[selenium] Selenium IDE - Command to wait for 5 seconds

I´m using the Selenium IDE for Firefox and searching for a wait command. My problem is that I want to test a website with a embedded external map. This external map needs 3-5 seconds to load.

My commands:

open /Page/mysite.html
//Wait Command? (5 seconds)
ClickAndWait link=do something

Before the command clickAndWait add the following code so the script will wait until the specific link to be visible:

   <tr>
        <td>waitForVisible</td>
        <td>link=do something</td>
        <td></td>
    </tr>

The practice of using the wait commands instead of pause is most of the times more efficient and more stable.

This will delay things for 5 seconds:

Command: pause
Target: 5000
Value:

This will delay things for 3 seconds:

Command: pause
Target: 3000
Value:

Documentation:

http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/1.0/reference.html#pause

In Chrome, For "Selenium IDE", I was also struggling that it doesn't pause. It will pause, if you give as below:

• Command: pause
• Target: blank
• Value: 10000

This will pause for 10 seconds.

Your best bet is probably waitForCondition and writing a javascript function that returns true when the map is loaded.

One that I've found works for the site I test is this one:

waitForCondition | selenium.browserbot.getUserWindow().$.active==0 | 20000

Klendathu

The pause command can be used directly in the ide in the html format.

If using java or C you could use Thread.sleep(5000). Time is in milliseconds. Other languages support "sleep 5" or time.sleep(5). you have multiple options for just waiting for a set time.

This will wait until your link has appeared, and then you can click it.

Command: waitForElementPresent Target: link=do something Value:

This will do what you are looking for in C# (WebDriver/Selenium 2.0)

var browser = new FirefoxDriver();
var overallTimeout = Timespan.FromSeconds(10);
var sleepCycle = TimeSpan.FromMiliseconds(50);
var wait = new WebDriverWait(new SystemClock(), browser, overallTimeout, sleepCycle);
var hasTimedOut = wait.Until(_ => /* here goes code that looks for the map */);

And never use Thread.Sleep because it makes your tests unreliable

For those working with ant, I use this to indicate a pause of 5 seconds:

<tr>
    <td>pause</td>
    <td>5000</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>

That is, target: 5000 and value empty. As the reference indicates:

pause(waitTime)

Arguments:

• waitTime - the amount of time to sleep (in milliseconds)

Wait for the specified amount of time (in milliseconds)