Issue with WebDriverJS sendKeys

I’m currently working on the TodoMVC Angular 2 implementation, you can see the work in progress via this pull request: https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/pull/1558

The TodoMVC project uses WebDriverJS in order to automate the testing of each implementation. Unfortunately Angular 2.0 is failing due to some very strange issue. Here’s a very simple automated test that illustrates the issue:

var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');

var driver = new webdriver.Builder().
   withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome()).
   build();

driver.get('http://colineberhardt.github.io/angular2-todo/');
driver.sleep(1000); // sleep to give the app time to bootstrap
var input = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.className('new-todo'));
input.sendKeys('buy some eggs', webdriver.Key.ENTER);
input.sendKeys('do the shopping', webdriver.Key.ENTER);
input.sendKeys('test all things', webdriver.Key.ENTER);
driver.sleep(10000); // sleep so that we can see the results
driver.quit();

(The above test is executed against a simplified version of the TodoMVC app, which can be found here).

Unfortunately the text input become completely mangled after the first addition of ‘buy some eggs’:

I have tried all sorts of changes to the TodoMVC app itself, however, the only way I can make the tests work is to add a pause in-between each keystroke:

var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');

var driver = new webdriver.Builder().
   withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome()).
   build();

driver.get('http://todomvc.com/examples/angular2/');
driver.sleep(1000); // sleep so that we can eliminate startup issues
var input = driver.findElement(webdriver.By.className('new-todo'));

function sendSlowly(text) {
  for (var i = 0, len = text.length; i < len; i++) {
    input.sendKeys(text[i]);
    driver.sleep(1);
  }
  input.sendKeys(webdriver.Key.ENTER);
  driver.sleep(1);
}

sendSlowly('buy some eggs');
sendSlowly('do the shopping');
sendSlowly('test all things');
driver.sleep(10000); // sleep so that we can see the results
driver.quit();

This gives the expected result, with three items added to the todo list.

Does anyone have any ideas? I’d love to get the TodoMVC Angular2 app updated!

[juliemr]

I am now unable to reproduce this with RC2/RC3. I think the issues has been fixed. Please open a new bug if you can show us a reproducible test case. Thanks!

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