Selenium python test hung up on url in cronjob

Question

My automated tests get hung up on the .get(url) command randomly. I run several test suites everyday against 60+ different urls (each suite) and a handful will fail to get the url after initializing the browser. The browser url will simply read:

data:;

Now if I start these tests from the command line and this happens, eventually the test will attempt to click a button that doesn't exist and the test will fail, the browser will close, and the tests will continue as normal. This is acceptable to me.

However, if I start the tests from a cronjob, the test will get hung up forever and stop executing - no more logs, no more tests, no more cpu usage. This means that I cannot run the tests automatically which is an issue for me.

I've already attempted setting up 'retries' and starting the tests from a python script rather than bash script, which did not solve the issue.

Setup:

• Selenium 3.0.2
• Google Chrome 54
• Python 3.6
• Chromedriver 2.29 (and cannot switch to Firefox or any other browser)
• Kick off tests from bash script
• Run tests inside python's Unit Test and get url in setup

Here is an example test setup:

self.driver = webdriver.Chrome()
self.driver.get(URL)

Thanks for your help. I've navigated every webpage on the internet dealing with this issue and found no satisfactory conclusion.

• Anish Goyal: Did you ever resolve this issue? I'm currently running into it on my end

Answer 1

According to the Chromium page, the ChromeDriver 2.29 supports Chrome v56-58.

Probably, you will have to downgrade your ChromeDriver or upgrade the Chrome (the latter is better, in general).

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