Fitness: Different Exceptions Fitnesseoutput vs. Console

Question

I wrote a simple Fitnesse tes which works fine. Today I found that there is a difference in the error which shown by the fitnesse generated output page (NoSuchElementException) and the output shown by the console (java.lang.Exception). Any idea what causes this and how can I make sure the correct error is shown by the console as well?

The situation is like this.

In my content file I have a line like:

 |check|field exists|testknop|true|

The corresponding method in my fixture looks like:

public boolean fieldExists(String fieldName) {
    // Als het element niet gevonden kan worden treed eer een exception op dus assert is niet
    // nodig
    driver.findElement(By.id(fieldName));
    // sluit driver weer af
    driver.quit();
    return false;
}

Now the generated fitnesse report the line is marked yellow, containing a stacktrace with a selenium NoSuchElementException.

When I run it from maven I get a generic java.lang.Exception

Thanks

Answer 1

I managed to find a solution that works for me.

The porblem was that the driver.findElement(By.id(fieldName)); causes an exception sometimes.

When I change the test and code as I posted below it works for mee.

|check|field exists|testknop|inloggen gelukt|


public String fieldExists(String fieldName) {
    // Als het element niet gevonden kan worden treed eer een exception op dus assert is niet
    // nodig
    try {
        driver.findElement(By.id(fieldName));
    } catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
        return "Inloggen mislukt";
    }
    // sluit driver weer af
    driver.quit();
    return "inloggen gelukt";
}