Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

It can slow my tests down?

This is something that seems very obvious when you stop and think about it, but it is surprising how many people don't.

Something that we all do from time to time in our tests is check that something doesn't exist. For example, you may have a phone book application, and you want to check that clicking on the delete link removes a contact from your phone book and no longer displays that contact on the screen.

The obvious thing to do is delete the contact and then try to find the elements on the screen that were used to display the contact. Let's say that, in our example, we have four elements that we display for a contact:

• Name
• Number
• Type of number
• Address

When we delete a contact, we want to make sure that all ...