I reported this quite awhile ago and it's an issue that we still deal with frequently. My primary application pre-fills the user and password fields with "User ID" and "Password". When a user clicks in these fields, the field is cleared out.
WPM fails to login at least 10 percent of the time because the routine to clear out the field doesn't trigger.
It was explained to me that this is an issue with the way IE works and javascript focus. If there is another test (#2) running at the same time, the focus could be taken away from the test #1 and the text "User ID" is re-entered into the username field which was previously blanked out. So for example, the login ID ends up getting sent as "JohnDoeUser Id".
To get around this, I've made use of an alternative login page that doesn't pre-fill these fields. This worked for awhile but the developers are forgetful, and they updated the form to work like the main form and broke all of my tests. I got them to back that change out but it was still annoying and time consuming to deal with.
What prompted this post was my trying to monitor yet another application that does the same thing. This application doesn't have an alternative form to use, so I am going to have to wait months for one to be provided which means I can't use WPM to monitor it until then.
I'm hoping that maybe someone is working on a way to update the player to work around this IE limitation? I keep seeing this issue not just with login, but with forms all through our application. And we of course don't like using a different login method/page from the one that all of our customers are using. I believe support for a different browser would also fix this issue?
Thanks for any input...