AlloyApplicantPortletTester "all fields required" selenium test intermittent failure with Liferay DXP 7.4

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: bridge-impl-5.0.0
• Fix Version/s: bridge-impl-5.0.0, bridge-impl-6.0.0, bridge-impl-4.3.0
• Component/s: Liferay Faces Bridge Impl / Demos / Tests
• Labels: None

Problem Background

When running the AlloyApplicantPortletTester with Liferay DXP 7.4 U16 with the 5.x version of the bridge (Portlet 3.0 + JSF 2.2), an intermittent org.openqa.selenium.TimeoutException would get thrown in the runApplicantPortletTest_E_AllFieldsRequired() method when the submit button was clicked (which happens just after all the fields were cleared). This problem was not reproducible manually - it only happened during automated testing via Selenium.

Workaround

Since this was judged to not be a software defect in the bridge, the workaround was to surround the button click with a try...catch block. If a TimeoutException happened, then the button was simply clicked again.