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Sahi ant vs playback
mohisham
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Hello,
I am fairly new to Sahi, but my company has been using it for some time now. I looked at the scripts that have been written, and I see a lot of "_wait()" statements. I asked why these were there, and I was told that they wait for the page to render.
Now, I looked at Sahi documentation and it said that you don't need to wait for page to load or even ajax calls. So i used the sahi browser client, loaded one of the script files (from which i had removed all "_wait" statements) and used Playback. The script ran fine, and a lot faster (obviously).
But, in our build environment, if i remove the "_wait" statements, the tests fail. The difference i saw was that in our build environment (which is on Hudson) we use the Ant sahi task to execute the script. When the "_wait" statement is removed, it keeps failing as it cannot find certain elements on the page (which probably means the page has not loaded completely). The "_wait" solves this, by waiting for the page to load completely.
What is the difference between the 2 methods, playback vs ant? And is there any solution to this?
Thanks.
I am fairly new to Sahi, but my company has been using it for some time now. I looked at the scripts that have been written, and I see a lot of "_wait()" statements. I asked why these were there, and I was told that they wait for the page to render.
Now, I looked at Sahi documentation and it said that you don't need to wait for page to load or even ajax calls. So i used the sahi browser client, loaded one of the script files (from which i had removed all "_wait" statements) and used Playback. The script ran fine, and a lot faster (obviously).
But, in our build environment, if i remove the "_wait" statements, the tests fail. The difference i saw was that in our build environment (which is on Hudson) we use the Ant sahi task to execute the script. When the "_wait" statement is removed, it keeps failing as it cannot find certain elements on the page (which probably means the page has not loaded completely). The "_wait" solves this, by waiting for the page to load completely.
What is the difference between the 2 methods, playback vs ant? And is there any solution to this?
Thanks.