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user3262242

Reputation: 184

IE 11 performance in robot framework

The performance of my scripts is very slow when running on IE11. Some of my scripts run on chrome in 2-3 mins and that takes more than 25 minutes on IE. I am using Robot Framework and most of my locators are xpath. My application does not have ID locators for the elements. I tried switching to CSS for experimental purpose but that improved the performance by little margin. I understand that since IE does not have a native xpath engine, IEdriverserver uses wicked-good-xpath for parsing. This xpath library is supposed to be the fastest. Is there any other modification/enhancement I can do to improve the performance of my scripts.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 545

Answers (1)

Saurabh Gaur
Saurabh Gaur

Reputation: 23835

If You are using 64-bit IEdriverserver, You need to replace it with 32-bit of IEdriverserver because 64-bit of IEdriverserver is very very slow for the execution.

IE driver to determine the root cause. When you are running IE 10 or higher on a 64-bit version of Windows, by default the process which hosts the containing window that includes the browser chrome (address bar, navigation buttons, menus, etc.) is a 64-bit process. The process which hosts the window where content is actually rendered (within each tab) is a 32-bit process.

Some notes. Careful readers will have already realized that this means that even when you are running 64-bit Windows, you're likely using a 32-bit version of IE to render the content. This is a powerful argument for continuing to use the 32-bit version of the IE driver for IE 10 and above: you're not actually running against a 64-bit version of IE.

If you insist that you must run the 64-bit version of IEDriverServer.exe, you can disable native events by setting the nativeEvents capability to false using whatever mechanism your language binding provides for this.

Hope it helps..:)

Upvotes: 1

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