756183 - Robocop: loadUrl sometimes fails

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Testing :: General, defect)

Description

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

BaseTest.loadUrl(url) fails occasionally (about 1 in 1000 times for me, running locally on Galaxy S). If I call loadUrl() repeatedly in a loop, 99%+ of the calls succeed, but on occasion, the url is entered in the awesome bar, but no page load is initiated. It looks like the ENTER key press was lost.

Comment 1

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

Of note, I have never seen a URL mistyped / missing a character. Only the Enter ever seems to be lost.

loadUrl handles Enter differently from the url string; I note 2 particularly differences:
1. url is sent with Actions.sendKeys; Enter is sent with Actions.sendSpecialKey
2. Enter is sent after an EventExpecter is created (for DOMContentLoaded)

I am looking into 1 first: using sendKeys("\n"); so far, it appears to be no worse than sendSpecialKey.

Comment 2

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

See bugs 756704 and 758405 for other issues that might cause loadUrl failures (but with slightly different symptoms).

Comment 3

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

I am no longer able to reproduce this behavior. I think one of the related bugs must have fixed it somehow.