Selenium Wait – Implicit, Explicit and Fluent Waits With Example

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Synchronization in Selenium WebDriver

Selenium Wait – Implicit, Explicit and Fluent Waits, Thread.sleep

We will learn In this tutorial : 

• Types of Wait in Selenium 
• Why Do We Need Waits In Selenium? 
• Implicit Wait 
• Explicit Wait 
• Fluent Wait 
• Difference Between Implicit Wait Vs Explicit Wait

Types of Wait in Selenium 

There are Three types of wait available in Selenium Webdriver.

• Implicit Wait
• Explicit Wait
• Fluent Waits
• Thread.sleep(not selenium Wait - Java Wait)

Implicit Wait in Selenium With Example

Define Wait time globally.

Implicit Wait tells the Selenium WebDriver to wait for (e.g. 5 sec) a certain measure of time before throwing an exception.

Syntax of Implicit wait

The basic Syntax of Implicit wait in the Selenium web driver is given below.

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

Example of Implicit Wait in Selenium Webdriver

Explicit Wait in Selenium With Example

Define the wait Time for a specific element.

Expected Conditions in Explicit Wait

• alertIsPresent()
• elementSelectionStateToBe()
• elementToBeClickable()
• elementToBeSelected()
• frameToBeAvaliableAndSwitchToIt()
• invisibilityOfTheElementLocated()
• invisibilityOfElementWithText()
• presenceOfAllElementsLocatedBy()
• presenceOfElementLocated()
• textToBePresentInElement()
• textToBePresentInElementLocated()
• textToBePresentInElementValue()
• titleIs()
• titleContains()
• visibilityOf()
• visibilityOfAllElements()
• visibilityOfAllElementsLocatedBy()
• visibilityOfElementLocated()

Syntax of Explicit wait

The basic Syntax of Explicit wait in the Selenium web driver is given below.

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,30); wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.xpath("//div[contains(text(),'COMPOSE')]")));

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