How to verify an element after the successful page loading?

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Permalink Reply by Hari Prasad on November 8, 2017 at 9:46am

Hi,

I usually use the following method for testing, if an element is present.

public boolean isElementPresent(By element) {
try {
driver.findElement(element);
return true;
} catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
return false;
}
}

The wait time can also be configured on the WebDriver:

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

I don't know any other way to do this. 

Thanks & Regards

  Hari

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Permalink Reply by Lisa on December 19, 2017 at 6:16pm

Thanks Guys.

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Permalink Reply by Anand Singh on April 10, 2020 at 12:37pm

There are many ways to verify this, most of the software testing company uses the following approach, first, you can check if the page is loaded there are a couple to ways like you can verify page title. Also like you asked you can look for any element on the page it could be a welcome message or anything else which is displayed every time you navigate to that page.

For e.g, You login to an application it displays a welcome message. You can assert that if that element using the most commonly used commands in verifying page elements are:

- verifyElementPresent (Returns TRUE if found)
- verifyTextPresent (Returns TRUE if found)

using these function you can build a function in utility classes & call this function whereever you need to verify if element is present before performing any actions.

    public boolean isElementPresent(String locator) {
           try {
                  driver.findElement(By.xpath((locator)));
                 return true;
            } catch (Exception e) {
           return false;
      }}

where locator = xpath of that web element.

I hope this helps.

Thanks

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