Merge pull request #205 from edx/christina/advanced-settings-test

Sometimes the first click doesn't actually work, so call click up to 5 t...

cms/djangoapps/contentstore/features/advanced-settings.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #pylint: disable=W0621
 
 from lettuce import world, step
-from nose.tools import assert_false, assert_equal, assert_regexp_matches
+from nose.tools import assert_false, assert_equal, assert_regexp_matches, assert_true
 from common import type_in_codemirror
 
 KEY_CSS = '.key input.policy-key'
@@ -28,7 +28,14 @@ def i_am_on_advanced_course_settings(step):
 @step(u'I press the "([^"]*)" notification button$')
 def press_the_notification_button(step, name):
     css = 'a.%s-button' % name.lower()
-    world.css_click(css)
+
+    # Save was clicked if either the save notification bar is gone, or we have a error notification
+    # overlaying it (expected in the case of typing Object into display_name).
+    save_clicked = lambda : world.is_css_not_present('.is-shown.wrapper-notification-warning') or \
+        world.is_css_present('.is-shown.wrapper-notification-error')
+
+    assert_true(world.css_click(css, success_condition=save_clicked),
+        'The save button was not clicked after 5 attempts.')
 
 
 @step(u'I edit the value of a policy key$')

common/djangoapps/terrain/ui_helpers.py

@@ -58,10 +58,16 @@ def css_find(css, wait_time=5):
 
 
 @world.absorb
-def css_click(css_selector, index=0, attempts=5):
+def css_click(css_selector, index=0, attempts=5, success_condition=lambda:True):
     """
-    Perform a click on a CSS selector, retrying if it initially fails
-    This function will return if the click worked (since it is try/excepting all errors)
+    Perform a click on a CSS selector, retrying if it initially fails.
+
+    This function handles errors that may be thrown if the component cannot be clicked on.
+    However, there are cases where an error may not be thrown, and yet the operation did not
+    actually succeed. For those cases, a success_condition lambda can be supplied to verify that the click worked.
+
+    This function will return True if the click worked (taking into account both errors and the optional
+    success_condition).
     """
     assert is_css_present(css_selector)
     attempt = 0
@@ -69,6 +75,7 @@ def css_click(css_selector, index=0, attempts=5):
     while attempt < attempts:
         try:
             world.css_find(css_selector)[index].click()
+            if success_condition():
                 result = True
                 break
         except WebDriverException: