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Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0

You're reading from   Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 Boost the performance and reliability of your automated checks by mastering Selenium WebDriver

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788299671
Length 376 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Creating a Fast Feedback Loop 2. Producing the Right Feedback When Failing FREE CHAPTER 3. Exceptions Are Actually Oracles 4. The Waiting Game 5. Working with Effective Page Objects 6. Utilizing the Advanced User Interactions API 7. JavaScript Execution with Selenium 8. Keeping It Real 9. Hooking Docker into Selenium 10. Selenium – the Future 11. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Contributing to Selenium 1. Appendix B: Working with JUnit 2. Appendix C: Introduction to Appium

WebDriverException – element is not clickable at point

This is an exception that you will generally only see in ChromeDriver. What has happened is that when Selenium has tried to click on an element, ChromeDriver has detected that the element that you tried to click will not actually get the click event because something else is in the way. There are a few possible causes of this:

  • Another element is layered on top of the element that you are trying to click
  • The screen has not finished rendering yet, and in this semi-rendered state something has temporarily covered the element you are trying to click on

The solution is to put in an explicit wait that waits for the element to become clickable:

By locator = By.id("someElement");
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(locator));

Once you know that the...

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