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I have a test script in Robot Framework which I want to reduce its elapsed time. I have below command as a part of the test procedure: wait until element is enabled id=${elementId} In run time, it takes about 5 seconds to be done; I've set selenium implicit wait to 2 seconds using below line at the beginning of the test: set selenium implicit wait 2 seconds I get the applied selenium implicit wait afterwards with get selenium implicit wait and it returns 2 seconds , but the first command still takes about 5 seconds to complete. What should I do to reduce this time?? Any help or suggestion will

I have following issue: I have a checkbox which is hidden and there is another layer used to make it nice and shiny I can easily change its value by accessing its ID however I also need to access this element using my custom locator which uses xpath (that has to stay variable) So, here's my script: Custom Select Checkbox id=my_checkbox #that works fine Custom Select Checkbox customLocatorStrat #that doesn't work at all *** Keywords *** Custom Select Checkbox [Arguments] ${locator} ${timeout}=${global_timeout} Execute Javascript document.getElementById("${resultLocator}").checked = true; OR $

I'm trying to run chrome headless with my robot framework tests suites. I managed to do it independtly with python using selenium as follows: options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() options.add_argument('--headless') my_driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executer=my_remote_address, desired_capabilities=options.to_capabilities) The following code is what I did in robot but didn't work: ${options}= Evaluate sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions() sys, selenium.webdriver ${options.add_argument}= Set Variable add_argument=--headless Create WebDriver Chrome chrome_options=${options} Open

I am centralizing all particular XPath strings to a resource file and importing the variables in that resource file in my test suite (robot framework). This way, they can be maintained in one place and I can use variable names that make the robot file readable. Is that something that is good practice? Sometimes I want to pass an argument to the variable, to make it more dynamic. However, the value of the variable contains and XPath, which sometimes has //div[path...etc][text()='MyString']. Question: In the robot file, how to pass an argument ('MyString') to the Click Element method that is

I need to click on element based on what value it contains..but I want to set this value in test run or keyword definition (best option is in the test I guess) How should I do it? the variable containing xpath should look like that: ${DROPDOWN ITEMS} xpath=//*[contains(@class,'listitem-element')]/span[contains(text(),'${second_number}')] This locator works when I replace the variable with actual number like '002', but I want to have it more general.. In keyword definition I use it like: Choose Value From Dropdown focus ${DROPDOWN ITEMS} click element ${DROPDOWN ITEMS} and in test I just call