Adding explicit waits to selenium payment tests in order to wait for very slow js when running headless on ec2

payment/tests.py

@@ -67,30 +67,56 @@ def paySandbox(test, selenium, url, authorize=False):
         print "PAY SANDBOX"
     
     try:
+        # We need this sleep to make sure the JS engine is finished from the sandbox loging page
+        time.sleep(20)    
+
         selenium.get(url)
-        login_element = WebDriverWait(selenium, 10).until(lambda d : d.find_element_by_id("loadLogin"))
+        print "Opened URL %s" % url
+   
+        try:
+            # Button is only visible if the login box is NOT open
+            # If the login box is open, the email/pw fiels are already accessible
+            login_element = WebDriverWait(selenium, 30).until(lambda d : d.find_element_by_id("loadLogin"))
             login_element.click()
 
-        email_element = WebDriverWait(selenium, 10).until(lambda d : d.find_element_by_id("login_email"))
+            # This sleep is needed for js to slide the buyer login into view.  The elements are always in the DOM
+            # so selenium can find them, but we need them in view to interact
+            time.sleep(20)
+        except:
+            print "Ready for Login"
+
+        email_element = WebDriverWait(selenium, 60).until(lambda d : d.find_element_by_id("login_email"))
         email_element.click()
         email_element.send_keys(settings.PAYPAL_BUYER_LOGIN)
         
-        password_element = WebDriverWait(selenium, 10).until(lambda d : d.find_element_by_id("login_password"))
+        password_element = WebDriverWait(selenium, 60).until(lambda d : d.find_element_by_id("login_password"))
         password_element.click()
         password_element.send_keys(settings.PAYPAL_BUYER_PASSWORD)
 
-        submit_button = WebDriverWait(selenium, 10).until(lambda d : d.find_element_by_id("submitLogin"))
+        submit_button = WebDriverWait(selenium, 60).until(lambda d : d.find_element_by_id("submitLogin"))
         submit_button.click()
       
-        final_submit = WebDriverWait(selenium, 10).until(lambda d : d.find_element_by_id("submit.x"))
+        # This sleep makes sure js has time to animate out the next page
+        time.sleep(20)
+
+        final_submit = WebDriverWait(selenium, 60).until(lambda d : d.find_element_by_id("submit.x"))
         final_submit.click()
        
+        # This makes sure the processing of the final submit is complete
+        time.sleep(20)
+
+        # Don't wait too long for this, it isn't really needed.  By the time JS has gotten around to 
+        # displaying this element, the redirect has usually occured       
+        try:
             return_button = WebDriverWait(selenium, 10).until(lambda d : d.find_element_by_id("returnToMerchant"))
             return_button.click()
+        except:
+            blah = "blah"
         
     except:
         traceback.print_exc()
     
+    print "Tranasction Complete"
     
 class PledgeTest(TestCase):
     

selenium/INSTALL

@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 Instructions to install xvfb + jdk
 
 1) sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre-headless
-2) sudo apt-get install xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-cyrillic
+2) sudo apt-get install xfonts-base xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-cyrillic
 3) sudo apt-get install xvfb
-4) sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core
-5) sudo apt-get install firefox
-6) sudo cp xvfb /etc/init.d/xvfb
-7) sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/xvfb
-8) sudo cp selenium /etc/init.d/selenium
-9) sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/selenium
+4) sudo apt-get install firefox
+5) sudo cp xvfb /etc/init.d/xvfb
+6) sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/xvfb
+7) sudo cp selenium /etc/init.d/selenium
+8) sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/selenium
 
 Instructions to manually restart xvfb + selenium server
 
@@ -17,5 +16,5 @@ Instructions to manually restart xvfb + selenium server
 Create a link to auto start xvfb+selenium on startup
 
 1) sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/xvfb /etc/rc2.d/S66xvfb
-2) sudo ln -d /etc/init.d/selenium /etc/rc2.d/S67selenium
+2) sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/selenium /etc/rc2.d/S67selenium
 

selenium/xvfb

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ fi
 
 case "$1" in
 start)
-/usr/bin/Xvfb :99 -ac -screen 0 1024x768x8 &
+/usr/bin/Xvfb :99 -ac -screen 0 2048x2048x8 &
 ;;
 
 stop)