Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

The explicit wait that never finds an element

You have just started working with a development team that already has a Selenium test framework and a series of tests. The tests are reasonably well factored, and there is a decent DriverFactory class that deals with all the driver setup for various browsers. You have been working with this framework for a couple of months and are quite confident with it, but you've never really needed to dig into the internal workings of how the driver object is set up because it has always worked for you.

You now have a requirement to write a test for a new bit of functionality. This functionality is the same as when you log into your site, there should now be an animated GIF displayed while your account details ...