From: Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@...>
Date: 2010-12-23T15:54:44+09:00
Subject: Re: how to know a search result is successfully displayed through its source codes

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Fan Jin <jeff_yq@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Gordon Thiesfeld wrote in post #970057:
>> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Fan Jin <jeff_yq@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>> Jeremy Bopp wrote in post #969808:
>>>
>>> Yes, the library I am using here is watir, but the two times which I
>>> caught from click and result return are properly not right, they are
>>> identical even the interface's response time is longer than 2s.
>>> The method I used here was ping the HTTP server, once the result was
>>> returned, the happened time was caught.
>>> Need your more help, thanks :>
>>>
>>
>> If you post some code, folks might be better able to help you.
>
> The codes I wrote was following:
>  #set a key word in search field, then click the search button.
>  browser.text_field(:id, 'simpleSearchInput').set('test')
>  browser.link(:id,'simpleSearchSubmit').click
>  t1 = Time.now # get the time when button is clicked.
>  Watir::Wait.until{browser.div(:id, 'srpWrapper').exists?}#wait until
> the search result list is loaded, here I used div(:id) to ensure that
> result is finish loading.
>  t2 = Time.now # give the time t2.
>  t = t2 - t1 # This is the system responding time.
>  puts "the system response time is: " + t.to_s
>
> Although the codes run well, the time it returns is almost
> the same. I think there is a method in watir which can get the time of
> response directly after a new webpage was loaded. Need folks help.Thanks
>
> Jin Fan
>
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>

Some resources for you:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4177070/i-want-to-calculate-the-page-load-time-in-watir-or-selenium
http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/How+to+wait+with+Watir

The click method waits for the page to load.  That's why you're not
seeing any time difference between t1 and t2.  The page is already
loaded, so Watcher::Wait.until returns immediately.

Also, the click method returns the load time, so you could write it like this:

    browser.text_field(:id, 'simpleSearchInput').set('test')
    t = browser.link(:id,'simpleSearchSubmit').click

    puts "the system response time is: #{t.to_s}"