Interview Question: When will use WebDriverWait in Selenium?

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Permalink Reply by Anand Singh on December 30, 2020 at 4:09pm

This is the most common question that is asked by any quality assurance company when hiring automation engineers.

We can use webdriverwait when we want to wait until a particular condition is met or the specified time is elapsed. This wait works for a particular instance only & also can throw exceptions when element not found.

Syntax:
//WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(WebDriverRefrence,TimeOut);

For e.g:
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait (driver, 20);
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.VisibilityofElementLocated(By.xpath(""//button[@value='Submit']"")));

However, You can provide more details about this wait like expected condition etc.

WebDriverWait uses the below mentioned expected conditions:

alertIsPresent()
elementSelectionStateToBe()
elementToBeClickable()
elementToBeSelected()
frameToBeAvaliableAndSwitchToIt()
invisibilityOfTheElementLocated()
invisibilityOfElementWithText()
presenceOfAllElementsLocatedBy()
presenceOfElementLocated()
textToBePresentInElement()
textToBePresentInElementLocated()
textToBePresentInElementValue()
titleIs()
titleContains()
visibilityOf()
visibilityOfAllElements()
visibilityOfAllElementsLocatedBy()
visibilityOfElementLocated()

I hope this resolves your query.

Thanks
Anand Singh

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