Demo website is too slow- E-commerce

[frmonteiro]

Hello,

I’m trying to create some test cases using the demo e-commerce platform but it is too slow.
Because of that, katalon studio fails to record any steps done in the web page and also cannot capture objects in the spy mode.

Any idea of what is causing this issue?

Thank you in advance,
Francisco

[Elly_Tran]

Hi,

Welcome to our community. Can you please explain in more detail as well as provide the error log, …? Are you facing it with Katalon Academy?

[dineshh]

kindly share the demo e-commerce platform url, html files , any additional logs

[frmonteiro]

Yes, I am going through the Katalon Academy.
I don’t have the logs. If I just open the url (https://cms.demo.katalon.com/) in a browser, it is super slow. It takes almost 30s to just go from the home page to the “My account” page.

[kazurayam]

@frmonteiro

I just open the url (https://cms.demo.katalon.com/ ) in a browser, it is super slow.

Ah, yes, it is.

I checked the URL with the Lighthouse of Google Chrome.

Easily found that there are a lot of rooms for performance improvements.

In other words, this url is a good testbed to learn how to make use of the Lighthouse tool. The Lighthouse is amazingly useful to point out how to improve websites performance.

[grylion54]

The speed of the demo e-commerce site should have nothing to do with you not being able to record any steps, but it will have a lot to do with your ability to “play back” your script. As I have mentioned to others, the recorder is only a starting place. Then you have to flush the code out, like I mention here:

iframe could not be located in SAP Web UI

Perhaps your script is too fast for your browser, so you may have to wait for your browser to “catch up”. You will have to insert statements like: WebUI.waitForPageLoad(10) // when you move to a new page WebUI.waitForElementVisible(findTestObject(...), 10) WebUI.waitForElementClickable(findTestObject(...), 10) WebUI.waitForElementPresent(findTestObject(...), 10) in places where you are moving to new pages and where events are happening that elements “appear” that were not there before, a…

If you cannot capture objects with the Web Spy, then again, that is not linked to the speed of the web site either. In this case, start with the F12 key and use DevTools.

How to identify an element this is already present in a list by using one of the Xpath types in Katalon

To investigate, start DevTools to review your HTML; either hit the F12 key, click on “Open DevTools”, then use either CTRL + SHIFT + C or click on the first icon within DevTools that looks like a rectangle with a pointer moving into it. Then move your mouse pointer to an element. Click on the element to have the HTML display that element. Or you can hover over the element to have the information displayed. Another method that may work, you can right click on an element and choose, Inspect. Then…

[anon46315158]

@grylion54

The speed of the demo e-commerce site should have nothing to do with you not being able to record any steps

We agree that we disagree.
I suppose, here, by the ‘demo site’ we refer to:
https://cms.demo.katalon.com/

Did some quick look on it with the devtools.
Altough i have a pretty decent internet conection provided by my ISP, the latencies I saw on this website are … oh well.
feel free to play and convince yourself.

If that will be a real AUT at my work, i will say “cannot be tested, please fix this garbage first”
@Elly_Tran that is supposed to be a demo site put at the disposal of new users to start learning katalon features.
What they should learn? Patience? How a site should not be designed? Or how a site should not be hosted?