NoSuchElementException is occurred during implementation of InternetExplorerDriver in Selenium WebDriver

Question

Currently, I am working on WebDriver to invoke IE browser to run the testing. But I received a NoSuchElementException when I tried to run the simple example below.

However, the code just worked fine if I used Chrome Driver or Firefox driver. Any idea or thought would be appreciated.

Jar: selenium-server-standalone-2.5.0.jar

Code:

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
  DesiredCapabilities ieCapabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
  ieCapabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);
  WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(ieCapabilities);
  driver.get("www.google.com");
  driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
}

Error message:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Unable to find element with name == q (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html
Build info: version: '2.5.0', revision: '13516', time: '2011-08-23 18:29:57'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.6.0_25'
Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:131)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:105)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:409)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:197)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElementByName(RemoteWebDriver.java:246)
    at org.openqa.selenium.By$ByName.findElement(By.java:298)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.findElement(RemoteWebDriver.java:189)
    at lib.WebDriver2.main(WebDriver2.java:14)

Answer 1

You've explicitly avoided having to set the Protected Mode settings of IE. That's what the InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS capability setting does. When you remove this capability setting and set the Protected Mode settings as documented in the project wiki, it seems the problem resolves itself.