Selenium Interview Question 10 – What are the different types of waits available in Selenium WebDriver?

What are the different types of waits available in Selenium WebDriver?

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The following are the different types of waits available in WebDriver:

Waiting mechanism in Selenium and Java can be categorized as below:

More details on waits:

> Thread.sleep()
- – Belongs to Java and will hard wait even after the element is displayed
> Implicit Wait
- – driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait() is a global wait and once declared at the beginning of the program or at the core of the framework level, will be applicable to all the web elements.
> WebDriverWait
- – Waits explicitly for a specific web element
  - WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,5);
  - WebElement element = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated(By.linkText(“Facebook”)));
  - element.click();
> FluentWait
- – Also similar to WebDriverWait with more flexibility in polling time and ignoring exceptions
- //Waiting 30 seconds for an element to be present on the page, checking
- //for its presence once every 5 seconds.
- Wait<WebDriver> wait = new FluentWait<WebDriver>(driver)
  - .withTimeout(30,SECONDS);
  - .pollingEvery(5,SECONDS);
  - .ignoring(NoSuchElementException.class);
- WebElement foo = wait.until(new Function<WebDriver, WebElement>(){
  - public WebElement apply(WedDriver driver){
    - return driver.findElement(By.id(“foo”));
  - }
- });

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