooking something obvious.

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I have searched extensively to solve a simple problem. I am trying to simply demonstrate Selenium IDE exercising a screen in the SmartGWT Showcase.
I must be overlooking something obvious.