What is difference between Implicit wait and Explicit wait in Selenium WebDriver

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There are Implicit and Explicit wait in Selenium WebDriver  What s the difference between them   Kindly share the knowledge about Selenium WebDriver  Please show the real time example with Implicit  amp  Explicit wait

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Check the below links    Implicit Wait  - It instructs the web driver to wait for some time by poll the DOM  Once you declared implicit wait it will be available for the entire life of web driver instance  By default the value will be 0   If you set a longer default  then the behavior will poll the DOM on a periodic basis depending on the browser driver implementation  Explicit Wait   ExpectedConditions - It is the custom one  It will be used if we want the execution to wait for some time until some condition achieved

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Implicit wait --   Implicit waits are basically your way of telling WebDriver the latency that you want to see if specified web element is not present that WebDriver looking for  So in this case  you are telling WebDriver that it should wait 10 seconds in cases of specified element not available on the UI  DOM     Explicit wait--  Explicit waits are intelligent waits that are confined to a particular web element  Using explicit waits you are basically telling  WebDriver at the max it is to wait for X units of time before it gives up

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My Thought    Implicit Wait   If wait is set  it will wait for specified amount of time for each findElement findElements call  It will throw an exception if action is not complete   Explicit Wait   If wait is set  it will wait and move on to next step when the provided condition becomes true else it will throw an exception after waiting for specified time  Explicit wait is applicable only once wherever specified

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Adding another point of view to above mentioned solutions   Implicit Wait  When created  is alive until the WebDriver object dies  And is like common for all operations   Whereas  Explicit wait  can be declared for a particular operation depending upon the webElement behavior  It has the benefit of customizing the polling time and satisfaction of the condition  For example  we declared implicit Wait of 10 secs but an element takes more than that  say 20 seconds and sometimes may appears on 5 secs  so in this scenario  Explicit wait is declared

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Implicit waits are used to provide a default waiting time between each consecutive test step command across the entire test script  Thus  subsequent test step would only execute when the specified amount of time have elapsed after executing the previous test step command   Explicit waits are used to halt the execution till the time a particular condition is met or the maximum time has elapsed  Unlike Implicit waits  Explicit waits are applied for a particular instance only

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Differences   1  Implicit wait is set for the entire duration of the webDriver object  Suppose   you want to wait for a certain duration  let s say 5 seconds before each element or a lot of elements on the webpage load  Now  you wouldn t want to write the same code again and again  Hence  implicit wait  However  if you want to wait for only one element  use explicit   2  You not only need web element to show up but also to be clickable or to satisfy certain other property of web elements  Such kind of flexibility can be provided by explicit wait only  Specially helpful if dynamic data is being loaded on webpage  You can wait for that element to be developed  not just show up on DOM  using explicit wait

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