actions events don't register for ie9 virtual machine (windows 7)

[achung89]

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ie9 vm (windows 7) does not register 'actions.sendKeys'. Test indicates the suite passed, but input field is empty, and no onchange events are triggered. The behavior work on firefox and chrome running on the host machine, I haven't tried it with other ie/vm combinations yet.

Edit: running both server-standalone (v. 3.8.0) and iedriver (v.3.8.0) on the vm.

Output of gemini --version: 5.1.2 ...

Contents of `.gemini.js` file:
{
	"rootUrl": URL,
	"gridUrl": "http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub",
	"compositeImage": true,
	"browsers": {
		"ie9": {
			"gridUrl":VM_GRID + ':4444/wd/hub',
			"rootUrl":URL_for_VM,
			"desiredCapabilities":{
				"browserName": "internet explorer",
				"version": 9,
				"platform": "WINDOWS",
			}
		},
		// "chrome": {
		// 	"desiredCapabilities": {
		// 		"browserName": "chrome"
		// 	}
		// },

               ...
}

Test source code:

gemini.suite('suit 1', (suite) => {
  suite.setUrl('/')
      .before((actions, find) => {
        actions.executeJS(function (window) {
          var style = window.document.createElement('style');
          style.innerHTML = 'html { overflow: hidden; }';
          window.document.head.appendChild(style);
        })
      })
      .setCaptureElements('[data-test="main"]')
      .capture(`stepone: fill first-name`, (actions, find) => {
          var inputField = find(`[data-test="first-name"]`);
          actions.click(inputField)
                      .sendKeys(inputField, 'first-name');
  })
})

Command used to run the test:

gemini update

[achung89]

EDIT: works for ie10 and ie11

[sipayRT]

maybe it because of such selector? can you try to match on class instead of attributes?

[achung89]

hmmm tried it with id and class, it came back with the same results. Here are the things I have tried so far:

1. Using different combinations of iedriver and server-standalone versions (from 2.39 to 3.9.1)
2. Setting the selenium-server-standalone role to 'node' and hosting a hub on the host machine