How can I ask the Selenium-WebDriver to wait for f

Question

I'm working on a Java Selenium-WebDriver. I added

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

and

WebElement textbox = driver.findElement(By.id("textbox"));

because my Applications takes few seconds to load the User Interface. So I set 2 seconds implicitwait. but I got unable to locate element textbox

Then I add Thread.sleep(2000);

Now it works fine. Which one is a better way?

Answer 1

Answer : wait for few seconds before element visibility using Selenium WebDriver go through below methods.

implicitlyWait() : WebDriver instance wait until full page load. You muse use 30 to 60 seconds to wait full page load.

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

ExplicitlyWait WebDriverWait() : WebDriver instance wait until full page load.

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 60);

wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOf(textbox));

driver.findElement(By.id("Year")).sendKeys(allKeys);

Note : Please use ExplicitlyWait WebDriverWait() to handle any particular WebElement.

Answer 2

Thread.sleep(1000);

is the worse: being a static wait, it will make test script slower.

driver.manage().timeouts.implicitlyWait(10,TimeUnit.SECONDS);

this is a dynamic wait

• it is valid till webdriver existence or has a scope till driver lifetime
• we can implicit wait also.

Finally, what I suggest is

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,20);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.<different canned or predefined conditions are there>);

with some predefined conditions:

isAlertPresent();
elementToBeSelected();
visibilityOfElementLocated();
visibilityOfAllElementLocatedBy();
frameToBeAvailableAndSwitchToIt();

• It is also dynamic wait
• in this the wait will only be in seconds
• we have to use explicit wait for a particular web element on which we want to use.

Answer 3

If using webdriverJs (node.js),

driver.findElement(webdriver.By.name('btnCalculate')).click().then(function() {
    driver.sleep(5000);
});

The code above makes browser wait for 5 seconds after clicking the button.

Answer 4

click appears to be blocking? - here's another way to wait if you're using WebDriverJS:

driver.findElement(webdriver.By.name('mybutton')).click().then(function(){
  driver.getPageSource().then(function(source) {
    console.log(source);
  });
});

The code above waits after the button is clicked for the next page to load and then grabs the source of the next page.

Answer 5

This thread is a bit older, but thought I'd post what I currently do (work in progress).

Though I'm still hitting situations where the system is under heavy load and when I click a submit button (e.g., login.jsp), all three conditions (see below) return true but the next page (e.g., home.jsp) hasn't started loading yet.

This is a generic wait method that takes a list of ExpectedConditions.

public boolean waitForPageLoad(int waitTimeInSec, ExpectedCondition<Boolean>... conditions) {
    boolean isLoaded = false;
    Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<>(driver)
            .withTimeout(waitTimeInSec, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
            .ignoring(StaleElementReferenceException.class)
            .pollingEvery(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    for (ExpectedCondition<Boolean> condition : conditions) {
        isLoaded = wait.until(condition);
        if (isLoaded == false) {
            //Stop checking on first condition returning false.
            break;
        }
    }
    return isLoaded;
}

I have defined various reusable ExpectedConditions (three are below). In this example, the three expected conditions include document.readyState = 'complete', no "wait_dialog" present, and no 'spinners' (elements indicating async data is being requested).

Only the first one can be generically applied to all web pages.

/**
 * Returns 'true' if the value of the 'window.document.readyState' via
 * JavaScript is 'complete'
 */
public static final ExpectedCondition<Boolean> EXPECT_DOC_READY_STATE = new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
    @Override
    public Boolean apply(WebDriver driver) {
        String script = "if (typeof window != 'undefined' && window.document) { return window.document.readyState; } else { return 'notready'; }";
        Boolean result;
        try {
            result = ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript(script).equals("complete");
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            result = Boolean.FALSE;
        }
        return result;
    }
};
/**
 * Returns 'true' if there is no 'wait_dialog' element present on the page.
 */
public static final ExpectedCondition<Boolean> EXPECT_NOT_WAITING = new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
    @Override
    public Boolean apply(WebDriver driver) {
        Boolean loaded = true;
        try {
            WebElement wait = driver.findElement(By.id("F"));
            if (wait.isDisplayed()) {
                loaded = false;
            }
        } catch (StaleElementReferenceException serex) {
            loaded = false;
        } catch (NoSuchElementException nseex) {
            loaded = true;
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            loaded = false;
            System.out.println("EXPECTED_NOT_WAITING: UNEXPECTED EXCEPTION: " + ex.getMessage());
        }
        return loaded;
    }
};
/**
 * Returns true if there are no elements with the 'spinner' class name.
 */
public static final ExpectedCondition<Boolean> EXPECT_NO_SPINNERS = new ExpectedCondition<Boolean>() {
    @Override
    public Boolean apply(WebDriver driver) {
        Boolean loaded = true;
        try {
        List<WebElement> spinners = driver.findElements(By.className("spinner"));
        for (WebElement spinner : spinners) {
            if (spinner.isDisplayed()) {
                loaded = false;
                break;
            }
        }
        }catch (Exception ex) {
            loaded = false;
        }
        return loaded;
    }
};

Depending on the page, I may use one or all of them:

waitForPageLoad(timeoutInSec,
            EXPECT_DOC_READY_STATE,
            EXPECT_NOT_WAITING,
            EXPECT_NO_SPINNERS
    );

There are also predefined ExpectedConditions in the following class: org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions

Answer 6

I prefer the following code to wait for 2 seconds.

for(int i=0; i<2 && driver.findElements(By.id("textbox")).size()==0 ; i++){
   Thread.sleep(1000);
}