PhantomJS and Selenium Webdriver - How to clear session

java testing selenium phantomjs ghostdriver
schlingel picture schlingel · Apr 3, 2014 · Viewed 11k times · Source

I'm using Selenium Webdriver (Java) and PhantomJS to test a complex JS driven website. My problem is, that the PhantomJS browser keeps the session between two tests which leads to errors in the test setup.

If I run the tests with Firefox everything works fine because Firefox uses a clean session for every test case.

My first attempt to solve the problem was to just clear the local storage by JS injection. Cookies are deleted by the Selenium exposed API driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();

But executing JavaScript without visiting a page is not allowed. So starting the browser at "about:blank" leads to an error.

So, how do I configure my phantomjs webdriver to clear the session?

I'm using phantomjs and webdriver because the selenium-grid services turned out to be not stable enough. So I start my phantomjs instance like that:

phantomjs --webdriver=1234

Answer

oberlies picture oberlies · May 15, 2014

The fact that PhantomJS keeps sessions between tests is a known problem in GhostDriver, the Selenium Webdriver implementation in PhantomJS.

I suppose that this problem will be fixed with the PhantomJS 2 release. The bug is already fixed in GhostDriver 1.1.1, but there is no PhantomJS version which includes this GhostDriver version.

Related questions

Switch tabs using Selenium WebDriver with Java

Using Selenium WebDriver with JAVA. I am trying to automate a functionality where I have to open a new tab do some operations there and come back to previous tab (Parent). I used switch handle but it's not working. And …

Read More
How to get HTML code of a WebElement in Selenium

I am new at testing so my apologies in advance if my question sounds a bit primary. I am using Selenium and Java to write a test. I know that webElement.getAttribute("innerHTML"); brings me the innerHTML, for example for …

Read More
Running a single test in maven -> No tests were executed!

When I run a single test in Maven with this command: mvn test -Dtest=InitiateTest I'm getting the following result: No tests were executed! It worked a couple of minutes ago, but now it stopped working for some reason. I …

Read More