Selenium FAQ Collection (2)

1. Handling browser pop-up windows with Selenium

We are running Selenium regression tests against our existing code base, and certain screens in our web app use pop-ups for intermediate steps.

Currently we use the commands in the test:

// force new window to open at this point - so we can select it later selenium().getEval("this.browserbot.getCurrentWindow().open('', 'enquiryPopup')"); selenium().click("//input[@value='Submit']"); selenium().waitForPopUp("enquiryPopup", getWaitTime()); selenium().selectWindow("enquiryPopup"); 

…which works most of the time. Occasionally the test will fail on the waitForPopUp() line with

com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleniumException: Permission denied 

Can anyone suggest a better, more reliable method?

Also, we primarily run these tests on IE6 and 7

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