Automated testing : Firing file selector

[Joel]

We're using Selenium to do automated testing. We've been seeing flaky behavior around performing a click on the input field - could potentially be timing-related.

I was wondering if you guys have any suggestions / gotchas of performing automated testing of the upload control.

[Petyo]

Hello,

The upload control does not do anything fancy (like flash or other ActiveX). It is just an invisible absolutely positioned HTML input type="file". Can you please try to turn the widget off, and see if the problem persists?

Regards,
Petyo
the Telerik team

[Joel]

It was a timing-related issue. The animation on the display fadeIn via the window control was what was causing the issue. Thanks for your quick response, nonetheless.