How can I ask the Selenium-WebDriver to wait for few seconds in Java

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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

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Using Thread sleep 2000   is an unconditional wait  If your test loads faster you will still have to wait  So in principle using implicitlyWait is the better solution   However  I don t see why implicitlyWait does not work in your case  Did you measure if the findElement actually takes two seconds before throwing an exception  If so  can you try to use WebDriver s conditional wait as described in this answer

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Well  there are two types of wait  explicit and implicit wait   The idea of explicit wait is    WebDriverWait until condition-that-finds-the-element     The concept of implicit wait is  driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 10  TimeUnit SECONDS     You can get difference in details here   In such situations I d prefer using explicit wait  fluentWait in particular    public WebElement fluentWait final By locator        Wait lt WebDriver gt  wait   new FluentWait lt WebDriver gt  driver               withTimeout 30  TimeUnit SECONDS               pollingEvery 5  TimeUnit SECONDS               ignoring NoSuchElementException class        WebElement foo   wait until new Function lt WebDriver  WebElement gt              public WebElement apply WebDriver driver                return driver findElement locator                          return  foo       fluentWait function returns your found web element  From the documentation on fluentWait  An implementation of the Wait interface that may have its timeout and polling interval configured on the fly  Each FluentWait instance defines the maximum amount of time to wait for a condition  as well as the frequency with which to check the condition  Furthermore  the user may configure the wait to ignore specific types of exceptions whilst waiting  such as NoSuchElementExceptions when searching for an element on the page  Details you can get here  Usage of fluentWait in your case be the following   WebElement textbox   fluentWait By id  textbox       This approach IMHO better as you do not know exactly how much time to wait and in  polling interval you can set arbitrary timevalue which element presence will be verified through   Regards

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I prefer the following code to wait for 2 seconds   for int i 0  i lt 2  amp  amp  driver findElements By id  textbox    size    0   i        Thread sleep 1000

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Implicitly wait and Thread sleep Both are used for synchronization only  but the difference is we can use Implicitly wait for entire program but Thread sleep will works for that single code only  Here my suggestion is use Implicitly wait once in the program when every time your Webpage will get refreshed means use Thread sleep at that time  it will much Better     Here is My Code    package beckyOwnProjects   import java util concurrent TimeUnit   import org openqa selenium By  import org openqa selenium WebDriver  import org openqa selenium WebElement  import org openqa selenium firefox FirefoxDriver  import org openqa selenium interactions Actions   public class Flip        public static void main String   args  throws InterruptedException           WebDriver driver new FirefoxDriver            driver manage   window   maximize            driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 2  TimeUnit MINUTES           driver get  https   www flipkart com        WebElement ele driver findElement By cssSelector   menu-text fk-inline-block         Actions act new Actions driver       Thread sleep 5000       act moveToElement ele  perform

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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

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Implicit Wait  During Implicit wait if the Web Driver cannot find it immediately because of its availability  the WebDriver will wait for mentioned time and it will not try to find the element again during the specified time period  Once the specified time is over  it will try to search the element once again the last time before throwing exception  The default setting is zero  Once we set a time  the Web Driver waits for the period of the WebDriver object instance   Explicit Wait  There can be instance when a particular element takes more than a minute to load  In that case you definitely not like to set a huge time to Implicit wait  as if you do this your browser will going to wait for the same time for every element  To avoid that situation you can simply put a separate time on the required element only  By following this your browser implicit wait time would be short for every element and it would be large for specific element

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Use Actions -      The user-facing API for emulating complex user gestures     See  Actions pause method

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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 lt Boolean gt     conditions        boolean isLoaded   false      Wait lt WebDriver gt  wait   new FluentWait lt  gt  driver               withTimeout waitTimeInSec  TimeUnit SECONDS               ignoring StaleElementReferenceException class               pollingEvery 2  TimeUnit SECONDS       for  ExpectedCondition lt Boolean gt  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 lt Boolean gt  EXPECT DOC READY STATE   new ExpectedCondition lt Boolean gt           Override     public Boolean apply WebDriver driver            String script    if  typeof window     undefined   amp  amp  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 lt Boolean gt  EXPECT NOT WAITING   new ExpectedCondition lt Boolean gt           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 lt Boolean gt  EXPECT NO SPINNERS   new ExpectedCondition lt Boolean gt           Override     public Boolean apply WebDriver driver            Boolean loaded   true          try           List lt WebElement gt  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

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I like to use custom conditions  Here s some code in Python   def conditions driver       flag   True     ticker   driver find elements by id  textbox       if not ticker          flag   False     return flag      click something to load     self wait   WebDriverWait driver  timeout  self wait until conditions    Whenever you need to wait  you can do it explicitly by checking existance of a certain element  such element may vary from page to page   find elements by id returns list - empty or not  you have just to check

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Sometimes implicit wait fails  saying that an element exists but it really doesn t   The solution is to avoid using driver findElement and to replace it with a custom method that uses an Explicit Wait implicitly  For example   import org openqa selenium NoSuchElementException    public WebElement element By locator       Integer timeoutLimitSeconds   20      WebDriverWait wait   new WebDriverWait driver  timeoutLimitSeconds       try           wait until ExpectedConditions presenceOfElementLocated locator              catch TimeoutException e           throw new NoSuchElementException locator toString               WebElement element   driver findElement locator       return element      There are additional reasons to avoid implicit wait other than sporadic  occasional failures  see this link    You can use this  element  method in the same way as driver findElement   For Example       driver get  http   yoursite html        element By cssSelector  h1 logo    click      If you really want to just wait a few seconds for troubleshooting or some other rare occasion  you can create a pause method similar to what selenium IDE offers       public void pause Integer milliseconds       try           TimeUnit MILLISECONDS sleep milliseconds         catch  InterruptedException e            e printStackTrace

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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

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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  lt different canned or predefined conditions are there gt      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

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Thread Sleep 5000     This did help me but InterruptedException exception needs to be taken care of  So better surround it with try and catch   try       Thread Sleep 5000     catch  InterruptedException e           TODO Auto-generated catch block     e printStackTrace        OR  Add throws declaration   public class myClass       public static void main String   args  throws InterruptedException               I would prefer the second one since one can then use sleep   as many times as it wants and avoid the repetition of try and catch block every time wherever sleep   has been used

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Sometimes implicit wait seems to get overridden and wait time is cut short     eugene polschikov  had good documentation on the whys   I have found in my testing and coding with Selenium 2 that implicit waits are good but occasionally you have to wait explicitly     It is better to avoid directly calling for a thread to sleep  but sometimes there isn t a good way around it   However  there are other Selenium provided wait options that help  waitForPageToLoad and waitForFrameToLoad have proved especially useful

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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

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