Handle Popups and Alert messages from selenium rc

Pop-Upsare classified into three types.

1.)JavaScript alerts:

By default Selenium suppress the alerts during test execution, so not visible on the browser. If the alerts are not handled properly Selenium through following exception "com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleniumException: ERROR: There was an unexpected Confirmation! [Do you want to Continue?]". This alert is further classified into "ok" , "ok and cancel" alert. This alert can be handled in the following way.

assertEquals("Saved Sucessfully!", s.getAlert()); // After click

s.chooseOkOnNextConfirmation(); // Before Click

s.chooseCancelOnNextConfirmation(); // Before Click

s.getConfirmation(); // After click

For "ok and cancel" alert, you need to consume the alert with "s.getConfirmation();" other wise it will display the exception saying "ERROR: There was an unexpected Confirmation!". Basically you should be using two statements: (ok/cancel)conformation before the click and consume after the click.

If you insert an alert statement when there is no alert on the web page, selenium will display following exception - com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleniumException: ERROR: There were no alerts

2.)HTML Pop-Ups using JQuery or other techniques :

Here popup is constructed using div and is visible on the screen. This can be handled in the following way

s.click("popup_ok")    

s.click("popup_cancel")

3.)Windows Pop-Ups :

These are windows based popup and is visible on the screen. Selenium is not capable to handle this kind of pop-up, need to use AutoItv3. To handle this pop-up record the script in AutoItv3, convert into exe format and then call from Java program.

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:\\OKbtn.exe ");

WinWaitActive("#32770", "Message from webpage",10)

WinFlash("Message from webpage","", 4, 500) ; Just to Flash the window

ControlClick("Message from webpage", "","[CLASS:Button; INSTANCE:1]");

AlertBox:

Global.selenium.chooseOkOnNextConfirmation();

Global.selenium.click("alert");

System.out.println("Clicked on OK button in alert box");

String alert=Global.selenium.getAlert();//This is needed as If an confirmation is generated but you do not consume it with getConfirmation, the next Selenium action will fail.

Global.selenium.type("lastname", "sravan");

Thread.sleep(10000); //just for to see actions by selenium. Not needed

Same way you can handle both prompt and confirmation boxes.