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Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide

You're reading from   Selenium WebDriver 3 Practical Guide End-to-end automation testing for web and mobile browsers with Selenium WebDriver

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788999762
Length 280 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Satya Avasarala Satya Avasarala
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Pallavi Sharma Pallavi Sharma
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UNMESH GUNDECHA UNMESH GUNDECHA
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing WebDriver and WebElements 2. Different Available WebDrivers FREE CHAPTER 3. Using Java 8 Features with Selenium 4. Exploring the Features of WebDriver 5. Exploring Advanced Interactions of WebDriver 6. Understanding WebDriver Events 7. Exploring RemoteWebDriver 8. Setting up Selenium Grid 9. The PageObject Pattern 10. Mobile Testing on iOS and Android using Appium 11. Data-Driven Testing with TestNG 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Waiting for WebElements to load

If you have a previous UI automation experience, I'm sure you would have come across a situation where your test script couldn't find an element on the web page because the web page was still loading. This could happen due to various reasons. One classic example is when the application server or web server is serving the page too slowly due to resource constraints; the other could be when you are accessing the page on a very slow network. The reason could be that the element on the web page is not loaded by the time your test script tries to find it. This is where you have to calculate and configure the average wait time for your test scripts to wait for WebElements to load on the web page.

WebDriver provides test-script developers with a very handy feature to manage wait time. Wait time is the time your driver will wait for the WebElement...

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