https://heemayl.net/enContents © 2024 <a href="mailto:me@heemayl.net">Readul Hasan Chayan [Heemayl]</a> <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" target="_blank"> <img alt="Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA" style="border-width:0; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px;" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png"></a> Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:03:10 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://heemayl.net/posts/nightwatchjs-selenium-e2e-test-input-field-clearing-issue/Readul Hasan Chayan [Heemayl]<div><p>While doing the e2e (end to end) tests for a <a href="https://vuejs.org/">Vue.JS</a> frontend, I bumped into something interesting, which was really fun to fix/find a workaround for.</p> <p>Firstly, for the e2e tests, I've used <a href="http://nightwatchjs.org/">Nightwatch.js</a>, which uses the Selenium API, and is written in Node.js.</p> <p>The problem was that, I was not being able to clear some <code>input</code> tag field data using the API provided by Nightwatch -- <a href="http://nightwatchjs.org/api/clearValue.html"><code>browser.clearValue</code></a>. For example:</p> <pre class="code literal-block">browser.clearValue('input[type="text"]') </pre> <p><a href="https://heemayl.net/posts/nightwatchjs-selenium-e2e-test-input-field-clearing-issue/">Read more…</a> (1 min remaining to read)</p></div>e2efrontendnightwatchseleniumtestvue_jshttps://heemayl.net/posts/nightwatchjs-selenium-e2e-test-input-field-clearing-issue/Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:42:58 GMT